Example sentences of "have time [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A person who listens shows that he or she has time for others .
2 But 30-year-old Rice has time in hand to erase both marks — then there really will be no doubt about who is the greatest .
3 No doubt after six days of living in a trench , the dirt would have had time to grime itself in .
4 Yet another , fortunately quite rare , follows you around when it sees secateurs in your hands and drops a few eggs into the soft pith of the stem when you make a cut , before the cut wound has had time to callus and heal itself — another reason why you should always try to confine cutting to a fine dry day .
5 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 .
6 Castlerock 's 1,500 residents , the majority of them Protestants , have never had time for sectarianism and division .
7 Those with fluctuating dementia do have times of insight .
8 ‘ I do n't have time for games , Lori .
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 ‘ I do n't have time for lunch , ’ said Sara .
11 Did they have time for dalliance ?
12 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 .
13 Do you have time for coffee or something ? ’
14 I mean did you ever have time for dances , and going to the pictures and that kind of thing , I mean you must have found some time ?
15 Defries did n't have time for talk .
16 I personally do not have time for delays in this operation , and my approach has been ratified at the highest levels .
17 And I did n't have time to pussyfoot around .
18 Wo n't have time to appetite .
19 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 . ’
20 It saves us having time off work for river searching .
21 A recent study revealed that children who smoke are 3 times more likely to have time off school [ 10 ] .
22 The husband to have time off work to look after the children ,
23 There are things certain things I 'm committed to and to have time off means I still got to be able to do those things .
24 This is ridiculous I 'm not going to have time for lunch if I do n't go now …
25 ‘ She ought to have time for preparation before the police burst in on her . ’
26 To say prayers in the Catholic way of worship , and feed one 's soul on frequent sacraments , and practise a little fasting , and use the sacrament of confession , and study Marcion and the early Church and the Bible , and to have time for quietness and silence and meditation — that was what he looked for at this moment of his life .
27 There are some who never come to our House of Prayer for various reasons — prayer is not important in their lives , work or social life is more important , people who feel that they can go it alone with no need for God , others who feel that life is too full to have time for God , some who think that religion is a waste of time , and there are people , both young and old , who are intimidated by their friends .
28 ‘ I was determined to have time with Maisie . ’
29 And he said , it 's most unlike me , as you probably know , but he said I could n't tell you the last time I had time off work , but he said , I have n't been into the office since th cos I 've been feeling really bad !
30 ‘ I never had time for fun when I was your age !
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