Example sentences of "for [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an effort even to fetch coal from outside , and a herculean struggle was called for each time I opened the garage doors which faced the prevailing gales . |
| 2 | And so for that time we live now , both of us , and we are perfectly happy , and the waiting is not weary , but good and happy for us both . |
| 3 | Was I think he said it were about twenty six pound a week for that time you see ? |
| 4 | Despite constructing one of their most positive displays for some time they lost to a French team who profited from the only genuine opportunities they created . |
| 5 | Gradually they learn to discriminate , although for some time they can not determine what is influencing the mother 's movements towards or away from them . |
| 6 | Because the group had known her and her children for some time they agreed to ‘ have a go ’ and the placement went ahead . |
| 7 | In his introduction to the environmental policy document which will be issued to employees in 1993 , Chief Executive Kneale Ashwell explains : ‘ For some time we have recognised the need for a policy to increase awareness , to deal with environmental issues and to implement systems which ensure the Company complies with all relevant legislation and manages the essential attitudinal and behavioural changes that are likely to affect business operations . |
| 8 | For some time we have been promised legislation to reform the laws on friendly societies . |
| 9 | The Court of Appeal decided to undertake a review of the basic principles of the law in this area and as this has not been done for some time we now set out in detail what they held . |
| 10 | Area manager Beth Robinson says : ‘ Our business in Finaghy has steadily increased year by year and for some time we have been looking for premises , in a prominent location , which would give us the space we now need . |
| 11 | For some time we 've been in a false position and our two games against Birmingham have confirmed this . |
| 12 | So for some time She-She and I talked very seriously about the future Princess of Wales . |
| 13 | For some time she had done all that was possible to avoid going out in the rain as she could not bear the thought of the water touching her skin . |
| 14 | For some time she had felt a curious weightiness , then sudden relief . |
| 15 | For some time she looked round the garden for them and then went into the house . |
| 16 | For some time she stayed with the Kleibers . |
| 17 | My little girl Natasha was with a friend at the time and because my mum had n't seen me for some time she was concerned . |
| 18 | For some time she has been head dancer of a troupe and has travelled extensively abroad , taking part in cabaret on land and aboard cruise ships . |
| 19 | As many of you will have noticed from your Q.T. day programme Beryl will not be teaching this year ; for some time she has taken a great interest in the Back Pain Association and has now become involved particularly at weekends in special classes for back-pain sufferers . |
| 20 | After living rough for some time she decided that we offered the best chance of a home , and moved in Fizzy 's attitude is ambivalent . |
| 21 | I apologize for using the semimetaphorical terms ‘ hard ’ and ‘ soft ’ in this essay , but after puzzling over the matter for some time I can see no other way of setting about it . |
| 22 | They waved once and I waved back , and for some time I could see their bright jackets in the dappled shade of the afternoon sun . |
| 23 | For some time I had nourished a wish to write a war memoir , and after a while , and with the approach of the fifteenth anniversary of the start of the war , the desire became urgent . |
| 24 | Would it be feasible , I asked myself , to fill what for some time I had thought was a serious gap in British military history , namely a socio-military chronicle of the last hundred years of the army 's mounted arm ? |
| 25 | For some time I could not speak . |
| 26 | For some time I was baffled by a sentence in his argument that the theoretical removal of the authority of the author by the critic , Stanley Fish , has no way of dealing with misprints : ‘ His book happens to be full of misprints . |
| 27 | For some time I had wanted to move further from London with its many social distractions , and now with the half million words of notes I had brought back with me from my world tour waiting to be distilled into a book , I felt the need more than ever . |
| 28 | For some time I have been thinking of increasing it to £50pa but have n't got to the bank with this weather . |
| 29 | For some time I was left standing at the counter but eventually one of four assistants came over , introduced himself to me as Mr Palmer and asked how he could help . |
| 30 | If you have struggled alone for some time you may be pleasantly surprised at what is now available to you . |