Example sentences of "have [verb] [art] time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this country , in its short and violent history , has had no time to develop a taste for such decadent indulgences . |
| 2 | Before the visitor has had the time to see the baptistery ruins , the plaques or the crucifix he will have spent time near the door . |
| 3 | A COMPUTER system introduced by Japan 's Ministry of Health has cut the time taken to match a kidney donor with the most suitable recipient from several hours to three minutes . |
| 4 | They immediately brighten , become more animated and are often quite grateful that someone has taken the time to listen to them . |
| 5 | She 'd had no time to examine her reaction to this revelation any further , however , for he had proceeded to cut across her thoughts . |
| 6 | He had left suddenly while Rachel had been on leave and on her return she 'd been told that another officer had been appointed but she 'd had no time to find out anything about him . |
| 7 | I 'd been so busy I 'd had no time to think . |
| 8 | As far as she could remember they 'd spent the time discussing potential ideas for his proposed advertising campaign . |
| 9 | ‘ If it had n't gone through this time , I would have had no time left in my life to enter the ministry I so dearly want to join . |
| 10 | ‘ I tell you this , Mr Millet , two or three years ago I would n't have had the time to sit down and chatter about a chap I have n't seen for more than a year . |
| 11 | If Yuri Rudakov , undressing in the front bedroom of their bungalow , had not been so tired , he would have taken the time to admire the new nightdress that his wife wore as she sat against the pillows and turned the pages of a picture magazine . |
| 12 | ‘ The cynics are bound to say that the solicitor would have to recover the time spent on an apparently free comprehensive audit by undertaking some recommendations , ’ said . |
| 13 | And being the one who was taking the raw material and bashing it into the records I had to pick a time to leave where it was n't going to be a huge blow to everybody else . |
| 14 | She had previously limited her expression of that disapproval to hints , and to glancing remarks ; now , clearly , she had decided the time had come to be more open . |
| 15 | Yes you 've got no time to do it . |
| 16 | She had thought the time had gone when thoughts of Jake could upset her . |
| 17 | He had had no time to confer with his client and only twelve hours to study the charges . |
| 18 | The chairman was clearly annoyed at Maradona 's claim that he had had no time to notify him on Monday before returning to Argentina for the friendly against Denmark . |
| 19 | He had had no time to acquaint himself with his fief , twice seen , and well enough served by its own . |
| 20 | The author recalls an able Treasury minister who , after resignation , became a convinced and cogent parliamentary reformer , explaining that as a minister he had had no time to work out this aspect of policy and therefore , since the Treasury was opposed to more specialist committees of the House of Commons , he used the brief they provided and he had been a formidable opponent of these reforms at the Cabinet Committee level . |
| 21 | He had only been in the cellar for about one minute when the ghost appeared and he had had no time to doze . |
| 22 | Prime Minister Jan Olszewski said that his newly-formed government had had no time to prepare its own budget , and asked parliament " with a heavy heart and a true sense of responsibility " to accept the measures before it . |
| 23 | Ventris died before he had had the time to turn his attentions to Linear A , about which he is reported to have had some initial ideas . |
| 24 | ‘ How could I possibly tell its sex since , as you know very well , I 've had no time to examine it ? |
| 25 | Two five five , the reason why the Executive asked for withdrawal was because it 's moving us a bit too fast along this track , and it 's moving us in a particular direction before we 've had the time to think about whether that 's the right direction to go . |
| 26 | Five minutes later Tony and I were trudging through deep snow , wishing we had spared the time to search out the snow shoes and wondering whether there had ever been a previous occasion in Iceland when the approach of a car had been heralded by walkers . |
| 27 | They had spent the time wandering round the Reserve , watching the widgeon ducks and other wildfowl paddling in the lagoon close to the sea . |
| 28 | Though he 'd spoken with Klein daily there was no sign of a commission yet , so he had spent the time re-educating himself . |
| 29 | Isabel wondered when fitzAlan had found the time to pack up the garments . |
| 30 | No less important , the choice of 2nd May had left no time to consult them beforehand and they resented what appeared to be an arbitrary order . |