Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I had spare time , but if you 'd If it was decent weather you 'd have to give a hand in the garden at home you see ? |
| 2 | And I 've got to say this , in some cases I had additional time as a shop steward and a convenor , to spend on major problems er affecting the incentive scheme . |
| 3 | After O-levels there was still a month of term to go , a month in which I had ample time to devote myself to my obsession . |
| 4 | I had little time for more than a quick glance round the room . |
| 5 | This reinforced my interest in the subject , but as I soon became involved in postgraduate studies in busy medical , surgical and then paediatric units I had little time to pursue it at that stage . |
| 6 | Amid all these shattering events I had little time to try to find out what had happened to Eric . |
| 7 | However , I had little time to waste on Maté . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's alright , but I do wish I had more time to myself . ’ |
| 9 | In the days when I had more time to spare I would read any book I could lay my hands on and particularly enjoyed anything about foreign lands . |
| 10 | They would wait until I had more time . |
| 11 | I wish I had more time for reading ; it means a lot to me . ’ |
| 12 | I went out to the theatre and the opera a lot , and when I had some time off , I was usually able to get away somewhere . |
| 13 | ‘ I had some time off while I was working in Los Angeles and I was down by the hotel pool . |
| 14 | If I had some time on my own with them I might squeeze something out , but I 'm inhibited in front of the neighbours . |
| 15 | When I was in the U.S. recently for the Walker Cup match I had some time to read their golf magazines , watch television golf and talk with some of the golf club members of my father-in-law 's country club . |
| 16 | Listen if I had enough time I 'll tell you the joke of a life time mate , but I have n't got the time . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't think she had much time for him . |
| 18 | It was lucky for her that she was so busy just then , as she had little time to think during the day , and at night she was so tired that she fell asleep directly she got into bed . |
| 19 | Although she had little time to help organize the newspaper project , as she buzzed around discussing it with friends and jotting down ideas it began to get up steam . |
| 20 | Carrie was hard put to it and she had little time to talk with him , but it was not long before Billy turned up at the cafe eager to see his friend and Carrie directed him into the back room . |
| 21 | An addict of the pipe herself , she had little time for her son — the only one of three to survive — and left his rearing to her own mother . |
| 22 | She had little time to care for herself , and even less time for planning and preparing meals with proper thought and care . |
| 23 | She felt happier about Kathleen now that she knew that she had a champion in Ella , but she had little time to dwell on the O'Neills . |
| 24 | The one , that , even while giving her a verbal warning about her work , he had handed her a very important file to work on — albeit only to ensure she had little time for anything else — must mean that he had received good reports on her ability . |
| 25 | She had little time for the slow-witted and the unenthusiastic , and just as she exaggerated the talents of those she loved , she tended to magnify the defects of those she disliked . |
| 26 | Linda had her own part-time job helping out at Oxfam and listening to infants read at the nearby Primary School , so she had less time in fact than her husband , for Frank had been made redundant from his job in electronics in October . |
| 27 | When she had become a teenager however , she had more time alone , and when she was alone it was so much harder to remember . |
| 28 | The one member of the CPNI who was centrally involved in NICRA was Betty Sinclair ; as secretary of the Belfast trades council she had more time to devote to it than trade-union officials like Banks and Harris . |
| 29 | Since culture did not hammer quite so hard on Mrs Frizzell 's door , she had more time to plan parties . |
| 30 | She had more time for dogs and horses than for children . |