Example sentences of "had no time " in BNC.

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1 He confirmed that General Noriega was briefly in the hands of the rebels but said the US had no time to make use of this fact .
2 Starting with a bank loan of £4,000 , Roddick had no time to sit down in the early years and draw up a grandiose mission of what her organisation should set out to achieve .
3 He detested the commercial world and , although he was much the same age as the Prince , had no time for the young .
4 Kendall has frequently mentioned United in his musings , so City had no time to waste .
5 Kendall has frequently mentioned United in his musings , so City had no time to waste .
6 Lozano had claimed that the motorcycle was aimed at him , and that he had no time to leap out of the way .
7 Lozano had claimed that the motorcycle was aimed at him , and that he had no time to leap out of the way .
8 Birdies , butchers and fools They called Forman a Zionist and Menzel a pornographer — Moscow 's stooges had no time for the Czech New Wave .
9 It was all so sudden that the universe had no time to lose the smoothness it had when it was the size of an atom .
10 An election is promised some time next year , but critics are alarmed by the appointment of Sheikh Salem as deputy prime minister and foreign minister ; in his old job as interior minister , Sheikh Salem had no time for the regime 's opponents .
11 Being obliged to earn a living without intermission , Jane had no time to pick and choose , but snapped up the first offer — on a woman 's magazine .
12 Marie had no time to think about Bella 's story : the little queue surged forward and they found themselves inside the double doors in a short corridor leading through to the main ward .
13 I had no time for friends , relaxation or pleasure .
14 There was something bookish and appealing about the old lady , but we had no time to get acquainted , for brisk Mary pointed me on my way .
15 As for Lizzie Treherne , to whom Wilson still felt drawn , she had done her best but , with four children now , she truly had no time to spare for letters , never having found them easy .
16 Wilson had no time to miss him and his family or her other gentleman , who had joined their party , before the Brownings were back , similarly propelled by the fear that they might be trapped because of war .
17 It was only a very light avalanche : this close to the summit it had no time to gather power .
18 But she had no time and could not rest : she still had places to visit .
19 In mid-afternoon , Joseph rode down from the lines to organise the packing of the lodges , but , Yellow Wolf recalled : ‘ The women , not knowing the warriors were disagreeing , quitting the fight , had no time to pack the camp .
20 He had no time to see who the man was .
21 Fortunately for Napoleon III , Alexander II was so involved for the next six years with the internal reconstruction of his Empire , which the Crimean War had shown to be lamentably weak , that he had no time for a ‘ forward ’ policy in Europe which might thwart French designs .
22 All the men in the University seemed to be married or gay or scientists , and Robyn had no time or energy to look further afield .
23 Nevertheless he had no time to nurse his injury as he was pitched once again into the struggle to recruit more men and to retain the independence of his unit .
24 Some said they had no listed buildings at risk at all , others that there were so many their hands were full and they had no time to reply .
25 The linguists were allowed to diminish or extinguish their study of the sciences : the scientists , if they were to maintain a full programme in three separate sciences , had no time to waste on languages .
26 I had no time to search thoroughly .
27 But Joicey had no time for such pleasantries .
28 In 1972 the Criminal Law Revision Committee had been particularly exercised by the fear that silent suspects could ‘ ambush ’ the prosecution with evidence at their trial which they did not mention during questioning and which the police now had no time independently to verify .
29 Obviously John had no time to investigate the theory , and probably he would not have bothered anyway , since it looks convincing and he was given to quick enthusiasms .
30 He had no time for school sports and would rather interest himself in planning and building a village on the school grounds . ’
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