Example sentences of "but for [art] [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Turner is one of my favourite painters , but for a long time I have had a theory that he had " wide-angle eyes " that filled the camera with distorted shapes . |
2 | Spokesman Brian Adams explained : ‘ The historical society is one of the oldest clubs at Queen 's but for a long time it seemed to have fallen into a plodding routine . |
3 | I have over the years many times come to the rostrum but for the first time it gives me no pleasure at all in saying what has to be said . |
4 | Being rude about Palin feels like bombing Switzerland , but for the first time he seems , with this series , to be to post-Python what Paul McCartney was to post-Beatles . |
5 | But for the thousandth time I do n't do anything and we get to the bathroom safely . |
6 | It was the twentieth time he had confessed such ignorance , but for the twentieth time it did not satisfy Jane Sharpe who sat naked to the waist at the room 's small dressing-table . |
7 | But for the small time it took to put this inner up it made little difference . |
8 | As it happened Namibia won the game and the tournament , but for a long time it looked as if the Zimbabweans would win , leaving the hitherto unbeaten Namibians out in the cold . |