Example sentences of "for [pron] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 12 ) The histories of cease and quit are less varied but the senses found for them in earlier times help explain some of the semantic differences that will be described below . |
| 2 | This is just the objectivity which is to be claimed in general for the good ; what is good for me now is not necessarily good for you or for me at other times , nor even what I now spontaneously prefer , it is what anyone would spontaneously prefer for me if sufficiently aware from my present viewpoint . |
| 3 | It was too large for me at that time , but over the next twelve months I must have grown considerably because , with wooden blocks fixed on the pedals , I was able to reach it in comparative comfort . |
| 4 | I had about ten staff working for me at that time , all girls and women , supervised by the Senior Clerkess , Emily Lightbody . |
| 5 | For me by this time the Eleven-plus was looming up , and in the conventional manner , I was promised a bike if I passed . |
| 6 | He was fixed for me in this time , this pose . |
| 7 | Pat Williams told me she thought they were' a load of tripe' , but it was tripe that brought people into the cinemas for more than two decades and Ken became the staple part of a diet for which at one time the public seemed to have an insatiable appetite |
| 8 | So I 'll get some tables for you for next time erm if |
| 9 | You will feel totally alone because you have relied on someone to do things with you and for you for some time . |
| 10 | ‘ The chief ‘ s been asking for you for some time , Mr Wycliffe . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You can resign in the complete knowledge that should you ever want to come back there will be a position here for you at any time . ’ |
| 12 | Your answers will provide you with general categories of physical activities that are appropriate for you at this time . |
| 13 | Stratford responded by invoking Magna Carta 's principle of trial by peers , which for him at that time meant trial by the lords in parliament . |
| 14 | ‘ And no address for her at that time ? |
| 15 | It was really for myself at that time , in the same way that my buying the picture by Stubbs of ‘ Pumpkin with a Stable Lad ’ in 1936 was for myself . |
| 16 | The fact is that , in an age when players were never encouraged or expected to be adaptable , the only positions that Billy did not fill for us at one time or another were those of goalkeeper , centre-forward and centre-half . |
| 17 | ‘ Andy makes crucial saves for us at vital times in matches and we have actually come to expect that of him , ’ said Gough . |