Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [verb] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rarely seemed either to have the time or the inclination to return to Brougham . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd love to but I 'm afraid I just do n't have the time . |
| 3 | Myth no. 2 : exercising takes too much time Do you have a hectic timetable and feel you just do n't have the time to exercise ? |
| 4 | I 'm afraid I just did n't realise the time . |
| 5 | I think you find it with most West Indian parents … it was n't so much lack of enthusiasm , they just did n't have the time . |
| 6 | It struck me as wonderful stuff , so I got in touch and tried to get them to do the music for Doctor Who , but they just did n't have the time . |
| 7 | He judged five minutes was long enough for that , a lifetime when you are five , and since he had just learned how to tell the time he watched the clock over her shoulder . |
| 8 | and er I just have n't it 's like erm I just have n't put the time in |
| 9 | Get a definition in , get an application in , get empirical evidence in , get measurement problems in erm , get sort of contentious issues type of , or criticisms in erm , do n't draw , do n't do diagrams as they 're probably , the only , the only principal difference between this and an essay , you just have n't got the time , right , so do n't be tempted , unless you can do a very quick diagram that sum , sums it up . |
| 10 | I just have n't got the time , the energy or the money . |
| 11 | I said , Angela we just have n't had the time . |
| 12 | If you want to do it you have n't really got you probably have n't got the time . |
| 13 | Lord Mayor , I really do not have the time to speculate in detail why Councillor has made this mistake . |
| 14 | Perhaps it 's got to do with the fact that I have er four children , I really do not have the time to sit down and read papers in depth . |
| 15 | Erm , specialist newspapers , I really do n't expect the Times erm , to have any effect on the F T's sale . |
| 16 | ‘ I really do n't have the time , I 'm afraid . |
| 17 | But I really do n't have the time right now . |
| 18 | I do n't know whether they they , I suppose they really did n't have the time . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I really have n't got the time to start picking up everybody 's cleaning , I 'd better wear my blue suit … |
| 21 | Once they 've completed their trip all they want to do is head off back home and they simply do n't devote the time , energy and money on clearing up . |
| 22 | Changing working habits and increased competition for leisure time mean that many people feel they simply do n't have the time any more . |
| 23 | One would like very often to have more erm people involved in decision making , but they simply do n't have the time to inform themselves and one or two experiments in the kind of democracy you might Brian might have had in mind , came to horrible grief where decisions were taken simply uninformed and where the small number of people present who were informed were n't able to persuade the majority and the history of education is littered with them most unfortunate examples of this . |
| 24 | You simply do not have the time for the ‘ one — pause — two ’ sequences so beloved in basic training . |
| 25 | This failing , it is suggested , is often compounded by the use of obscure , abstract terminology which teachers simply do not have the time ( even if they have the inclination ) to penetrate . |
| 26 | Simply did n't have the time to make soap-opera conversation over the fence . |
| 27 | I should hate anyone to think that I am , ’ she said , looking around her at us all and smiling again , ‘ that I am in the business of catering exclusively for prostitutes , tarts working girls , slags bitches , cunts , whores , studs , pimps , rent boys , butches , nellies , queens , masseurs , escorts , one-night stands , ex-models , ex-policemen , ex-Armed Forces , ex-boxers , security guards , tennis instructors , so-called businessmen , tourists and those poor unfortunates who simply come here to pass the time and meanwhile do some shopping ; oh , no , let it never be said ! |
| 28 | Vendors simply have n't had the time to go off and develop very proprietary offerings , yet . |
| 29 | Vendors simply have n't had the time to go off and develop very proprietary offerings , yet . |
| 30 | Well , I mean , it 's a sticky wicket for them anyway politically and I suspect as with a lot of legislation quite recently they simply have n't spent the time in committee and in consultation to iron out the details and they 've come unstuck when it 's come into the public domain and it 's been easy for people to throw up the paradoxes that are coming up from the legislation , the moral paradoxes . |