Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | Oh I had really good time at my sister 's |
2 | I had so much time to look at him I can hardly believe it still , pushing the trolley , standing up in Nibs 's clothes . |
3 | I had very little time . |
4 | As for the bright lights — I had very little time to enjoy them . |
5 | ‘ I 've little enough time as it is . ’ |
6 | ‘ That 's the point , ’ Joe called back now , ‘ I have to do so much reading I 've hardly any time for writing , at least not the kind I want to do . ’ |
7 | ‘ I have very much looked forward to retirement , and , like many others , I find that I have even less time than before to pursue all that I would like to do , ’ Dr Florin said . |
8 | Malcolm Rifkind , the Defence Secretary , recalls the time she said to him , ‘ I have n't much time today , only enough time to explode and have my way . ’ |
9 | But I can not write much more — I have very little time . |
10 | But I can not write much more — I have very little time . |
11 | ‘ I have so little time . |
12 | ‘ I ca n't see the sense in leaving all the work to you , when I have so much time on my hands . ’ |
13 | I have about 3 times as much glass to look after . |
14 | I have too much time to think then and that , that 's what throws me . |
15 | As Katharine is away at university , she has very little time to ride . |
16 | But in a television interview at the end of 1989 Kylie confessed that the pressures of international stardom meant that now she had precious little time to spare for making her own clothes . |
17 | She had n't last time I , cos we were talking about er when I say talking I do n't mean nastily but the last time I saw Janet I asked after Wendy and she said she was still working and enjoying her job and the children were growing up and she did n't mention any other children so cos her husband works away a lot of the year does n't he ? |
18 | That night she lay awake for a long time , thinking first of her father , recalling many happy childhood memories and wishing fervently , as she had so many times before , that he had not left her so soon . |
19 | To put it another way : when the cat is on heat ( which she has n't been since the vet gave her the unkindest cut of all ) , nevertheless when she was , she had very little time for chasing moths hanging unsubtly round the fridge or cuddling up for a neck scratch . |
20 | Still , over the next hour she had very little time to think about the forthcoming meeting . |
21 | She had too little time . |
22 | You had just enough time to arrive and yet you chose not to do so . ’ |
23 | Good planning gives you thinking time , the chance to anticipate problems and find ways of avoiding those stresses and crises that arise because you have n't enough time to deal with the unexpected . |
24 | ‘ You have far less time than in the middle to adjust your leap . |
25 | If you find you have too much time on your hands , take up a new interest — or even more than one . |
26 | It is most curious to see that you have so much time on your hands that you are able to simply wander about this house bothering others with gratuitous comments . ’ |
27 | If you have so much time to spare , I suggest it might be more profitably spent taking some fresh air . ’ |
28 | ‘ Well , you have more spare time on your hands , Mr Malpass . ’ |
29 | But try and find out if you want to — you have more spare time off than I do . |
30 | The sea was trying to break the ship into pieces , and we had very little time . |