Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] in [art] time " in BNC.

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1 She 'll make mincemeat of them in no time . ’
2 However , since fourteen topics were listed , even fairly full courses must have paid quite limited attention to any one topic , in order to cover all of them in the time available .
3 When he was killed Vincent Massey , the High Commissioner for Canada , and Mr Justice Lawrence , the High Court Judge for whom Dermot had marshalled , wrote appreciations of him in The Times , a remarkable tribute in this time of war to an unknown young man .
4 She was with me in no time , and while she and a neighbour carried Nigel to his bed , I phoned the doctor , who arrived very soon .
5 They would be with him in no time .
6 She is infatuated with a handsome police chief , goes rather grimly to bed with him in the time he can spare from gambling sessions , and then kills herself .
7 You 'd be bored with it in no time — and so would everybody else .
8 All we can do is shape the means by which they approach us and the terms on which they will live with us in the time to come , that we may keep our honour and our identity , and be their free neighbours and allies , not their villeins .
9 Well it came so suddenly you see there 's erm as I said playing football , and then this accident and then he he was sort of taken away from us in no time you know .
10 He well recalls a couplet about him in The Times : ‘ He was right , dead right , as he walked along ; but he was just as dead as if he 'd been wrong . ’
11 It was about two-thirty , however , when she had need to go for a file which Jimmy would , had he been there , have fetched for her in no time .
12 I think I just put up with it because he behaved in such extraordinary ways to me in the time I had known him , of showing affection at all ?
13 He 'll be on the phone to you in no time . ’
14 We 'll come back to you in no time at all .
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