Example sentences of "it [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Anyway , let's forget it for the time being . |
| 3 | ‘ As a pledge of my sincerity in the matter of the crowning of Prince Richard , I leave it for the time being with you . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The photo was in there , too , but she left it for the time being . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I 'll second it for the time being . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I did not pay much attention to it as the time , because we had n't decided which peak we were going to attempt . |
| 10 | We never noticed it during the time it took for me to qualify and start work as an intern at St Andrew 's in Marylebone . |
| 11 | I told him what I said to you on the phone about should n't he be given a bit more obvious humanity because priests are n't great box-office nowadays and Vic said we 'd talk about it nearer the time . |
| 12 | Their backs even made it into The Times when the newspaper published names of the finishers . |
| 13 | I 'll do it in the time . |
| 14 | The first some of the Tank members knew of their fate was when they read it in The Times . |
| 15 | I saw it in The Times . |
| 16 | Er , it 's very difficult , yes you all laughed when I asked a question last year from over there to get a capital P in Pearson because you all laughed it took twenty weeks to get it in The Times , do you remember ? |
| 17 | Why have n't you done it in the time you 've been in ? |
| 18 | I 'll do it , I 'll do it in the time . |
| 19 | With the political will we could begin to change it from the time of the first by-election of the present parliament . |
| 20 | This County Council failed to do it from the time , time it was formed until eighty-five ; it failed even to address the problem , never mind do it , and we 've been trying to , to sort of do some catching up . |
| 21 | Except in a case to which Ord 11 , r 4(2) applies , the plaintiff is entitled to have the accepted sum paid out to him without any order of the court , if he accepts it within the time limited by the rule ( Ord 11 , r 4(1) ) . |
| 22 | Then all we have to do is sit on it until the time 's right , ’ Hitch told him . |
| 23 | He 'd never been through it since the time Barry had locked him in . |
| 24 | Can you send it to The Times ? ’ |
| 25 | Vince has has raised a point about er erm , informing er and consulting local people and to let local people know erm when the meetings are then local ca n't go , I 'm sure that if they really wanted people to come they 'd make it much more er , in erm with the advertising so clear that er people would be able to and also if they had it at the times when a their meeting at the times when it was mostly convenient to er , the general public . |
| 26 | One of Leonard 's few memories of his father ( in addition to his monocle , his spats and his hair smelling of Vitalis ) is that of his reading , both privately and aloud , to him and his sister — precious moments that fired the young boy 's imagination and set him , although no one realised it at the time , in the direction of his life 's work . |
| 27 | ‘ We did not know it at the time but the torch we lit in Britain , which transformed our country — the torch of freedom that is now the symbol of our party — became a beacon that has shed its light across the Iron Curtain into the East . |
| 28 | Ah , I think the Foreign Office was trying to pursue the only sensible policy as it perceived it at the time , right through the entire period , um , since 1965 . |
| 29 | ‘ If we had wanted to deal with it at the time , we should have taken the action then . ’ |
| 30 | He could n't play it at the time , but it made some really great noises . |