Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] for [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he dismissed them for the time being , having more important matters to be dealt with . |
| 2 | Would that suit you for the time being , Graham ? |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Let us for the time being not take a stand on this issue but address ourselves to the whole phenomenon in its strong sense . |
| 6 | 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 … . ‘ |
| 7 | In order to appreciate something which is above and beyond ourselves we have to rid ourselves for a time of our sophistication and , in the words of Jesus Christ , become as little children again . |
| 8 | When you show disapproval to a dog , reinforce this by ignoring him for a time . |
| 9 | If you do exercise one for the time being do n't worry about that one , exercise three . |
| 10 | The big four have asked all Japanese corporations with equity-financing plans to postpone them for the time being . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Carry on seeing him for the time being . |
| 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 | For example , there is a right way and a wrong way of answering a stranger who has asked you for the time . |
| 16 | ‘ Anyway , let's forget it for the time being . |
| 17 | Those radicals ( among whom Gaitskell was , oddly , not numbered ) who wanted to abolish the public schools , or amalgamate them somehow into the maintained system , persuaded themselves for a time that if this were done , and if everyone had a chance to take the 11 + and compete for a place at a grammar school , then justice would have been done and educational standards would be secure . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | Hakim was used to transactions where ‘ all parameters are not known , you leave it for the times that things are known ’ , but this business proceeded on a plane that was ‘ intangible ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ As a pledge of my sincerity in the matter of the crowning of Prince Richard , I leave it for the time being with you . |
| 21 | They admire themselves for a time . |
| 22 | He then provided : ‘ I wish whatever legacies I have left to be paid by you , my dear son , and if any debt shall emerge , if I had borrowed anything for a time and shall owe it , I wish it to be paid by you , so that what I have left your sister may pass to her undiminished . ’ |
| 23 | He said nothing for a time . |
| 24 | I thought he and you , both of you , had deceived me about your relationship — the way Suzanna and Raich deceived me for a time . |
| 25 | We thank you for the times when it moves us to be in your presence together . |
| 26 | Okay , Carol , thank you for the time you 've given to us to see it . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The photo was in there , too , but she left it for the time being . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Agnes sighed , then bit on the front of her forefinger before she turned to Jessie again and said , ‘ Look ; if you 're so sure he 'll turn up , we 'll say nothing for the time being . |