Example sentences of "be [verb] no time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laura had been given no time to mourn the collapse of her brief marriage . |
| 2 | One moment you give all your time to it , you do n't come home till late at night , you do n't even come home in the afternoon like ordinary men , the next you are giving no time to it at all . |
| 3 | They might be given no time to put down territorial roots . |
| 4 | But you might say , and I councillor did say in fact that of course we would be most unfair in the way that we did this because to quote from him er we were giving no time , no time for discussion , no time for evaluation no time . |
| 5 | She 's wasting no time on me , Kate thought , as she was deftly served before the girl turned back to show Ace her white teeth once again . |
| 6 | RETIRING House of Commons Speaker Bernard Weatherill is wasting no time in heading for the world of business . |
| 7 | But detritus is given no time to accumulate in tropical forests . |
| 8 | Flat fields interspersed by dykes gleaming in the June sunshine spread as far as the eye could see and skylarks hovered and trilled overhead , but Nails , cautiously taking it all in , was given no time for comment . |
| 9 | She was given no time to protest , as he found her mouth with his , and pressed her hard against him . |
| 10 | THERE were angry scenes outside Inverness Sheriff Court yesterday when a new age traveller was given no time to pay a £500 fine and jailed for 14 days . |