Example sentences of "waste no time " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 I was very pleased , and we , well , we wasted no time .
4 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 .
5 JUSTIN FARTHING wasted no time picking up the winning thread following his disappointment at Aintree with the Martell Fox Hunters ' favourite , Rushing Wild .
6 Obviously every record company in Britain wasted no time in sniffing out the possibilities of picking up the band .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Meanwhile Barnard , who lost his royalty rights to this particular version of the program , wasted no time in setting up Ace Microsystems .
10 We wasted no time taking off over the rice paddies of Thailand .
11 Emil , the crew and I wasted no time watching .
12 ‘ 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 .
13 With her were daughters Beatrice , four , and Eugenie , two , who wasted no time in getting kitted out in matching silver ski suits .
14 Charles wasted no time in moving in with his beloved grandmother — the Queen Mother — last night .
15 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 .
16 Shouting to Wemyss to cope with this situation , Douglas wasted no time .
17 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 .
18 Then brother Jack strolled in and he wasted no time in chatting them up .
19 He wasted no time targeting Wegerle as the man to make the most from former England winger Chris Waddle 's brilliant prompting .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 He wasted no time ; his very first question was about Cecil King .
26 But Sikes and Toby wasted no time .
27 Since they were all gloved , the Doctor wasted no time , simply pushing the door open .
28 Donna wasted no time checking them out .
29 I wasted no time in talking to the man …
30 He wasted no time on regrets .
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