Example sentences of "[pers pn] for a time " in BNC.
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1 | As for Dawson , he almost ignored it , and me for a time . |
2 | I thought he and you , both of you , had deceived me about your relationship — the way Suzanna and Raich deceived me for a time . |
3 | Mrs Verity 's expenditure turned out to be far more than she guessed and their decisions were also affected because the bank was overcharging them for a time . |
4 | Formula feeds without lactose are available , and your doctor may be able to prescribe one for you for a time , if your baby has had gastroenteritis and continues to have colic or diarrhoea afterwards . |
5 | Now , you worked for the erm the tenants ' action group , did n't you for a time ? |
6 | I wo n't be in touch with you for a time and I do n't want you starting a panic . ’ |
7 | Later , Baxter 's father and step-mother also came to live with him for a time . |
8 | Later , Baxter 's father and step-mother also came to live with him for a time . |
9 | When you show disapproval to a dog , reinforce this by ignoring him for a time . |
10 | ‘ Of course I was on the same squadron as him for a time . ’ |
11 | Not the clankings and gratings of the Zoo which lay off in the distance to his right , now obscured by the trees over which he had flown in the night , but the call of a thousand birds whose busyness and life shook his fears off him for a time and replaced them with a sense of wonder . |
12 | John Aubrey [ q.v. ] may have lodged with him for a time . |
13 | He left her for a time to find prey and brought back a hare from the moorland tops , tearing it up and gently feeding her with parts of it . |
14 | Artegall remains with her for a time and restores order : |
15 | But if cheating is necessary , you can commonly get away with it for a time . |
16 | There is a real danger in only doing the classical things — you 're OK with it for a time , but then you 're left high and dry when fashion moves on . ’ |
17 | Genette speaks of this change in emphasis as a restoration of equilibrium in literary studies : ‘ Literature had long enough been regarded as a message without a code for it to become necessary to regard it for a time as a code without a message ( 1982 : 7 ) . |
18 | As Sir Alan Richmond recalls it : ‘ we were very hot on sandwich courses , almost dogmatic about it for a time ’ . |