Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] not [verb] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I started not having much time for the French and the Walloons , which is to say the French-speaking Belgians , when I found myself among them in 1944 . |
| 2 | However I do not call that time wasted . |
| 3 | I am not quite sure who it was I sat next to because I am such a slow eater that I did not have much time for conversation . |
| 4 | I have been on to-day , so I have not had much time , I have wrote to G. Titman to-night . |
| 5 | ‘ I am devastated by what is going on — I have not got much time left and I want to spend it here , ’ said Gladys , who got the Queen 's Medal for her work with the Women 's Royal Voluntary Service . |
| 6 | So if you went much too fast on the steeplechase , you do not have extra time on phase C. Therefore , it is important to get the timing right . |
| 7 | ‘ The first chapter was enough , ’ snapped Mrs Frizzell indignantly , glad that she did not have to explain that she did not give much time to reading . |
| 8 | She always had so many places to go and so many people who wanted to see her that he felt cruelly his own stolid boringness , and was not surprised that she did not spend more time with him . |
| 9 | She did not have much time and believed it would have saved his job . |
| 10 | Soon , however , she did not have enough time to do this although someone had to relieve the poor beast , and the fresh creamy milk often sat in a gleaming churn in the corner of the kitchen untouched until it went rancid and had to be thrown away . |
| 11 | Old Mother Jacobsen knew that she did not have unlimited time to tell the story of Marie Grubbe to Elisabeth Danziger ; Elisabeth would stay for an hour and then be on her way . |
| 12 | However , You 've not got much time to get your teams in to me . |
| 13 | We did not have much time to smarten up the old girl and it took much hard work to soften the ravages of time . |
| 14 | We do not begrudge this time . |
| 15 | It is probable that we ask permission to use certain shots in the production , and as we have not got much time before the edit , I wonder if you could let us have 1″ PAL copies of these three films ? |
| 16 | This time no expression came over their faces and he knew they did not have much time to live . |
| 17 | As we noted before , one of the prime concerns of teachers is that they do not have enough time to carry out the day-to-day tasks and responsibilities of their jobs to their own satisfaction , let alone to invest in enhancing their own skills , or reflecting on their roles and priorities , to anything like the extent which they would like . |
| 18 | Feminist psychologists acknowledge that low-status , female-identified traits , like nurturance and sociability , are also important for both sexes ; but they do not spend much time comparing men with women on these traits . |
| 19 | Finding no answers , partly because they do not spend much time looking for them , they assume that it can not be true ; the differences must be ‘ sufficiently deep and of sufficient significance to warrant , at least in a literate society , the continued emphasis on schooling and the acquisition of literacy ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 20 | In September 1989 Chadli announced the postponement of local elections , originally scheduled for December , following complaints from the opposition parties that they had not had enough time to prepare for them . |
| 21 | According to a radio commentary on Aug. 7 , there were complaints from the opposition that they had not had enough time to campaign effectively , and instances were cited of bullying by MPRP election supervisors . |
| 22 | But he did not waste much time . |
| 23 | There was , indeed , never a day , except when he was away on short holidays , during which he did not spend some time in her company , from the time of their first association in 1919 until her death in 1951 . |
| 24 | Ruling that the UK had breached international agreements , the judges dismissed the British government 's contention that it had not had enough time to meet standards set in 1975 . |
| 25 | It had not left much time to arrange for a reception committee . |
| 26 | He had not had much time or energy to expend on such matters , and was quite happy to cover familiar , or at least already prepared , ground . |
| 27 | Officials are already concerned he does not spend enough time there to qualify for the 12 per cent tax laws . |
| 28 | Insp Butler 's hobbies are tracing family trees and watching cricket , although he admits nowadays he does not get much time for either . |
| 29 | ‘ No , he 's not got much time for anything but work . |