Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] time [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly the seller under a contract of sale might undertake to use best endeavours to deliver the goods on time : The Sellers will use their best endeavours to secure delivery of the goods on the estimated delivery dates from time to time furnished , but they do not guarantee time of delivery . |
| 2 | Most hobbies cost some money , some a great deal , why not occupy time with machine knitting ? |
| 3 | She met Bill coming back up the steps , and they did not waste time on speech . |
| 4 | He apologized and explained , but she did not waste time in argument . |
| 5 | In some ways I wish I had something to fall back on but I wanted to play guitar in a band , not waste time at university . ’ |
| 6 | But he are n't got time at work see ? |
| 7 | Curve have n't got time for apathy — there 's got to be some attitude to your music . ’ |
| 8 | Er have n't got time for tea |
| 9 | I have n't got time before school , Adrian thought . |
| 10 | ACET volunteers work as part of a team and provide help in many different ways to ensure that people do n't spend time in hospital unnecessarily . |
| 11 | The evening before he had procured from the local library a copy of Gerald Seymour-Strachey 's essay in autobiography , but a quick flick through the index had assured him there was no mention of Walter Machin , and he had n't had time to bone up on the details of the man himself 's career . |
| 12 | And I did n't have time to pussyfoot around . |
| 13 | Wo n't have time to appetite . |
| 14 | Firstly because editors and journalists and so forth get an awful lot of them , and do n't have time to pore over them , and secondly because they pick them up , they sort of come in , they look at it and say , ‘ I ca n't see how I can use this . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm only spoiling you like this , ’ lied my mother , ‘ because when you 've got a home of your own you wo n't have time for breakfast in bed . ’ |
| 16 | You need a certain kind of front to breeze in from an alternative reality in the back of a time-travelling Volvo and sit in a Presley City bar , with a two-headed nipper on your lap , complaining to a private dick from the twenty-fifth century that you do n't have time for nonsense . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't have time for lunch , ’ said Sara . |
| 18 | Defries did n't have time for talk . |