Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [vb infin] [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ 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 . |
2 | But he did not waste much time . |
3 | RICHIE did not waste any time in responding to Patrick 's appeal . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | She revelled in the benefits of being married to the Queen 's second son and did not spend enough time on her duties . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Ehrich and Koehler ( 1975 ) also produced a script recognition system which did not use real time information in its coding scheme , although they did use some sequence information . |
11 | In his hurry to return to Italy the magistrate did not allow sufficient time for the necessary light exposure and , despite protests from the technicians , rushed off with the recording . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | If the Policyholder was unaware of the faulty roof or did not have reasonable time in which to carry out repairs , then it is in order to deal with the claim for the damage to the internal decorations and/or contents but not the repairs to the roof , which the Policyholder should have carried out as soon as possible . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | But she did n't have to ask : Comrade Andrew did not have much time for Jasper . |
17 | She did not have much time and believed it would have saved his job . |
18 | We did not have much time to smarten up the old girl and it took much hard work to soften the ravages of time . |
19 | This time no expression came over their faces and he knew they did not have much time to live . |
20 | Soon , however , she did not have enough time to do this although someone had to relieve the poor beast , and the fresh creamy milk often sat in a gleaming churn in the corner of the kitchen untouched until it went rancid and had to be thrown away . |
21 | It is important , because , as the hon. Member said , there have been earlier opportunities for such legislation — the Government could have chosen to include a measure in their order of business , and a private Member once introduced a Bill , but unfortunately did not have enough time to secure its progress . |
22 | Old Mother Jacobsen knew that she did not have unlimited time to tell the story of Marie Grubbe to Elisabeth Danziger ; Elisabeth would stay for an hour and then be on her way . |
23 | Clarac did not hesitate this time . |
24 | Martin did n't shout this time . |
25 | It did n't leave much time for going out to play , and I resented it a great deal . |
26 | During the first year we probably did n't give enough time to training . |
27 | I do n't know why I did n't go that time . |
28 | Perhaps their orders did n't cover lunatic Time Lord jugglers . |
29 | I did n't waste much time trying to see what Filmer did or where he went , because I 'd quickly discovered that the Westin Hotel was sitting over an entrance to a subterranean shopping mall that stretched like a rabbit warren in all directions . |
30 | ‘ Hell , Pierre , you did n't waste much time , ’ D'Arcy observed . |