Example sentences of "[pers pn] had little time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had little time for more than a quick glance round the room . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Amid all these shattering events I had little time to try to find out what had happened to Eric . |
| 4 | However , I had little time to waste on Maté . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She had little time to care for herself , and even less time for planning and preparing meals with proper thought and care . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Indeed , we were so anxious to get the figures right that we had little time to spend explaining why what we proposed was morally necessary . |
| 14 | It meant however that we had little time to relate our studies at any deep level to Buddhism , but it seemed unanswerable that people must have a deep understanding of their own faith before they can go on to study that of other people . |
| 15 | With the exception of Hitchcock , whom they worshipped , they had little time for accepted and acclaimed directors , finding more value in the more commercial movies of , for instance , Howard Hawks and Raoul Walsh . |
| 16 | But , after that , they had little time to spend together , little to say to one another . |
| 17 | For a while they made so much work for the bailiffs that they had little time to harass the Nonconformists . |
| 18 | Also he had little time . |
| 19 | He had little time to see them , to know them ; like others ' children , they were left to a nurse and Mrs Gracie . |
| 20 | In place of God-consciousness , for which he had little time , he wanted to put on the one hand the revelation made in Jesus and recoverable through the historical study of the New Testament , and on the other the moral and spiritual response to Jesus which issues in Christian living and acting . |
| 21 | He had little time for the confusion that the Council had appeared to generate in many parts of the Church . |
| 22 | After leaving the Institute , where he retained a small laboratory which he visited at weekends , Butler 's administrative duties were so heavy that he had little time for mycological research . |
| 23 | In particular , like Macaulay two centuries later , he had little time for the Brahmins and their Sanskrit learning : |
| 24 | He had little time for flippancy or gossip , let alone the nostalgic ramblings of an ex-employee . |
| 25 | In any event he had little time to give careful immediate consideration to the letter ; he merely wrote a short reply pressing Balfour to reconsider his position . |