Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The surface of the etch-resist ink might wash off in the developer but a layer of ink can still be left on the board , because the UV light has not had enough time to penetrate all the way through the resist . |
| 2 | Politics has also meant little time for hobbies like reading , music , badminton and cricket . |
| 3 | Now what happens when he has n't done any time at all and time is just starting off . |
| 4 | He has n't got much time left to come up with a challenge for 1992 . |
| 5 | she has n't got enough time |
| 6 | Scotland has never had much time for earthquakes : the national football team already has a monopoly on disasters . |
| 7 | I 've had two or three of them buggers but I think I 'd better go this time as I ca n't get no more . |
| 8 | One student looking still had some time to go before his grant aid ended . |
| 9 | This morning 's episode at the flat had shaken her up quite a bit , and she needed desperately to have some time to herself in quiet surroundings . |
| 10 | I started not having much time for the French and the Walloons , which is to say the French-speaking Belgians , when I found myself among them in 1944 . |
| 11 | The VWA , one of five Dutch sado-masochism associations , is recommending stricter fire safety regulations because ‘ people who are handcuffed or tied up need more time to get out of a building ’ . |
| 12 | But we felt better organised this time and again we felt very pleased with it as still only our second attempt . |
| 13 | He was working for Westminster council , an authority which went out to tender some time ago . |
| 14 | If you spend more than 10 per cent of your time travelling examine your priorities carefully to see how to reduce this time loss |
| 15 | With a six-inch reach advantage and making better use this time of his wicked left jab , Eubank was hoping to become the first to stop Gimenez in 45 fights . |
| 16 | ‘ The first chapter was enough , ’ snapped Mrs Frizzell indignantly , glad that she did not have to explain that she did not give much time to reading . |
| 17 | But he did not waste much time . |
| 18 | RICHIE did not waste any time in responding to Patrick 's appeal . |
| 19 | She always had so many places to go and so many people who wanted to see her that he felt cruelly his own stolid boringness , and was not surprised that she did not spend more time with him . |
| 20 | She revelled in the benefits of being married to the Queen 's second son and did not spend enough time on her duties . |
| 21 | They were ill-informed in the sense that the conceptual basis for understanding such meaning was not carefully theorised , as well as in the more obvious sense that the travellers often simply did not know the language and did not spend enough time living in a particular society . |
| 22 | He tried to persuade his master to be stricter with the children , and was always complaining that Heathcliff and Catherine did not spend enough time studying the Bible or attending church services . |
| 23 | There was , indeed , never a day , except when he was away on short holidays , during which he did not spend some time in her company , from the time of their first association in 1919 until her death in 1951 . |
| 24 | I would not be so ungallant as to doubt the word of the hon. Member for West Bromwich , East today , but given the pressure that Labour Members placed on that Bill , a serious question mark would hang over any Labour Secretary of State who did not give way to pressure regarding the timetabling of a public inquiry procedure and who did not take some time to allow the result to be published or deliberated on . |
| 25 | The Israeli Prime Minister , Itzhak Shamir , who was visiting Washington at the time the invitations were sent out , reacted angrily , stating that a Dec. 4 starting date did not allow enough time for Israel to prepare . |
| 26 | Mrs Thatcher did not have much time for the body and abolished it after the election victory in 1983 — an example perhaps of her dislike for so-called ‘ professional ’ advice that purports to be above party politics . |
| 27 | I am not quite sure who it was I sat next to because I am such a slow eater that I did not have much time for conversation . |
| 28 | But she did n't have to ask : Comrade Andrew did not have much time for Jasper . |
| 29 | She did not have much time and believed it would have saved his job . |
| 30 | We did not have much time to smarten up the old girl and it took much hard work to soften the ravages of time . |