Example sentences of "had [vb pp] no time " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mother had had no time for him , and his father disapproved of him . |
| 2 | He had had no time to acquaint himself with his fief , twice seen , and well enough served by its own . |
| 3 | It was not fair to say that he– parents had had no time for her or for Joe ; all four of the family had worked together , and , as the settlement grew , they had enjoyed churchgoing and Easters and Christmases with their neighbours . |
| 4 | He had only been in the cellar for about one minute when the ghost appeared and he had had no time to doze . |
| 5 | The author recalls an able Treasury minister who , after resignation , became a convinced and cogent parliamentary reformer , explaining that as a minister he had had no time to work out this aspect of policy and therefore , since the Treasury was opposed to more specialist committees of the House of Commons , he used the brief they provided and he had been a formidable opponent of these reforms at the Cabinet Committee level . |
| 6 | He had had no time to confer with his client and only twelve hours to study the charges . |
| 7 | Prime Minister Jan Olszewski said that his newly-formed government had had no time to prepare its own budget , and asked parliament " with a heavy heart and a true sense of responsibility " to accept the measures before it . |
| 8 | The chairman was clearly annoyed at Maradona 's claim that he had had no time to notify him on Monday before returning to Argentina for the friendly against Denmark . |
| 9 | No less important , the choice of 2nd May had left no time to consult them beforehand and they resented what appeared to be an arbitrary order . |
| 10 | At Eton , he had been fag to a charmless older boy who had wasted no time in introducing Henry to the joys of homosexuality . |
| 11 | Fleury turned away , sickened , for Chloe had wasted no time in bounding forward to eat away the sepoy 's face . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He had wasted no time , the body was almost warm as life , only no breath in him , so we let all alone until morning . |
| 14 | He had already heard Osvaldo was dead — the malais had wasted no time in letting that he known — but the circumstances had been different . |
| 15 | The man 's wife had wasted no time going through his closets picking up worn and odd pairs . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The German defenders had pulled out and , from their new positions , they had lost no time in setting up their mortars . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They had lost no time . |
| 20 | Hugo Brassard confirmed with obvious reluctance that Georgina Newley had lost no time in taking control of her husband 's business after his disappearance . |
| 21 | 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 . |