Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [verb] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do not resent the time , but I do resent the fact we have not secured anything . |
| 2 | It is true that William Cobbett , born in 1766 , was to write , " I do not remember the time when I did not earn my living " , but he was the son of a moderately successful small farmer in a district where hop growing enabled a decent living from small acreages for a family with three sons to help work it . |
| 3 | I do not have the time to comment on its use in any detail . |
| 4 | I do not have the time to spare to meander through mountains . |
| 5 | And I do not have the time to leave my stall and chase after politicans . |
| 6 | In Britain I do n't think the time is right for it . |
| 7 | When I explain that I read books for a living , people launch into a frenzy of apologetic explanation : ‘ I do n't have the time ! ’ ; |
| 8 | I do n't have the time . ’ |
| 9 | I do n't have the Time Sprout . |
| 10 | We could stand here all day swapping pleasantries , but I do n't have the time . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't have the time to do the job justice , ’ he added . |
| 12 | I am sad I do n't have the time to form a working relationship with him . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't have the time now . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't like the times . |
| 15 | That 's why I do n't need the time off . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't read The Times myself , it was a neighbour brought it round . |
| 17 | I can only imagine that shortly before the excursions a long double headed steam train must have travelled from Shrewsbury to Machynlleth , but I do n't know the times . |
| 18 | I did not have the time for this myself , but clearly , a solution is to lie in wait for this photograph on one of those days when the time of performance does not coincide with the time of sunset ! |
| 19 | I did not have the time for this myself , but clearly , a solution is to lie in wait for this photograph on one of those days when the time of performance does not coincide with the time of sunset ! |
| 20 | But I did n't have the time to do anything except prepare for the election during that year . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I did n't have the time . |
| 22 | I did n't have the time , nor would I have expected to be romanced in a way which might have encroached on either of our careers . |
| 23 | Well Laura and Gemma wanted to make these pasties and she 'd asked me at the weekend and I did n't have the time because I think Irene came down cos I asked Irene whether she 'd looked after , you know I 'm at college until three , and she said yeah I 'll pick them up and er I could n't get her out at then so I promised she could make them so , I said alright you and Gemma make them , anyway they did very well they made them in about fifteen minutes because we had to go and get Emily at four from school , I said hurry up , hurry up put the water in Emily quick stick them together shove them now and put them in the oven |
| 24 | But in those rare flashes when one can shed the present self and all it is in command of I realise that there were really only two occasions when I did personally feel the times on my pulse in such a way that I remember them , and not what I have since reconstructed of them . |
| 25 | ‘ Louise , dear , I 've just noticed the time . |
| 26 | Relationship between trade and between members of state , strictly competition and I said I 'd be the one erm relative case , just to demonstrate the course , Lord , erm I 've usefully used the time this morning to do a , a brief aden am moire of the point , the relevant photographs and the , just in case , if I can just hand that out ena enable me to , to speed through the admission , my Lord if I can just er take the through it and apart , my Lord paragraph five is triggered by an agreement which effects trade between members of states , er in windsurfing the court considered an argument that the causes and the contested agreement which had been struck down by the commission did not forward then article eighty five because they did not have that trade between members of states , the court replied , that argument must be rejected , article eighty five does not require that each and individual cause in the agreement should be capable of affecting into community trade , community law or competition applies to agreements between undertakings which may effect member of states , only if the agreement as a whole is capable of effecting trade is it necessary to exam which other clauses of the agreement which havers there object , let's just say or , or effect the restriction of competition . |
| 27 | Erm my , I have n't had the time to really absorb what is in them and obviously the board would feel the same . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ I have n't got the time to meet girls ’ |
| 30 | I 'm very aware there 's lots of johs I ought to do — I used to be pretty thorough — and there are things I have n't got the time to do . |