Example sentences of "for [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If you have been away from nurse education for some time you will be very pleasantly surprised by the much more interactive and civilised approach to learning apparent in most schools and colleges of nursing . |
| 32 | Carbon monoxide has no smell and if your appliance has n't been services for some time you may now be in danger . |
| 33 | For some time he walked up and down in silence . |
| 34 | For some time he hung like a bird watching it . |
| 35 | For some time he listened as the sounds drew nearer . |
| 36 | For some time he had ignored rumours to that effect but now , he told reporters , he was " immensely pleased " . |
| 37 | Hoping that , in the changed climate of opinion in England , he would soon be granted a pardon , Kinloch returned secretly to London , where for some time he remained under cover until early in 1823 he returned clandestinely to Scotland . |
| 38 | In 1841 he joined Messrs Fox & Henderson in Smethwick near Birmingham , where for some time he held the post of chief draughtsman and designer . |
| 39 | The gendarme stood bewildered for a moment , and then ran into the street , where for some time he could be heard blowing his whistle . |
| 40 | For some time he had thought her one of the most beautiful girls he had ever seen . |
| 41 | but , for some time he , and it , it just used to let him get it out of his system |
| 42 | For some time he struggles to explain this feeling , and eventually he realises that the taste is of course exactly the taste which he enjoyed as a small boy when his Aunt Léonie gave him a madeline dipped in an infusion . |
| 43 | For some time it seems I 've been talking to myself . |
| 44 | It did n't require much capital to manufacture the equipment or produce the short films , and for some time it was possible for small craftsmen on the British model to keep up with the big boys in France or the US . |
| 45 | However , where a discriminatory practice has been in operation for some time it may be easier for the Commission for Racial Equality to produce evidence in support of an allegation . |
| 46 | For some time it was suspected that Camp Mill was the site , but this now appears unlikely . |
| 47 | For some time it has been suspected that these voltages affect aquarium fish , causing stress and possibly disease . |
| 48 | For some time it stood as the seventh ‘ port ’ in the kingdom , despite the fact that its quays were some distance away ; its merchants had exclusive rights over trade in much of western Sussex for most of the later middle ages . |
| 49 | For some time it has been evident that all I am to you is a vessel to receive your seed . |
| 50 | After independence 200,000 Europeans fled the city and for some time it appeared to be uninhabited , a city decimated by plague . |
| 51 | The letter , ‘ I ca n't forgo principles ’ , was reportedly published at the behest of Ligachev and for some time it was believed that Andreeva was the pseudonym of a conservative member of the leadership . |
| 52 | Di Scott , of Fairbridge , explained : ‘ After the ship had been in operation for some time it was realised that a great deal of money was needed for maintenance and running costs . |
| 53 | The Scottish Dairy Trade Federation has said for some time it is not happy with that . |
| 54 | For some time it has had career breaks to help women ( and occasionally men ) with family needs and he says it has been successful . |
| 55 | This proved to be a blessing , for this time I noticed a piece of fabric , like the backing of a sticking plaster , wedged in the tubing that connected the cylinder to the burner . |
| 56 | I determined that it should not happen again and it seemed impossible that it should for this time I should carry with me the foundation of happiness which I had found behind the wire . |
| 57 | The extra detail visible in the monkey 's brain might just be a consequence of it being bigger than the rat 's , but a comparison between the somatosensory cortices of the two animals shows that this is n't so , for this time it is in the rat that the extra detail is visible . |
| 58 | Others say no — for this time it is the British and the Americans who are throwing him out . |
| 59 | For this time it was an army , no less , ten thousand strong , though its actions were still those of simple border reivers . |
| 60 | Now , I leave entirely on one side the question why on earth the present ratio between profits and incomes generally is so supremely right that for all time it ought to be preserved , or at any rate allowed only to diminish , regardless of anything else that happens , such as the growth of savings and accumulation of capital . |