Example sentences of "that [pers pn] have [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked down at her , his face tightening and then , so suddenly that she had no time to read his intentions , he pulled her to him . |
| 2 | Margaret , Louis IX 's queen , was the sister of Eleanor , queen of England , and maintained the closest connection with both Henry III and Edward I. In January 1262 , for instance , one of Henry III 's proctors at Paris , Pierre de Limoges , wrote to Walter de Merton , chancellor of England , to tell him that Queen Margaret was so occupied in the business of negotiations that she had no time to write to him . |
| 3 | The ‘ it ’ was presumably the wound rather than the child , but the woman was upset that she had no time to ask if her child would be all right . |
| 4 | Sam said , ‘ Morning , ’ but Camille glanced at him haughtily and looked away : she considered that she had no time for the working classes , although her mother 's best friend had been brought up here in the olden days before the supermarkets and the middle class had come to compete for space . |
| 5 | What Margaret had n't known were the twin reasons for her decision to immerse herself in work : her need to occupy each waking moment with creative thought so that she had no time to dwell on Marcus 's sudden vitriolic departure from her life , and the struggle for economic survival which was facing the advertising agency where she was employed . |
| 6 | Luke moved so fast that she had no time to back away as he turned her into his arms and held her to him , so close that she could feel the hard outline of his thighs through the damp towel , the heavy steady beat of his heart against her breast . |
| 7 | ‘ I shall explain that you 've no time in your life for such nonsense . |
| 8 | ( c ) In addition , there are so many visitors that you have no time to question them all . |
| 9 | The person was even at pains to point out while the interview was being conducted that they had no time or interest in politics at all . |
| 10 | As such , it should command the attention even of readers who feel that they have no time for the art . |
| 11 | But he added : ‘ If , however , it means that managers are so distracted discussing the process of privatisation that they have no time left to manage , then that would be a most unhappy state of affairs . ’ |
| 12 | The common tendency of all of these people is to be so concerned with manipulating others to meet their needs that they have no time to minister to their partner 's needs . |
| 13 | It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poor , so that … the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting . |
| 14 | The media , major users of public relations material , loves taking the mickey out of public relations which is so busy working on someone else 's image that they have no time for the image of their own industry . |
| 15 | Giving them work to do or organised games — so that they have no time to stand and stare … but we must help them to see , to look , to observe . |
| 16 | It is all too easy for senior executives , especially in times of great pressure on business , to say that they have no time to devote to such activities for the community . |
| 17 | Many people make their retirement the occasion for the ‘ holiday of a lifetime ’ , now that they have the time to indulge themselves . |
| 18 | Providing counsellees can be coaxed into exploring these more sensitive areas , and counsellors feel that they have the time and the ability to cope with any resulting distress , then the eventual outcome can be , more often than not , extremely valuable . |
| 19 | And while I am not so naive as to thing that they have the time or the motivation to sample every title on the Whitbread short list , a good number of these men think they ought to . |
| 20 | Lozano had claimed that the motorcycle was aimed at him , and that he had no time to leap out of the way . |
| 21 | Lozano had claimed that the motorcycle was aimed at him , and that he had no time to leap out of the way . |
| 22 | Fortunately for Napoleon III , Alexander II was so involved for the next six years with the internal reconstruction of his Empire , which the Crimean War had shown to be lamentably weak , that he had no time for a ‘ forward ’ policy in Europe which might thwart French designs . |
| 23 | It struck Nutty that he had no time to take cars for joy-rides any longer , content to flake out in the thick straw in a corner of Firelight 's box after evenings of running and riding and swimming . |
| 24 | The day after that , a man came in and very loudly said that he had no time for God , but he wanted a colouring book for the children of his Greek neighbours , to show his acceptance of them . |
| 25 | Wolfgang replied indignantly that he had no time to write because he was so busy : he got up at six , had his hair dressed , and then composed until nine , after which he gave lessons until lunchtime . |
| 26 | After a spring and summer during which he was so busy with his ordinary duties that he had no time to himself at all — not even his evenings — he returned again to America in the late autumn of 1950 . |
| 27 | Recognizing that he had no time to position his own gun , Howard ducked down , the enemy gun already beginning to flare at one end . |
| 28 | Then he pulled her to him , and kissed her and this time stayed kissing her , and when she did not struggle , he pressed on , and went down to the ground with her and months of longing for her flooded him almost instantly , so that he had no time to swing with her long , cool firmness as he had dreamed of so often , but the instant release in contact with her swept away all his turbulence . |
| 29 | Had n't he admitted it — that he had no time for love ? |