Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] no time in " in BNC.
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1 | Toshack has wasted no time in putting his stamp on the side , moving the West German midfielder Bernd Schuster to libero , Michel from the right flank to central midfield , and giving the striker Emilio Butragueno a slightly withdrawn role . |
2 | The Nottingham Forest manager has wasted no time in moving for Olympic keeper Brad Freidle after Mark Crossley cost his side two crucial survival points against Wimbledon on Sunday . |
3 | Graseby Anderson Inc , the Atlanta , Georgia arm of Graseby Plc , Cambridge has wasted no time in filing its proposed initial public offering ( CI No 2,129 ) , of up to 1.92m shares , an unspecified number to come from the Andersen Samplers BV and Graseby Overseas Holdings Ltd units of Graseby . |
4 | VMark Software Inc , Framingham , Massachusetts , has wasted no time in getting its Pick-derived uniVerse ‘ postrelational database management system ’ up under Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT and has been demonstrating it in Atlanta . |
5 | And it has wasted no time in garnering the support of academic and commercial developers with over 20 firms writing software for it . |
6 | VMark Software Inc , Framingham , Massachusetts , has wasted no time in getting its Pick-derived uniVerse ‘ postrelational database management system ’ up under Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT and has been demonstrating it in Atlanta . |
7 | He added , ‘ I also hear that Earl Siward has lost no time in equipping all his churches of St Cuthbert with four stout walls , a ditch , and a garrison . |
8 | SAVE wasted no time in seeking legal advice as to whether the decision could be challenged . |
9 | At Eton , he had been fag to a charmless older boy who had wasted no time in introducing Henry to the joys of homosexuality . |
10 | Fleury turned away , sickened , for Chloe had wasted no time in bounding forward to eat away the sepoy 's face . |
11 | The Padre had wasted no time in equipping himself with fresh and healthy bearers and now had himself carried with exhilarating swiftness in a litter to where the Collector was standing with the General . |
12 | He had already heard Osvaldo was dead — the malais had wasted no time in letting that he known — but the circumstances had been different . |
13 | She had still been smarting from her unjust dismissal for ‘ over-familiarity with the management ’ at Ardis & Co , when she had wasted no time in squashing two men in particular at Vasey 's who had shown more interest in her than in their work . |
14 | The German defenders had pulled out and , from their new positions , they had lost no time in setting up their mortars . |
15 | She was on the point of ordering some of her people to hurry over to Acropolis Park to call in person , when one of her more canny officers , who had lost no time in searching the sector , arrived back at the Club . |
16 | Hugo Brassard confirmed with obvious reluctance that Georgina Newley had lost no time in taking control of her husband 's business after his disappearance . |
17 | Martinho had lost no time in recounting the true details of Osvaldo 's moment of weakness , the point at which he 'd flipped his lid for the first and last time in his career , that murderous aberration which had been the doom of old friend and new foe alike . |
18 | I have come straight from the event , and as your lordship sees , I have wasted no time in applying to you . ’ |
19 | They have lost no time in sounding the alarm about an impending famine , which they say threatens 1.9m people . |
20 | ‘ You have lost no time in setting things to rights , I see , ’ she said in a carefully neutral tone . |