Example sentences of "n't [vb infin] time for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't have time for lunch , ’ said Sara . |
| 2 | He does n't have time for all this . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ See , she 's an usherette now , so she do n't have time for me no more . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | I do n't have time for all this rubbish . ’ |
| 7 | We do n't have time for the sort of substantive exchanges we would like . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Defries did n't have time for talk . |
| 10 | We do n't have time for it . ’ |
| 11 | He said ‘ Very interesting , but we do n't have time for all that . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ If you stay here much longer you wo n't have time for all that sightseeing , ’ she warned Oliver . |
| 14 | Now he would n't have time for either . |
| 15 | ‘ You wo n't have time for a proper meal but you must eat something — we do n't want you fainting at a crucial moment , do we ? ’ |
| 16 | It 's my work that 's important to me at the moment — I do n't have time for casual affairs . |
| 17 | ‘ Soon you wo n't have time for the old man . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ We do n't have time for this . |
| 19 | She no longer needed it ; did n't have time for it . |
| 20 | ‘ I really do n't have time for this . ’ |
| 21 | We do n't have time for all this nonsense . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We really do n't have time for all the trenchcoat humour , the meaningless catchphrases , the phoney reminiscences , the lame gags about the trusty Smith and Wee Wee , the — ’ |
| 24 | There is one taking place at the moment involving Internal Digital ( DEC ) employees and there seems to be a lot of traffic and interest in it , though I do n't have time for that one . |
| 25 | I feel as badly as you do , but we do n't have time for this . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't have time for games , Lori . |
| 27 | Mind you , I did n't have time for a refresher course , we just had to get on with it . |
| 28 | It used to be dinner for us at night , you see , cos we did n't have time for stopping like at lunchtime . |
| 29 | If it was n't ready , just as he liked it , there would be trouble and that was something she just did n't have time for . |
| 30 | Well if you do that we wo n't have time for the shop . |