Example sentences of "be [v-ing] for time " in BNC.
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| 1 | well but the important thing is she 's engaged to be married I would reckon by the time she 's about twenty-six she 'll be looking for time out to have a family but by that time hopefully she 's and when she 's thirty-two or thirty-three can come back into the business and say I 've got a and the door opens that much more easily |
| 2 | This view was reflected by one observer in Rabat , who said : ‘ He ( King Hassan ) has so clearly been playing for time . |
| 3 | Perhaps , thought Robert , he had simply been playing for time and had now come up with a credible answer . |
| 4 | The governments , nervous , are playing for time . |
| 5 | She 's playing for time now you see . |
| 6 | Ann McAllister Olivarius in December 1989 moved to Virginia where her husband Jef McAllister is working for Time Magazine as its State Department correspondent ; she herself works as a lawyer for Perot Systems Corporation . |
| 7 | Neither , to his disappointment , did the blunt and usually outspoken Eleanor who had guessed , correctly , that Freddie was playing for time , hoping for news of his old flame . |
| 8 | It was obvious to Folly that he was playing for time . |
| 9 | However , after a second round of US-PLO talks in Tunis on March 22 , 1989 , the PLO leadership expressed fears that the USA lacked a specific programme for resolving the Palestinian issue , and was playing for time to secure a halt to the intifada ( " uprising " ) . |
| 10 | Neville Chamberlain has gone down in history , either as the politician who was duped by Hitler , or as a shrewd statesman who was playing for time , so Britain could re-arm . |
| 11 | She was stalling for time . |