Example sentences of "[noun] he [vb past] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the rest of the morning he had no time to think about her . |
| 2 | Once on the island he lost no time getting to the prison , and within the hour was waiting in the ante-chamber to an interview room , listening to the distant , hollow sound of metal ringing on metal , and footsteps echoing morbidly as men exercised and moved about their token business . |
| 3 | Once I asked him what he thought of the French system of criminal justice and he replied that during his career he had no time left over from practising our own system to study any other ( which I think is representative of the Bar as a whole ) . |
| 4 | She moved so fast to the door he had no time for even one step . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . ) |
| 6 | 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 . |