Example sentences of "[prep] no time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You say we have no liberties , ’ Hope replied to a rather over-eloquent statement of George 's , ‘ but I can think of no time when we have had a greater chance to take what freedom we want . |
| 2 | They thought he was an eccentric , a curmudgeon , a man with no time for humanity . |
| 3 | The man recited all the way and they were nearly late , with no time to stop for lunch . |
| 4 | Now you just drive straight there and back , with no time for stories . ’ |
| 5 | They also show little awareness that primary schools are busy places where children are actively and totally engaged in programmes of purposeful learning with no time to waste . |
| 6 | ‘ Often , ’ says Pitkeathley , ‘ they become carers with no time to plan , no time to think about the effect on their lives . |
| 7 | This is to imply to a bystander that the biker is an athlete in training , with no time to stop and take a drink in a punishing schedule . |
| 8 | Rather taken aback , and with no time to think of a suitable reply , I said , ‘ Well , I suppose at your age I can only stand back and hope you do n't make too many mistakes . ’ |
| 9 | One mother of six told me that she moved happily from motherhood to grandmotherhood with no time between for mourning the empty nest . |
| 10 | There was such a racket from their place at night during lambing time — and that 's a twenty-four-hour job with no time to sleep . |
| 11 | However , for occasional days when you might find yourself caught out with no time or ingredients ( try to plan ahead to avoid this : you can easily carry Fibre-Filler with you in a plastic bag in your handbag ! ) we have listed a few alternative very high-fibre breakfasts in The F-Plan Meals . |
| 12 | With no time for briefing , the Hearing got under way . |
| 13 | With no time to wait for an ambulance , Colin , 27 , rang the midwife who issued instructions as he dashed up and down the stairs between the phone and the bathroom . |
| 14 | Albert was reading in the library because Mr Morgan was coming to give him an extra Greek lesson and Hepzibah was busy , bustling in and out of the kitchen with no time for Carrie . |
| 15 | with no time to learn flinching . |
| 16 | And , with no time left , it might just as well be forty . |
| 17 | I knew that if I did not act , things were set so that we would be annihilated with no time for questions or replies . |
| 18 | She had no time to dwell on the matter , however , because , ever a man with no time for prevarication , he replied , ‘ Not trying to trip you up at all , ’ then grated bluntly , ‘ More trying to discover just how many ‘ close ’ men friends you do have . ’ |
| 19 | Their loving was wild and tempestuous , with no time to spare for tenderness or softly spoken promises . |
| 20 | The Minister of State will be under no time constraint this evening , and she will have plenty of time to tell us precisely what she will do about this serious subject . |
| 21 | The police makes them streetwise within no time at all , but they 're missing out on something ’ ( FN 9/8/87 , p. 3 ) . |
| 22 | She proceeds to demonstrate , and within no time at all half a toothpick is stuck to her forehead , as if by magic . |
| 23 | In fact , they were so well drilled that when I went to C Division — Essex Street — you 'd wait on the corner of a back street and there 'd be a crowd of fellers there and within no time , before you could get near them , they 'd all have disappeared . |
| 24 | You will know that , in your present life , you can meet someone new and within no time at all that person becomes a true friend . |
| 25 | Within no time at all , the directly elected mayor of some industrial town or city in the north would spot that if he came along with imaginative ideas for raising standards and delivering services , he would get support , he would be the one that would claim the credit and the central government would be proud to let him have it . |
| 26 | The time allotted in different local education authorities for solving the kinds of issue described above ranged from no time at all , through one day every term , two hours once a month , to one afternoon , and in one case a whole day each week . |
| 27 | In no time at all it jerked forward , and there I was , on my way . |
| 28 | And say we are coming in no time at all . ’ |
| 29 | I remember thinking that use of rhyming slang was going to help clear matters up in no time . |
| 30 | He gestured his dissent at this and in no time the crowd were clamouring for the umpire to reverse the decision , which he did . |