Example sentences of "[det] time for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they were not , they switched to cockles ( although it took some time for them to learn the technique of shell penetration ) . |
| 2 | He hoped she would spare some time for him and he promised he would not ask her to act in anything . |
| 3 | ‘ The yacht is a rather slow model of course , so it may take some time for you to die . ’ |
| 4 | She never had much time for me before . ’ |
| 5 | He took them all off and that made Constanza laugh at once , but she did n't have much time for him , she was in love with someone else and he had enlisted . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't think she had much time for him . |
| 7 | ‘ I never had much time for him when he was young , but I never guessed he 'd do anything as rotten as this ! ’ |
| 8 | And they do n't have much time for him . |
| 9 | I had n't got much time for him and he knew it ! |
| 10 | Mind you , with all the services we had to go to , there was n't much time for it either . |
| 11 | I seem to have more time for her than I had with them , and I still do my housework and all the washing . |
| 12 | I 've got more time for him than either our lot or the Americans , ’ he added bitterly . |
| 13 | Although delegation may release more time for you it will cost additional time for others . |
| 14 | In order to restore more time for you to be able to talk to your friends and socialise , an idea has been put forward that Q.T. notes could be prepared in advance of Q.T. day . |
| 15 | Should we schedule more time for it , to allow more talk . |
| 16 | Elections to the 450-seat National Assembly were postponed following the Assembly 's decision on July 5 to extend its five-year mandate by a further year , in order to provide more time for it to study improvements to the one-party state . |
| 17 | But Lisa had less time for her , and was meeting new people , refining a way of living that even a year ago she would have claimed to despise . |
| 18 | It took only slightly less time for her to remember there were no pillows in the sleeping-bag . |
| 19 | He remembers asking Control why he was not also given a Thomas Leavy passport , and being told that , as there was enough time for him to go through normal channels to get one , a legitimate passport was always a safer bet . |
| 20 | You do n't have enough time for me any more . |
| 21 | Theoretically , her biological clock is ticking away , although in practice , there is still enough time for us to split up , find new partners , get to know them and start a family . |
| 22 | Not got enough time for us |
| 23 | In a low and antagonistic frame of mind she accepted that Ace was never going to have any time for her . |
| 24 | Not that I 've any time for him any longer — going on like that when his poor wife was near her time . ’ |
| 25 | as if He 'd have any time for us with the mob of Holy Joes He 's got to see to . |
| 26 | Not surprisingly Ace had little time for her except for her job as fuel technician as the run-up to the race started , but Kate had forgotten the media . |
| 27 | It will take a little time for me to forget the hurt and the disappointment … |
| 28 | It took a little time for him to realise that ‘ Bovril ’ was not a local retailer . |
| 29 | Fowler , who had little time for him , was mildly surprised at his erudition . |
| 30 | If there is , please give up just a little time for them . |