Example sentences of "[pers pn] for the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may have been dependent on me for the time being for his physical well-being , but at the deepest level he was dependent on Montaine . |
| 2 | I 've got my er seventeen year old granddaughter staying with me for the time being |
| 3 | The big four have asked all Japanese corporations with equity-financing plans to postpone them for the time being . |
| 4 | The fact that his father behaved towards him for most of the time with mild , if somewhat unthinking kindness , did not rule out this possibility which is present at some time or other in most children 's minds : after all , if you were going to kill someone you would naturally go on being kind to them for the time being , giving them money for sweets and generally keeping up appearances . |
| 5 | But he dismissed them for the time being , having more important matters to be dealt with . |
| 6 | It was the first time I 've seen either Perberton and White so I 'll reserve judgement on them for the time being . |
| 7 | the general administration of the trust is ordinarily carried on outside the United Kingdom ; and 2. the trustees or a majority of them for the time being are not resident or not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom ( TCGA 1992 , s69(1) ) . |
| 8 | Mrs A. W. wrote : ‘ I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the time and effort you have put into compiling this diet which has made a bigger difference to my weight and dimensions than any other diet I have been on … . ‘ |
| 9 | For example , there is a right way and a wrong way of answering a stranger who has asked you for the time . |
| 10 | They 're more likely to leave George 's reins to you for the time being . |
| 11 | Okay , Carol , thank you for the time you 've given to us to see it . |
| 12 | But if you wanted a single bed moving , then the cheapest way would be just to have one man , he comes we charge you for the time we take , with a minimum of an hour 's charge . |
| 13 | Would that suit you for the time being , Graham ? |
| 14 | A girl from one of the other teams — for all of us had assembled by now — asked him for the time and briefly discussed the weather with him and when , after about 15 minutes , he struck off purposefully around a nearby playing field , he had a tail of 14 people — the entire membership of all four spy teams — determined not to lose their quarry . |
| 15 | ‘ Carry on seeing him for the time being . |
| 16 | ‘ Anyway , let's forget it for the time being . |
| 17 | ‘ As a pledge of my sincerity in the matter of the crowning of Prince Richard , I leave it for the time being with you . |
| 18 | Ever since John Marshall , its first chief justice , discovered that the court had the ability to overturn legislation that did not accord with the constitution , it has been indispensable in bolstering the central tenet of American democracy : that no grant of governmental power to those who exercise it for the time being is limitless . |
| 19 | The photo was in there , too , but she left it for the time being . |
| 20 | By that method we fix our minds on some central point : we suppose it for the time to be reduced to a stationary state ; and we then study in relation to it the forces that affect the things by which it is surrounded , and any tendency there may be to equilibrium of these forces . |
| 21 | I 'll second it for the time being . |
| 22 | And a and also , I mean , it was , and it was a Panasonic one this , erm what you do , if you were doing a jacket top potato , you er would weigh the potato and , and then erm put in the weight , say it was six ounces , and all you do then is press erm jacket potato , you do n't have to put any time , it automatically does it for the time . |
| 23 | Jane had come to us for the time being . |
| 24 | Let us for the time being not take a stand on this issue but address ourselves to the whole phenomenon in its strong sense . |
| 25 | You may be with us unwillingly , but you are certainly with us for the time being . ’ |