Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] 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 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 .
6 And I did n't have time to pussyfoot around .
7 Wo n't have time to appetite .
8 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 . ’
9 ‘ 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 . ’
10 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 .
11 ‘ I do n't have time for lunch , ’ said Sara .
12 Defries did n't have time for talk .
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