Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remembered also the time we finally accepted that British Council invitation and went to give a poetry reading in Madrid . |
| 2 | ‘ As you know , I 'm an adequate , plain cook , but I 've neither the time nor the talent to produce a coq au vin like this one : it was produced by my neighbour , Mrs Neville , who is seventy-five years old and runs a thriving emergency cooking , house-sitting and general crisis-management service for the neighbourhood . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I have neither the time nor the inclination to play stupid games , ’ he snapped . |
| 4 | All I can do is let you know nearer the time if this is the case . |
| 5 | Judy Bathurst studied art as a student at Leeds University , but it was not until ten years ago , when she went to live in Tuscany , that she found both the time and the inspiration to develop her talent . |
| 6 | But as times became more difficult with the passing years I suppose she had neither the time nor the inclination to play music . |
| 7 | No doubt the wall was lower at some point — down at the edge of the parkland , perhaps — but she had neither the time nor the inclination to find out . |
| 8 | To be as fair to her as is possible , it can at least be said that the work which she had plagiarized on her behalf ( since she had neither the time nor the inclination to copy it herself ) was generally of good standard . |
| 9 | The first is the relationship ; as we have seen , people are only prepared to talk openly to those who they feel are genuinely concerned , and who have both the time and the interest to understand . |
| 10 | They whiled away the time , Ranulf playing dice against himself , the only time he ever lost . |
| 11 | These new men showed they had neither the time nor the political inclination to instigate a programme of Whig reform ; indeed , partly reacting against the Jacobite challenge of 1715 , they introduced a number of measures designed to ensure their and the new dynasty 's political security which seemed to represent an abandonment of what Whiggery had traditionally stood for . |
| 12 | When learners are caught up in communication , concerned with making meaning , they have neither the time nor indeed the inclination to monitor their performance , which in consequence reveals what they have acquired without , as it were , the artificial additives of learning . |
| 13 | Although research economists usually make their programs available to others , they have neither the time nor the resources to document and support them properly . |
| 14 | He was mentioned in despatches , for having displayed the same casual courage his companions had remarked on before the war as he pursued his favourite pastime of mountaineering ( he had neither the time nor patience for golf and was reckoned by devotees to be only a fair-weather fisherman ) . |
| 15 | Although he had neither the time nor the opportunity to continue with his verse drama , the subject was never far from his mind . |
| 16 | He whiled away the time by contemplating the stained glass lancet windows behind the preacher and the holy table . |