Example sentences of "do [adv] [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 | We do not begrudge this time . |
| 25 | However , some things simply do not work first time out . |
| 26 | However I do not call that time wasted . |
| 27 | The development , administration and interoperability modules do not include run- time versions of Unix . |
| 28 | Feminist psychologists acknowledge that low-status , female-identified traits , like nurturance and sociability , are also important for both sexes ; but they do not spend much time comparing men with women on these traits . |
| 29 | Finding no answers , partly because they do not spend much time looking for them , they assume that it can not be true ; the differences must be ‘ sufficiently deep and of sufficient significance to warrant , at least in a literate society , the continued emphasis on schooling and the acquisition of literacy ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 30 | As a profession , we in medicine do not spend much time thinking about our philosophy . |