Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being an MP still carried some weight ; he was PPS to a powerful minister at Defence , and the threat of the General Election had rolled away for the time being : he was someone to heed . |
| 2 | In East Africa a gracile and a robust form of man–ape seem to have coincided and overlapped ecologically for a time — perhaps in a manner comparable to chimpanzees and gorillas in certain areas of their ranges today . |
| 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 | The only major event of the campaign , the call by Michel Rocard for a political ‘ big bang ’ on the Left to allow the creation of a new , broad based , social democratic party , appears to have fizzled out for the time being . |
| 5 | The enemy artillery had opened up , lobbing heated roundshot on to the ice , smashing it into a multitude of floes , upon which men perched perilously for a time before toppling off into the lake . |
| 6 | After that everything between them became easy for the time being . |
| 7 | Yeah , hold on for a time , I 'll be with you in a minute . |
| 8 | Whereby the whole church family , broke up into groups for a period of education , and then came together for a time of celebration and worship . |
| 9 | Kirov fell silent , knowing that he had said enough for the time being . |
| 10 | There are indications that the mill was turned over for a time for saw milling , and possibly even cider production . |
| 11 | Nylon yarn was made there for a time along with Cellophane packaging film , carpets and circular knitted fabrics . |
| 12 | Besides these major product innovations , the eurobond market has seen a plethora of subsidiary innovations , many of which have been one off or flourished only for a time . |
| 13 | Press restrictions were imposed ( but quickly lifted ) and the weekly current affairs magazine Caretas was closed down for a time , commentators thereby inferring that the chief target of the coup was APRA . |
| 14 | Mr Patten stays on for the time being as party chairman while he and Mr Major consider what should happen . |
| 15 | Young Philip was employed there for a time before going abroad , taking over during his father 's trips into the country where some landowners Sought his practical advice , particularly with regard to establishing plantations of hitherto unknown trees from abroad . |
| 16 | Sometimes it 's free ( or , to put it another way , you pay only for the time you access the system ) , at other times you pay per ‘ page ’ of information you read . |
| 17 | They can only be set aside for a time . |
| 18 | The result was that the story was set aside for the time being . |
| 19 | The forces of Chaos are driven back for a time and a fragile peace descends on Ulthuan . |
| 20 | Yes , she worked here for a time . ’ |
| 21 | " Did he die almost immediately , or is there any possibility that he could have walked about for a time , even locked the door and set the alarms ? " |
| 22 | Three of the four students not looking for employment and without plans to continue their studies would be travelling overseas for a time before commencing job search . |
| 23 | William Barnes , a distant Stanhope cousin , lived here for a time , but for most of its life it has been a farmhouse , which it remains . |
| 24 | Franz Kafka lived here for a time . |
| 25 | In time to come , will someone else walk these halls and remember the Wolfqueen who lived here for a time , but who brought the Cruithin out of hiding , and drove Medoc from the Bright Palace ? |
| 26 | So we sort of like trying to hang on for the time being about the door . |
| 27 | ‘ Gone away for a time . ’ |
| 28 | He struck out at them and soared upwards and they fell away for a time . |
| 29 | In order to defuse this rivalry , Dycarbas resolves that both sons should leave home for a time . |
| 30 | Depends on time you go out for a time |