Example sentences of "have the time " in BNC.

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31 ‘ I tell you this , Mr Millet , two or three years ago I would n't have had the time to sit down and chatter about a chap I have n't seen for more than a year .
32 Vendors simply have n't had the time to go off and develop very proprietary offerings , yet .
33 Vendors simply have n't had the time to go off and develop very proprietary offerings , yet .
34 The offering of such guidelines or suggestions does not in any way detract from the professional integrity of the teacher , who must then select what suits him best for his own purposes , but there will be few teachers who will have had the time or the imagination to think of all of them .
35 Erm my , I have n't had the time to really absorb what is in them and obviously the board would feel the same .
36 You have n't had the time . ’
37 ‘ Tomorrow we will look for a house to rent but as I only arrived in London this morning I have not had the time .
38 The man checks my gun as if I 'd had the time and opportunity to fix the outcome , and then rather begrudgingly hands over a very full pair of red fake fur lips .
39 Two five five , the reason why the Executive asked for withdrawal was because it 's moving us a bit too fast along this track , and it 's moving us in a particular direction before we 've had the time to think about whether that 's the right direction to go .
40 Now Paul this is what I 've found out since you see , Paul erm said to them , Why suddenly this ? and he says , Oh we 've actually had them printed for the last two years but we 've never had the time to give them out .
41 Common sense should have told her that he had n't had the time , even if he 'd had the inclination , to arrange that visit from those two men .
42 Or maybe they 've never had the time before .
43 ‘ I have not had the time to devote to business lately , but now that my grandmother is feeling better … ’
44 I 'm sure you have had the time , what you do n't do is make the time because
45 I said , Angela we just have n't had the time .
46 Well , I do n't have up-to-date figures because I have n't had the time to compile them , but I do know — I know it 's twelve years ago , but — in nineteen seventy three if you look at horses that were offered at precisely fifty to one , then you 'd find that there were five hundred and thirty horses offered at those odds during the whole of that season .
47 You simply do not have the time for the ‘ one — pause — two ’ sequences so beloved in basic training .
48 Not only would you not have the time to deal with them all , but you 'd be harassing the public and getting the police a bad name ’ ( FN 23/4/87 , p. 2 ) .
49 The pack-flat furniture had been invented recognising that younger people had become more mobile and often did not have the time to wait around at home for furniture deliveries .
50 In a rapidly changing world , preoccupied by Eastern Europe , the American Administration may not have the time or patience to devote to Israelis and Palestinians .
51 In a rapidly changing world , preoccupied by Eastern Europe , the American Administration may not have the time or patience to devote to Israelis and Palestinians .
52 Mr Murdoch may not have the time or the money to wait .
53 Those transistors are an essential element in West Indian life , keeping everyone who does not have the time or , more likely , the money , to go to a game in touch with what is happening .
54 Once you have obtained some professional advice on weight training you can obtain small weights ( such as hand weights ) quite cheaply for use at home ( if you do not have the time or inclination to travel to a gym to exercise ) .
55 Although in the oases they made gardens , perhaps even carried on other spare-time occupations , they were forbidden to trade and did not have the time to be truck drivers .
56 Mr Fractor turned red but did not have the time to answer because the basket was back beside them .
57 For teenagers there 's Club 16 whilst the children will have the time of their lives under careful supervision at their own ‘ Pirates Club ’ .
58 ‘ I 'd love to but I 'm afraid I just do n't have the time .
59 Those who do no have the time to go to a La Scala performance or are visiting out of season , must make do with going to the theatre museum ; this normally , but not always , includes a trip to the auditorium .
60 There would be dangers in making the enjoyment of the entitlements of citizenship conditional on the performance of the legal or moral duties of citizenship , especially the ‘ voluntary obligations ’ of service to the community , since these entitlements are , it is suggested , too important to be ‘ bought ’ by community service and forfeit for lack of the required track record of active citizenship ; also , it would be unduly intrusive to place these burdens on citizens who should be entitled to a private life , and many of whom — women with young children or dependent relatives to care for , for example — do not have the time or resources to do service to the wider community .
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