Example sentences of "[vb infin] no time " in BNC.

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1 They can give no time for this appointment .
2 While he could provide no time scale for this , he did say that he expects the business to grow at 20% per annum .
3 I feel that Albert Maillard , if he existed , would have no time for Kapuscinski 's impressionism , for his absence of dates , figures and state papers , and that Albert Maillard would be wrong .
4 This fire officer , however , refused to allow the use of a sizeable proportion of the props , around which the entire show was structured ; and , although the Prince and Princess of Wales were arriving in one and a half hours ' time along with five Cabinet ministers , and the cast would have no time to rehearse without the props they relied upon , he was not to be budged .
5 When he stood in the middle of the road waving his arms it was only because he was hungry and wanted his dinner , now you 'll have to trundle him about in a wheelbarrow like a dead sheep , you 'll have no time for skirmishing .
6 I would have no time and no desire to sit down , and a rod-rest is out of the question .
7 Meaning that you 'll have no time for us here at all soon . ’
8 The aim was to keep them in as long as possible , for without them the people employed to do the menial duties would have no time to relax …
9 Neat back-drops on this stage but you 'll have no time to enjoy them ; duck , shoot , duck , it 'll quack you up !
10 For example , it is very important for a wife who is also a busy mother to learn to speak the local language , but she may have no time for sitting at a desk and making her own drills or doing her own analysis .
11 Now it did not even strike her as odd or ungracious that Jenny , after their long separation , should have no time for questions or interest about her sojourn in America or her journey home , and that she could not control her own unhappiness for the sake of welcoming back her sister .
12 Dr Rafaelo merely said , ‘ Sister Cameron will have no time for fishing , Pablo .
13 Sir Ralph was dead and the surviving hospitaller would have no time for him .
14 They 'll have no time .
15 I mean if I tell you where I want dug over , then if you 're not working at the weekend , we can umm dig everything over and then , cos I mean that area down there , it would take no time at all for you to pave .
16 Even if the tests begin immediately , the earliest possible time for an abortion would be 19–20 weeks , but this would leave no time for the tests and termination to be organised , or for the parents to discuss the matter at any length .
17 He will also lose no time in appointing an Aids expert to head a heavily-funded White House task-force .
18 On receiving an assurance from the guardians that they would lose no time in putting up a nurses ' home , the Minister would be prepared to recommend the Nursing Council to give its approval .
19 I stayed still , hoping desperately that they would not see me , for I knew that if they did they would lose no time in tormenting me and finally killing me .
20 For , whatever else , she would not marry Havvie Blaine now , and she would lose no time in informing him of that fact .
21 Premadasa on March 23 appealed to the LTTE to " enter the democratic process " , promising that " if the LTTE gives up violence , the government will lose no time in holding fresh elections to the North-Eastern Provincial Council and to the local government institutions in that province " .
22 ‘ Nevertheless , we will lose no time in trying to secure a future for Royal Ordnance and our members . ’
23 Let us waste no time in sterile litanies and nauseating mimicry .
24 Neil Mantell is already in the front line of the club 's coaching efforts and Hare should waste no time in giving Peter Cook and Gary Rees their call-up papers .
25 She 'd been so sure that Marianne would waste no time in spreading her poison — now she did n't know how to start explaining her disappearance .
26 She must waste no time in putting him right .
27 Leith wondered , as she drove to work the next morning , why she had bothered getting the car out , since she was convinced that , his warning unheeded , Naylor Massingham would waste no time in getting her out of his business .
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