Example sentences of "[pers pn] no time " in BNC.

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1 Feed 'er up , get a gold lamé turban and you could be back in the ring with 'er no time at all . ’
2 Also , your character is under constant threat from irritating bats that zoom onto the screen at an incredible rate of knots , leaving you no time to react .
3 NICRA also had a reasonable complaint that the lateness of the ban gave them no time to negotiate amy alternative date or route .
4 They felt stigmatized , as skilled men , by taking unskilled work , and it left them no time to search for work at their trade .
5 The doctor gave them no time to think , and went on fiercely ,
6 The assassin gave her no time to cry out ; a flare of terror — what am I doing here who is that behind me dark dark someone behind me — and Fox tightened her hold on the other 's mind , taking control .
7 He gave her no time to start crying .
8 And of course , it took her no time to work out that precisely the opposite would apply to the beams coming at her from the front of the craft .
9 But he gave her no time to explain .
10 It took her no time at all to turn over the bed along by the rickety fence .
11 He must have seen her marshalling her arguments , for he gave her no time to use them .
12 He fairly hauled her along the street afterwards , giving her no time for nerves as they reached a white-painted door with a large brass dragon for a knocker .
13 But at the work-place the pursuit of profit allows him no time to be distracted with personal pursuits better attended to elsewhere .
14 Cora-Beth 's voice gave him no time to consider the matter further .
15 If the sender is traceable , probably the most sensible thing to do is to notify him that the goods are at his risk and to request him to fetch them ; and if ( as is likely with perishables ) the goods become a nuisance , the recipient would surely be justified in abating the nuisance by destroying them , even without notice to the sender , if the emergency were so pressing as to leave him no time to give it .
16 First he reminded us that it had taken him no time at all to find the Ardakkean thief — an off-world technician working in one of the phetam refining plants .
17 Riven tried to dredge up images of their foes from his books , but the reality of the rain , the darkness , and the approaching pack left him no time to think .
18 He gave him no time to pay and ordered he be jailed for up to the alternative of 14 days .
19 Look at him — throwin' his eye up your skirt — and it no time at all since he gave up wettin' the bed ! ’
20 How sudden it all is , leaving us no time to make adjustments and to learn acceptance .
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