Example sentences of "[vb mod] n't [vb infin] the time " in BNC.
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1 | On a more personal level , Riley has said : ‘ The game is the same but the stakes are higher for women – – You need time to reflect , you are alone essentially , and I knew that I could n't give the time and thought to bringing up children or caring for another person on an intimate level . |
2 | Eventually she would train them to produce the kinds of designs she favoured , but for the moment , until she had her first collection down on paper , quite frankly she could n't spare the time . |
3 | Ironically , Fernandez was a brilliant lobbyist in Washington for more federal funds for New York schools , and he 'll be sorely missed , but he could n't find the time to play the politics of his own backyard . |
4 | They 'd planned a trip to Warwick Castle , but she could n't get the time off . |
5 | I 'd wanted Doug to be with me , but he could n't get the time off . |
6 | Unfortunately for the CEGB , it could n't seize the time and push ahead as fast with its plans as it wanted . |
7 | I could n't afford the time . |
8 | ‘ I could n't afford the time , even if I had the money , ’ says Robyn . |
9 | And the revenue got mean and decided it could n't afford the time of serving officers and it left pre-retirement council and other bodies with a gap to fill er the only other people who are er professional if you like , who could fill it , would be accountants and they were n't available . |
10 | Staff said they could n't afford the time to supervise him constantly.But although it may have been convenient to social workers to restrain a stroke victim in a trolley , Peter Chandler has one word to describe the experience : |
11 | Mortimer had emptied his Browning by now , and could n't risk the time to reload . |
12 | ‘ Would n't have the time for it , Vicky . ’ |
13 | So I settled for the fact that you ca n't devote the time which I feel you would need to give to the job . |
14 | When you ca n't do the time , do n't do the crime turn to criminology you must be prepared to accept the punishment when they get caught |
15 | In the old films erm the saying was from one conduct to another , ‘ Do n't do the crime if you ca n't do the time . ’ |
16 | Kovacs finishes off by saying , — So what if you ca n't tell the time . |
17 | Just in case you ca n't tell the time . |
18 | Mr Foggerty was agreeably surprised , but when Nutty reminded him of the standard required , he relapsed into grim gloom and stood on the side of the bath in his white T-shirt and jeans looking at his watch and saying , ‘ I ca n't spare the time to do this three nights a week for the next year , which is what is required . |
19 | I wo n't do defended cases because I ca n't spare the time , not because I do n't feel competent . |
20 | Yet even if there is a little textural variety in the CD as a whole , in performances as polished as these you ca n't begrudge the time spent listening to such uniformly lovely music — it just does n't take to end-to-end listening . |
21 | Yeah that 's right no reflection on you it 's just that I 'm thinking oh I ca I just ca n't see the time when I would ever drive through a gap like that that confidently that 's all . |
22 | you know trouble is it 's , it 's either May weekend or it 's I ca n't get the time off |
23 | I mean she might suddenly find that she ca n't get the time off the hotel , or she changes her mind , I do n't know . |
24 | Because if you 're running you wo n't have the time or energy to soak up more than the two pages of essential last-minute information starting on page 44 . |
25 | ‘ But I wo n't have the time or the opportunity again . ’ |
26 | Most of you wo n't remember the time , and I certainly do n't , some of you will , you 'll be familiar with the er , healing accounts , seeing pictures on , er either in magazines or on the television news , in in old news reels , of that time when Neville Chamberlain stepped out of an aeroplane , and he 's just been to Germany and , and had a meeting with Hitler . |