Example sentences of "n't [vb infin] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was not to say that he did n't spend time with the army , lending vigorous help as the trains of oxen dragged the batteries into position , and the wagonloads of food and fodder , weapons and powder bumped fifty miles south-east from Kyrenia to where Famagusta lay , lodged in its bay , divided by ninety broad sea miles from Syria . |
| 2 | ACET volunteers work as part of a team and provide help in many different ways to ensure that people do n't spend time in hospital unnecessarily . |
| 3 | We do n't take time over it . |
| 4 | I treated her rotten whilst I was studying like I would n't take time off studying to go and see her or phone her when I saw her as often as I could , every weekend |
| 5 | ‘ Five of the grandchildren went to Euro Disney on a school trip and loved it but did n't have time to really do it justice . |
| 6 | It enables those who do n't have time to be volunteers to get involved . |
| 7 | She did n't have time to more than glance at it before two pairs of strong hands lifted her from the stools , and placed her unceremoniously on a table top . |
| 8 | And I did n't have time to pussyfoot around . |
| 9 | You did n't have time to er to go and er , and play too much . |
| 10 | ‘ Doctors do n't have time to be beautiful , ’ Charity informed her ruefully . |
| 11 | last year we did n't have time to really |
| 12 | Wo n't have time to appetite . |
| 13 | I Did n't have time to fucking cut the beef this morning , in the butchers . |
| 14 | but erm , I think I down by his legs , all this and erm , you know , its bang , bang its just like , its over in a split second , you do n't have time to be this , I was there and there nobody really new what was going on and all this sort of stuff , he was probably one of most honest about , well , one of the most honest little bloke more willing to speak about it , and he had this other one it was right you know like , er , well I 'm already taking further than I 'm willing to go on this course , what you need is , well look , you know , all I know is that we was first , saying no more than that , not willing to go . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | You ca n't have time as a decimal , time is not a decimal . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't have time for lunch , ’ said Sara . |
| 18 | He does n't have time for all this . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ See , she 's an usherette now , so she do n't have time for me no more . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You wo n't have time for all this stuff when we get home again , what with the oven to clean and everything , ’ he persisted . |
| 22 | I do n't have time for all this rubbish . ’ |
| 23 | We do n't have time for the sort of substantive exchanges we would like . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Defries did n't have time for talk . |
| 26 | We do n't have time for it . ’ |
| 27 | He said ‘ Very interesting , but we do n't have time for all that . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ If you stay here much longer you wo n't have time for all that sightseeing , ’ she warned Oliver . |
| 30 | Now he would n't have time for either . |