Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] no time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case you have no time to check which rod you are striking with and it could lose you fish if you strike too hard with the stiffer rod and break off , or too gently with the softer rod and fail to sink the hook . |
| 2 | At a philosophical level he had no time for notions of the social contract or human rights ( he famously described the idea of natural rights as ‘ nonsense upon stilts ’ . ) |
| 3 | Having risen from Ukrainian coal mines through the party ranks as a tough and brutal Stalinist , once he achieved personal power he wasted no time in opening his mind to the ways of the rest of the world . |
| 4 | On that occasion we lost no time in speeding over to the courts , finding a judge , and obtaining an injunction almost at once . |
| 5 | They reason that while Iran and Iraq are fighting each other they have no time to look for adventures elsewhere in the region . ’ |
| 6 | Daddy kept rather obviously bestirring himself to mind about my exams and piling up my desk with secondary stuff I 've no time for — I do n't want to read literary criticism yet , almost at all , and I 'm damned sure he does n't smother his clever boys with it . |
| 7 | On the other hand it takes no time at all to load a dishwasher . |