Example sentences of "never have [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scotland has never had much time for earthquakes : the national football team already has a monopoly on disasters . |
| 2 | I have never had much time for the more esoteric confections you find all over the place . |
| 3 | And she had never had much time for Angela Cartwright , who , when it came to Grunte , tended to run with the hare , though it was plain enough that she had been put out by Grunte 's placing Hyacinth on his right hand and had agreed with Carole afterwards that they would have little trouble finding the necessary fifty signatures . |
| 4 | As a person , you know , I 'd never have any time . |
| 5 | Churchill in office would never have wasted time in the smoking room without an audience . |
| 6 | Lloyd George would never have wasted time there at all , but he might have chosen the Strand Magazine had he been left waiting upon a railway platform . |
| 7 | He says a few years ago I asked my father 's test pilot Geoffrey Quill about this business of the seagulls and he told me your father was a hard-headed engineer and if he was stuck for inspiration he would never have wasted time watching bloody seagulls ! |
| 8 | She never had much time for me before . ’ |
| 9 | She 'd been a sort of feminist before it became fashionable ; never had much time for all that sisterly stuff , but she was positive she was as good as any man and she 'd prove it … |
| 10 | ‘ I never had much time for him when he was young , but I never guessed he 'd do anything as rotten as this ! ’ |
| 11 | His replacement , former sales manager Nils Sontag , never had enough time to lick the company into shape . |
| 12 | I never had enough time to spare for my wife , let alone other women — even if I 'd been so inclined , which I was not . ’ |
| 13 | Because of this she never had any time for her own parents : my mother could n't think it was right that they 'd parted with two of their children . ’ |
| 14 | I never have enough time . |