Example sentences of "for [art] time i " in BNC.

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1 I do not expect much joy from the Minister tonight , but I give warning that , for the time I remain on these Benches , with the label on which I came here eight and a half years ago — as a Labour Member of Parliament , albeit a Member who has a label beneath his name on the TV as an expelled Labour Member — I shall bring before the House the necessary measures not just to talk about the death of the poll tax but to bury it once and for all .
2 She longed for the time I 've just got two in my gardeners .
3 Please forgive the shortish letter , but I am trying to catch up for the time I was ill , and have quite a heavy teaching programme .
4 So it 's I I counted it up for the time I 'm staying .
5 For a time I leaned on a rail and watched the rushing waters where the rivers Boyne and Blackwater combine .
6 The only other event at Huntingdon that I recall with any clarity was when I had my first ever flight in an aircraft — and for a time I was quite determined that it was going to be my last .
7 For a time I was — well , almost obsessed with that boy .
8 ‘ The transfer talk did get to me , I admit , and for a time I did n't know whether I was going or coming .
9 For a time I did n't know quite how to respond .
10 But Lawson then covers his back : ‘ For a time I was concerned that I might have made the wrong choice as Chief Secretary — a view I suspect was shared by John Major himself . ’
11 For a time I was his friend , but not for long .
12 For a time I could communicate only by raising my eyebrows when someone pointed to letters on a card .
13 But for a time I could not do that to Georg .
14 For a time I saw the folly of the recklessness of our affair .
15 ‘ My dear , dear fellow , if I had a lira for every time I 've heard that story … well … ’
16 I wish I had a pound for every time I have denied holding a meeting with the T & g .
17 I wish I had a pound for every time I 'd been asked that .
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