Example sentences of "for [adj] time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were probably other factors at work , which have since slipped automatically into place , but the needs expressed above were evident , being expressed by a range of people , and provided a justification for investing time and resource in trying to establish a partnership with industry . |
| 2 | Every society requires its witnesses : those who are not afraid to render and preserve in words the range and scope of human experience for that time and that place . |
| 3 | Having decided how long the intervention is to last , ask the parents to run it for that time and then immediately return to the baseline condition . |
| 4 | His father was forty-nine , his mother forty-two and he weighed twelve pounds — remarkable for that time and place . |
| 5 | Clear away , saving the spirit for another time if its not too dirty . |
| 6 | She had undressed many men , she had read somewhere that nakedness was safest , because with the mystery gone humans were just humans , not that exciting , nothing special , and she believed it , for some times and for some human beings . |
| 7 | If yer really want ter know I 've been courtin' a widow for some time an' we 're thinkin' of settlin' down tergether , ’ he replied . |
| 8 | The uproar in the kitchen continued for some time while Nanny pressed his face against her coat and added her own voice to the tumult . |
| 9 | The three men stood together for some time while the long-faced sheep ambled around them , sometimes coming close to examine them but scuttering away at the slightest of their movements , sending a ripple of bells through the whole flock . |
| 10 | She had lived there for some time although it is not known where she lived before coming to Darlington . |
| 11 | For some time before this heavy clouds had increased and in the west the sky had become a dense purplish-black , a range of mountainous cumulus against which the outlines of buildings took on a curious clarity and the trees stood out livid and sickly bright . |
| 12 | He became very depressed for some time before he could reassess himself , start to use his considerable abilities and begin courting his wife again . |
| 13 | It was so faint that he had to look at it for some time before he could make any sense of it . |
| 14 | She stumbled on in this manner for some time before I talked her into accepting a chair and a cuppa . |
| 15 | That was still untended and wild ; the house had been empty for some time before they bought it , or rather Mr Paul had . |
| 16 | This polychrome type of design seems to have been invented at Knossos , where it was fashionable for some time before it was adopted generally in the east of Crete . |
| 17 | Whenever I put food out around a sett prior to an evening watch , I can usually hear a badger munching a peanut or two for some time before the first animal comes into view . |
| 18 | She had to wait for some time before the door was opened , and she hoped very much that it would be opened by Clelia , but it was not ; it was opened by a thin , brown , balding , youngish looking man . |
| 19 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
| 20 | Indeed , it should be emphasized that Picasso had been dissatisfied with the limitations imposed on pictorial volumes by a scientific or linear system of perspective for some time before he became aware of the fact that Cézanne 's painting suggested a new concept of form and space . |
| 21 | ‘ They had known each other for some time before they married , though , had n't they ? ’ ventured Greg . |
| 22 | She found the trug in the outhouse , not the kitchen , and cleaned it before trotting off towards the rectory , which was quite a long walk from Vetch Street , through a rowdy street market where an organ-grinder and his monkey were performing , and a Punch and Judy man stood on the corner , and Sally-Anne — no longer McAllister now that she was out of the house — for all of her advanced years stood and watched Mr Punch for some time before she guiltily remembered what she was supposed to be doing . |
| 23 | so it meant that for some time before contingency fund development was introduced you must of had some concerns er about the accuracy of the figures you were putting forward for the publication , can , can I explain that a little more ? if after a few years a major repair needs to be carried out there was no contingency fund , it might mean sticking another two or three hundred pounds a year on the service charges , might it not , to cover a major repair |
| 24 | ‘ I was there for some time before you arrived , Caroline . |
| 25 | He had been sitting by the fire for some time before he decided to open the letter . |
| 26 | There are those who would tell you that BMW 's reputation for first-class finish has been on thin ice for some time but , until now , we 've seen little evidence to substantiate the claim . |
| 27 | Tubbs and Lewis ran the mill for some time but finally ceased production there . |
| 28 | Most of the songs on ‘ Bizarro ’ had been regulars in the live set for some time but newer ones like ‘ Crushed ’ and ‘ Brassneck ’ were aired for the first time over the August Bank Holiday at the Reading Festival and John Peel 's 50th birthday party on August 29 . |
| 29 | I watched it for some time but there 's nobody about . |
| 30 | With help from Wood Green Animal Shelters , Serpell made contact with people who had not had pets for some time but who were now about to get a dog or cat . |