Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | I have n't the time to go traipsing around art galleries . |
| 3 | ‘ I have n't the time for romance , ’ he said shortly . |
| 4 | ‘ Sorry , ’ she said , ‘ but I have n't the time . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I have n't the time . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I have neither the time nor the inclination to play stupid games , ’ he snapped . |
| 7 | Berthe Weill protested that she could not leave the gallery for the moment , she had n't the time , there were all the guests to look after . |
| 8 | But as times became more difficult with the passing years I suppose she had neither the time nor the inclination to play music . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | You have n't the time for lengthy character analysis or exquisite evocations of place . |
| 13 | He comes to the door just like that ; no servants , no security phone , and that by itself gives you the green light ; you have n't the time for any finessing so you just kick him in the balls and follow him inside as he collapses , foetal on the floor . |
| 14 | Unfortunately you have n't the time , money or resources to do all the things you want to . |
| 15 | But do n't despair if you have n't the time to volunteer because some of the most important ways to be more ‘ Green ’ are concerned with your attitude to what you buy at home , in the office , for the kids , for friends , to eat etc … |
| 16 | Do n't get so bogged down in the trivia of life you have n't the time or inclination to branch out and see what 's on offer . |
| 17 | We have n't the time to argue . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ And I 've been stung by nettles , ’ he said , injured , and pretended not to hear Dorrainge who said it was a mistake to pamper nettle stings , and they had n't the time to soothe people 's silly imagined injuries . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Although research economists usually make their programs available to others , they have neither the time nor the resources to document and support them properly . |
| 22 | The police say they have n't the time or resources to worry about hashish . |
| 23 | They have n't the time or the engergy left to provide a sporting outlet for them . |
| 24 | They have not the time for speech training , and are perhaps afraid to embarrass you , and by criticising your speech to add to your shyness in discussion . |
| 25 | ‘ He says he has n't the time to do a good job . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | Although he had neither the time nor the opportunity to continue with his verse drama , the subject was never far from his mind . |
| 28 | For the first time in all his journeys he found a room that was completely empty , but he had n't the time to investigate it , or any of the others he entered . |