Example sentences of "waste [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because A you 're not wasting the time , you 're not worrying about the post sort , you 're getting the stuff quicker , you 've got the thing logged in and logged out erm so to , to a great extent , I mean er we should be ab I personally think that we should actually s be trying s we should be expecting to see an advantage but let's just take that as as , as , as neutral so that you have n't got a er a worsening situation and you have n't taken adva taken advantage of any |
| 2 | The Bank men , their first-class tickets ensuring a place at the front of the queue for immigration formalities , wasted no time in getting through the airport and were quickly ferried by car along the narrow road into the city . |
| 3 | Derek Williams , who beat Hughroy Currie for the vacant European heavyweight title on Tuesday night , wasted no time yesterday in throwing a gauntlet in the direction of the British champion , Gary Mason . |
| 4 | I was very pleased , and we , well , we wasted no time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | JUSTIN FARTHING wasted no time picking up the winning thread following his disappointment at Aintree with the Martell Fox Hunters ' favourite , Rushing Wild . |
| 7 | Obviously every record company in Britain wasted no time in sniffing out the possibilities of picking up the band . |
| 8 | A meeting of Leaders and Trustees was held in the Carleton Cafe the following Friday evening , 18 December — they wasted no time — and after a prolonged discussion the decision was taken to build a new church as soon as possible and certainly within the following five years . |
| 9 | His thoughts often centred on the foot of the horse , and he wasted no time in his introductory lecture before remarking on the correlation of structure and function that was exhibited by the frog of the foot . |
| 10 | Meanwhile Barnard , who lost his royalty rights to this particular version of the program , wasted no time in setting up Ace Microsystems . |
| 11 | We wasted no time taking off over the rice paddies of Thailand . |
| 12 | Emil , the crew and I wasted no time watching . |
| 13 | ‘ They wasted no time in getting me up to the theatre , and after making the General promise not to take my arm off I gave a running commentary as the ether took effect . |
| 14 | With her were daughters Beatrice , four , and Eugenie , two , who wasted no time in getting kitted out in matching silver ski suits . |
| 15 | Charles wasted no time in moving in with his beloved grandmother — the Queen Mother — last night . |
| 16 | Six minutes later , Shearer collected his fifth Coca-Coal goal of the campaign when a harmless looking corner from Jason Wilcox ricocheted off two bodies and fell nicely for Shearer , who wasted no time in sending the ball into the back of the net . |
| 17 | Shouting to Wemyss to cope with this situation , Douglas wasted no time . |
| 18 | Seton wasted no time in setting his men , and many of the citizens , to work of another kind , particularly digging new ditches to keep artillery at a distance . |
| 19 | Then brother Jack strolled in and he wasted no time in chatting them up . |
| 20 | He wasted no time targeting Wegerle as the man to make the most from former England winger Chris Waddle 's brilliant prompting . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Since then , the power to appoint savings banks ' top managers has shifted to the Treasury and the ruling political parties , which wasted no time in introducing the savings banks into Italy 's system of lottizzazione — doling out plush jobs to politicians ' pals . |
| 23 | I wasted no time in entering the assembly area and rejoining the cheerful gang of visitors , buoyed up by the welcome infusion of champagne and looking forward to more . |
| 24 | He was a picture of grace , but wasted no time in rehabilitating now with a chanceless 126 in the next match in Kandy against an Up-Country XI . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He wasted no time ; his very first question was about Cecil King . |
| 27 | But Sikes and Toby wasted no time . |
| 28 | Since they were all gloved , the Doctor wasted no time , simply pushing the door open . |
| 29 | Donna wasted no time checking them out . |
| 30 | I wasted no time in talking to the man … |