Example sentences of "[noun sg] have no time " in BNC.
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| 1 | A predator dashing in for the kill has no time to assess the minute details of the eyes to detect whether they are real or false . |
| 2 | Everything was apparently under control until the last few seconds of flight and he was so busy trying to sort it out that fear had no time to grow . |
| 3 | Tank Girl has no time for fantastic dreams , drinking , as she does , beer from bottles labelled Git This Down Ya Neck . |
| 4 | It was all so sudden that the universe had no time to lose the smoothness it had when it was the size of an atom . |
| 5 | The warden had no time for niceties . |
| 6 | Bureaucrat and radical have no time for each other , but they are both undermining traditional humanism . |
| 7 | So I said well you will just have to be content with me because you 'll because my husband has no time . |
| 8 | The man a man this an elderly man said oh well so I said all right you leave it my husband has no time either you come I shall be alone |
| 9 | Rain had no time for anything but the direct approach which promised , under the fresh circumstances , to be the most appropriate . |
| 10 | But the Collector had no time to worry about the locomotion of corpses ; this doorway had to be held until the defenders on the other side of the staircase had made good their retreat . |
| 11 | And of course the dreadful thought gnawing at him like a rat , that he refused to allow into his conscious mind , was the fear that she might already be complete in herself , and because of her love for her dead husband have no time for his helpless need , just as his mother had once been complete , in her sorrowful love for the stillborn Vincent who had preceded him . |
| 12 | And Sacha says his marriage has survived because his wife has no time for the hype . |
| 13 | The cuckoo has no time to settle low in the nest and her egg often falls a little distance . |
| 14 | This Government has no time at all for the poor and even less time for people who become poor as a result of their savage policies , the policies which cause high interest rates , rising unemployment and all because of it 's obsession with inflation . |
| 15 | A governess has no time of her own , no friends , no one to talk to , and if she gets angry with the children , they just run to their mother . |
| 16 | He asked them to do their homework with the schemata to be sent them , for the Church had no time to lose . |
| 17 | They were tough , dedicated to family and home , sans frills or fanciful ideas , and in the main had no time for self-pity nor hysteria . |
| 18 | Besides which , Milada Pankracova , his secretary , expressly stated in her letter giving me the appointment that her employer had no time or inclination to repeat himself , and that this was the last communication they wanted on the subject . |
| 19 | Kendall has frequently mentioned United in his musings , so City had no time to waste . |
| 20 | Kendall has frequently mentioned United in his musings , so City had no time to waste . |
| 21 | If a particular human is capable of handling the proper aspects of a gadget , which must include mental knowledge of its place in the Machine of Evolution , then it is possible to use it as an aid , but as there are increasing numbers of gadgets being invented and marketed , so the human brain has no time and space to see these in relation to its own life/thought scale because , upon being born , the human is thrown immediately into a multi-armed and legged wrestling match with levers , wires , buttons and switches and fails to grasp the meaning of it all , being occupied totally in rushing to partially master the use of one before the marketeers rush in faster with 10 new gleaming diversions . |
| 22 | Leo Abse commented on the effects this legislation had on kinship ties when he recorded the support given by people in South Wales to his efforts to reform the divorce law during the 1960s : ‘ Welshmen who had endured the depression had no time for the unctuous pleas for the need at all costs to maintain the unity of family life ’ . |
| 23 | Obviously a thief had been about , but Dad had no time to investigate before setting off for work . |