Example sentences of "time [pron] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first she 'd given no thought to missing for a month , putting it down to the trauma of losing Pa , but by the time nothing showed for the third month running there could be no doubt that the worst had happened . |
| 2 | This is the time everyone gathers for a special dinner , which is based on fish , and in keeping with Italian tradition eel is cooked and served in many homes . |
| 3 | I had my ideas worked out by the time I left for the 1960–61 Tasman series , and on the 24-hour flight to New Zealand I sat with a slide rule and drew the car as a pin-jointed structure , stressed it and arrived at all the tube sizes . ’ |
| 4 | The last time I went for a smear and a blood pressure check and various things sh I , I said are you doing cholesterol checks ? |
| 5 | ‘ It was the first time I played for the County . |
| 6 | Every time I go for a wee I en she comes with me and pulls a load off to bloody blow her nose ! |
| 7 | To summarize , where know means " experience directly " , the knowing is frequently represented as accompanying the action experienced , instant by instant , throughout its duration — a coincidence in time which calls for the bare infinitive . |
| 8 | With repairs completed in the nick of time she sailed for the operation with a depleted crew . |
| 9 | Instead of the expected explosion , Charlie said softly and mildly ‘ Time you slept for a change . ’ |
| 10 | So , next time you prepare for the carve gybe think your way through it and imagine what it feels like to bear away , bending the knees and , at the end , flipping the rig . |
| 11 | It is almost summer , high time you decamped for a fortnight . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's time we left for the NEC , ’ Myra said , her eyes darting from Claudia to Roman and back again . |
| 13 | When 's the last time we went for a meal ? |
| 14 | Every time we go for a Chinese |
| 15 | It will be dry by the time we leave for the dance . ’ |
| 16 | At one time they hoped for a family . |
| 17 | There must , in fact , be few marriages in which temporary sexual difficulties do not arise and , as we have seen , at any one time they exist for a fair proportion of married adults . |
| 18 | It was raining by the time they stopped for the night . |
| 19 | Consequently Paige 's nerves were stretched as tight as a drum by the time they stopped for the night on the banks of one of the streams they had waded through . |
| 20 | By the time they toured for the first time , in 1985 , they seemed silly — nothing dates as fast as an advertisement . |
| 21 | And what a long time it took for a tradesman to recover what he was owed ! |
| 22 | The City took a dim view of what it regarded as the inordinate amount of time it took for the group to return a profit there . |
| 23 | But in the fraction of time it took for the dogs to renew their attack , Angel One 's combat-trained eye registered something vital . |
| 24 | He added that he was concerned about the time it took for the incident to be reported to the Inspectorate of Pollution and the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate . |
| 25 | The amount of time it takes for a lizard to turn into a bird ; love |
| 26 | Whatever the answer , do not fall into the trap of imagining that the impact of a flood in one of this year 's drought-ridden rivers will pass as quickly as the time it takes for the river to ‘ look ’ normal again . |
| 27 | Because the Moon revolves around the Earth , the lunar day — the time it takes for the Moon to appear at equal heights above the horizon on successive occasions — is longer than 24 hours . |
| 28 | Phosphate is the least problem and , perhaps because of the almost profligate use of bone meal and the very long time it takes for the phosphate to be released by bacterial decomposition , is very seldom indeed the cause for worry . |
| 29 | The rate at which it does this is measured as a " time constant " — defined as the time it takes for the output to return 63 per cent of the way to baseline , after a shift in input voltage level . |
| 30 | One of the extraordinary features of British economic management over the past fifty years has been the inability of those in charge to comprehend the workings of ‘ lags ’ : the time it takes for the effect of a change in policy to work through the economy . |