Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] for [art] time " in BNC.

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1 the general administration of the trust is ordinarily carried on outside the United Kingdom ; and 2. the trustees or a majority of them for the time being are not resident or not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom ( TCGA 1992 , s69(1) ) .
2 Formula feeds without lactose are available , and your doctor may be able to prescribe one for you for a time , if your baby has had gastroenteritis and continues to have colic or diarrhoea afterwards .
3 I 've got my er seventeen year old granddaughter staying with me for the time being
4 I wo n't be in touch with you for a time and I do n't want you starting a panic . ’
5 Artegall remains with her for a time and restores order :
6 Later , Baxter 's father and step-mother also came to live with him for a time .
7 Later , Baxter 's father and step-mother also came to live with him for a time .
8 John Aubrey [ q.v. ] may have lodged with him for a time .
9 But if cheating is necessary , you can commonly get away with it for a time .
10 There is a real danger in only doing the classical things — you 're OK with it for a time , but then you 're left high and dry when fashion moves on . ’
11 You may be with us unwillingly , but you are certainly with us for the time being . ’
12 Not the clankings and gratings of the Zoo which lay off in the distance to his right , now obscured by the trees over which he had flown in the night , but the call of a thousand birds whose busyness and life shook his fears off him for a time and replaced them with a sense of wonder .
13 The fact that his father behaved towards him for most of the time with mild , if somewhat unthinking kindness , did not rule out this possibility which is present at some time or other in most children 's minds : after all , if you were going to kill someone you would naturally go on being kind to them for the time being , giving them money for sweets and generally keeping up appearances .
14 He may have been dependent on me for the time being for his physical well-being , but at the deepest level he was dependent on Montaine .
15 It was the first time I 've seen either Perberton and White so I 'll reserve judgement on them for the time being .
16 They 're more likely to leave George 's reins to you for the time being .
17 Jane had come to us for the time being .
18 As Sir Alan Richmond recalls it : ‘ we were very hot on sandwich courses , almost dogmatic about it for a time ’ .
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