Example sentences of "do n't have time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't have time for lunch , ’ said Sara . |
| 2 | But really , I think , it 's the case that , in this job , you do n't have time to develop obsessions , what with the insane turnover , and all the incentives to pluralism . |
| 3 | Politicians do n't have time to read screeds , so you have to give them short , pithy things to look at , We were doing all this anyway , of course , but the chaps at Barton , including Andy , are working on it much more effectively since we were able to say definitely that the DTI civil servants were agin them . |
| 4 | ‘ The good ones do n't have time for long drunken lunches , and you get better results by getting them to give you and the client a sandwich in a bar at six p.m . |
| 5 | ‘ See , she 's an usherette now , so she do n't have time for me no more . ’ |
| 6 | I feel there are a lot more important things in life than looking good , and in countries where life is harder you do n't have time to worry about such things , you 're too busy working or preparing the next meal . |
| 7 | That 's why I have a manager and people to do things for me , because some things I just do n't have time to do myself . |
| 8 | They do n't have time to verify stuff , a lot of the time they just put it out and it turns out to be false . |
| 9 | When the weather turns on you like that , you do n't have time to stop and curse the fact you 're missing the view . |
| 10 | As I write , I can almost hear the protests of those with families to feed — ‘ It 's the one time we can all sit down together ’ or ‘ I do n't have time to cook several different meals each evening ’ . |
| 11 | I do n't have time for all this rubbish . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't have time , sir . ’ |
| 13 | Only the truly virtuous strip their tack and clean it every time it 's used — the rest of us simply do n't have time . |
| 14 | We do n't have time for the sort of substantive exchanges we would like . |
| 15 | If you do n't have time then simply write to the Managing Director . |
| 16 | John believes that women of the 90's do n't have time to spend hours fussing with their hair . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't have time to argue with you now . |
| 18 | I hope that you may now be encouraged to experiment with weaving , and it may help you to use up those oddments of hand knitting yarn which you do n't have time to knit . |
| 19 | Seymour Cray is still hopeful of bringing his crippled Cray Computer Corp safely in to land , and this week told shareholders that the pay-off will come not with the Cray-3 , but with the Cray-4 the company is developing — ‘ People who predict that things ca n't be done — I guess I do n't have time for them , ’ he told shareholders sternly — ‘ That 's the challenge that I 'm willing to accept in trying to do things that ca n't be done ’ ; the Cray-3 was launched last month , a decade after Cray started work on it , but the Cray-4 is expected to offer twice the performance at half the cost , and the company hopes to demonstrate it by year-end ; it says it has enough cash to fund operations into September and says it is working with two investment banking firms on fund-raising strategies . |
| 20 | It enables those who do n't have time to be volunteers to get involved . |
| 21 | I look like shit because my mind is on higher things , because I 'm so busy I do n't have time to wash my hair , because if you really love me you 'll love me like this as well . |
| 22 | ‘ This is the mail I do n't have time to open , ’ he says . |
| 23 | Were getting into an area which I think is a whole different programme and before this programme started I might tell you we were having a little er discussion amongst ourselves whether or not er zoo 's were good for animals and I suppose there is a discussion about whether prisons are inevitably going to be degrading because of , because of what er , what , what a prison represents which is a curtailment of freedom , but we do n't have time in this programme , so that 's another one for next year , can I ask you , we 've , we 've touched a lot of basis and it must be frustrating that we ca n't pursue er to the end some of the things we 've er , we 've picked on , but can I ask you a couple of final questions , as far as you know have you committed a crime ? , button one for yes and button two for no , as far as you know , I mean we have n't got time to go into what they might be so your perfectly free to be very honest and honestly reveals that three people are n't quite sur , oh yes there they are |
| 24 | We do n't have time for it . ’ |
| 25 | He said ‘ Very interesting , but we do n't have time for all that . ’ |
| 26 | Perhaps they do n't have time to stand and talk like we used to . |
| 27 | I mean people move faster now , they do n't have time . |
| 28 | I do n't know why they do n't have time , but er they do n't . |
| 29 | Being so disorganised that I do n't have time when friends need me . |
| 30 | Small booksellers often do n't have time to see however many reps would be calling on them ; they would much rather put all their orders together and send them to Hammicks or to Heathcote or whoever ; we will work with them on that . |