Example sentences of "[vb mod] n't [vb infin] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , we must n't lose time , must we ? ’ |
| 2 | Women presenters who wish to be taken seriously , and Ms. Ford deserves to be , should n't waste time whingeing on at charity lunches . |
| 3 | ‘ We should n't waste time , ’ Lucy said . |
| 4 | ‘ You know , with all these tragedies lining up in wait for us , we really should n't waste time . ’ |
| 5 | He could n't dismiss the images , he could n't stay Time 's hand as it turned page after page of that memory-album until tears flooded his eyes at the scenes recalled : his mother , her brown hair screwed into a bun at the back of her head , taking him to see a house at Edgeworthstown where she said a famous woman writer had lived ; he had n't paid much attention , not being interested in books then , but when he grew older he read Maria Edgeworth 's novels and went again for himself to gaze at her home . |
| 6 | He could n't waste time in useless persuasion . |
| 7 | ‘ As Prime Minister , I could n't waste time having any internal arguments . |
| 8 | Lucy could n't find time to come over for an evening ; the globally significant exhibition was floating on some remote iceberg ; Jeremy had an agent , an opening ; Lucy 's sister was ill and needed her ( Jay recalled Lucy 's exasperated indifference to her sister ) ; the painters were coming . |
| 9 | Significantly , the journalists who could n't find time to come , were those Fleet Street hacks with famous names who write most noisily on the pros and cons of optic fibre for the cabling of Britain . |
| 10 | But not too concerned that he could n't find time to drop into Simon Butcher 's to have his picture taken . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm mad because I had the money for them but I just could n't get time to shop with the hours we 've been working . ’ |
| 12 | Any-we find can be checked against the tyre index here ; we need n't waste time going to the Met Lab for that . |
| 13 | And he had six people to work with who would n't waste time on stupid questions about the baby 's emotional welfare , who saw as clearly as he did the greater fascination in the sheaves of data they had already collected on the child since his birth . |
| 14 | I treated her rotten whilst I was studying like I would n't take time off studying to go and see her or phone her when I saw her as often as I could , every weekend |
| 15 | In fact , if we all had sex as often as we had surveys we would n't have time to answer the surveys in the first place . |
| 16 | Form teacher would n't have time to do that ! |
| 17 | You would n't have time . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Because I would n't have time to think . ’ |
| 19 | Now he would n't have time for either . |
| 20 | And then it was only because I knew I was going to have to leave at the crack of dawn on Friday , and I would n't have time to fix anything up . ’ |
| 21 | It was Penelope , to tell Sophia that she had suddenly been asked to go to dinner at Rupert Stonebird 's that evening , but that she would n't have time to go home and change first . |
| 22 | He would n't have time to save himself ; the splash as he entered the stream would be the most satisfying sound she would hear in a long time . |
| 23 | But you would n't have time to count each individual pot |
| 24 | And she thought , quite calmly : this is n't good enough for me , I shall get further if I 'm pulled , I ca n't waste time in going first . |
| 25 | Wright , who helped Ireland whitewash Ghana in Dublin earlier this month , has landed a new coaching job in his native California and ca n't get time off at such short notice . |
| 26 | ‘ No , ’ Clare said , feeling rage rise ‘ I ca n't take time off . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ You ca n't take time off now , Mr Dee , ’ said Mr Multhrop , horrified . |
| 28 | Leaves any babies with minder — ca n't take time off to bring them up . |
| 29 | I ca n't take time off in lieu cos I have n't got any lieu time to take off |
| 30 | I have got a mortgage and ca n't afford time off . |