Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [art] time in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two or three of Dr McNab 's supporters wasted no time in surreptitiously slipping their cards of emergency instructions from their pockets , crossing out the name McNab , and substituting that of his rival , before settling back to watch their new champion in the lists . |
| 2 | Spanish Christendom thus enjoyed a respite and Alfonso lost no time in consolidating his battered forces . |
| 3 | Cleo thought at first that the net would only drift right through the spirit , but it swiftly formed a sparkling ball round its prey , and Apanage lost no time in drawing the opening of the silk tightly together . |
| 4 | But when Edinburgh University 's Professor David Wood-Gush and colleagues released factory-raised pigs into a semi-wild environment on the Pentland Hills , the animals lost no time in gathering twigs , grass and branches to build communal nests in which to sleep . |
| 5 | The administration lost no time in trying to regain the initiative for the United States . |
| 6 | Two ELIZABETHANS passing the time in a place without any visible character . |
| 7 | Wilekin wastes no time in offering Dame Sirith " " ful riche mede " " , " a most rich reward/payment " ( 166 ) if she will help him . |
| 8 | The Disciplinary Committee lost no time in expanding its reports of hearings , issuing for the first time details of the chairman 's comments in the case of Michael Jordan , senior partner of Cork Gully , and Richard Stone , head of corporate finance at Coopers & Lybrand , who were found guilty last year of accepting the appointment of administrator to Polly Peck in spite of a continuing professional interest between PPI and C&L . |
| 9 | That clinched it ; the Public Assistance Committee lost no time in recommending that Bedford should go to the minister and be incorporated in the NHS . |
| 10 | And true to form Graham Sale lost no time in capitalising on an opportunity presenting Douglas Hurd with his own clock . |
| 11 | But Holligan wasted no time in the seventh and an even better left-hook stretched Ekubia on his back to earn the Liverpool lad a Lonsdale Belt . |
| 12 | Badoglio lost no time in advancing on the capital , Addis Ababa — from which the Emperor , Haile Selassie , had already fled to Britain — and entered it triumphantly on 5 May 1936 . |
| 13 | And immediately wondered if she 'd said the right thing , for Lubor wasted no time in asking , ‘ And what are you going to do today ? ’ |
| 14 | When he returned to the States , Mueller lost no time in carrying out Cocello 's instructions to direct the phase-out of UK vehicle operations from Detroit , and to prepare detail plans to centralise European and world planning activities . |
| 15 | When , in 1979 , Sir Nicholas Henderson was posted to Washington and within two weeks of moving was told that the new Prime Minister , Margaret Thatcher , was to visit , Mary Henderson wasted no time in asking Laura if she could supply certain fabrics at cost price with immediate delivery ; Laura naturally obliged . |
| 16 | But once the first of these did arrive , Edward Plantagenet lost no time in testing their quality . |
| 17 | With Coleman gone , the practitioners lost no time in taking the initiative . |
| 18 | Shortly Mala joined me in the control area losing no time in calling her FedPol friend , Chertro , to suggest that he contact Ardakke and offer his services . |
| 19 | The migrants waste no time in starting to breed . |
| 20 | ‘ Word travelled fast that Ferryside had a good bed and this army wasted no time in coming down to get it . |
| 21 | ‘ Word travelled fast that Ferryside had a good bed and this army wasted no time in coming down to get it . |
| 22 | Obviously every record company in Britain wasted no time in sniffing out the possibilities of picking up the band . |
| 23 | Dean Jones lost no time in demonstrating his ability to hit the ball hard and often on his competitive debut for Durham , but the boundaries he scattered around and beyond the ropes during their Sunday League win over Lancashire were no more impressive than the speed with which he hurtled the singles and made ones into twos . |
| 24 | Murdock lost no time in setting out for London to take out a patent for his model . |
| 25 | Diego Ordonez lost no time in accusing El Cid of seeking to further his own ends by laying claim to Toledo , something which Rodrigo never appears to have intended . |
| 26 | If he had not so perceived it , the Tsar lost no time in pointing it out , for on each subsequent occasion when an attempt was made by Paris to draw closer to St Petersburg the Russians raised the question of the Black Sea Clauses . |
| 27 | Lady Thatcher remembered the time in the late 1970s when she had gone on television and warned that people were afraid of being ‘ swamped ’ by immigrants . |
| 28 | Charles wasted no time in moving in with his beloved grandmother — the Queen Mother — last night . |
| 29 | The book wastes no time in stressing in its first paragraph the medical hazards of climbing these mountains , on which one can rapidly gain height up the accessible tourist routes to altitudes high enough to cause acute mountain sickness . |
| 30 | Ferrières itself was south of Paris , between Sens and Orléans , both sees whose bishops were supporting Charles ; but its rich dependent house of St-Josse near Quentovic was in the area that fell under Lothar 's control in September 840 , and Lothar lost no time in handing it over to one of his own clerks . |