Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [art] time " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 think the Council had a time meeting to actually discuss that report with , with
4 The warden had no time for niceties .
5 Rain had no time for anything but the direct approach which promised , under the fresh circumstances , to be the most appropriate .
6 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 .
7 He asked them to do their homework with the schemata to be sent them , for the Church had no time to lose .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Kendall has frequently mentioned United in his musings , so City had no time to waste .
11 Kendall has frequently mentioned United in his musings , so City had no time to waste .
12 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 ’ .
13 Obviously a thief had been about , but Dad had no time to investigate before setting off for work .
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