Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] for the time " in BNC.

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1 But he dismissed them for the time being , having more important matters to be dealt with .
2 Would that suit you for the time being , Graham ?
3 But if you wanted a single bed moving , then the cheapest way would be just to have one man , he comes we charge you for the time we take , with a minimum of an hour 's charge .
4 Let us for the time being not take a stand on this issue but address ourselves to the whole phenomenon in its strong sense .
5 Mrs A. W. wrote : ‘ I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the time and effort you have put into compiling this diet which has made a bigger difference to my weight and dimensions than any other diet I have been on … . ‘
6 If you do exercise one for the time being do n't worry about that one , exercise three .
7 The big four have asked all Japanese corporations with equity-financing plans to postpone them for the time being .
8 By that method we fix our minds on some central point : we suppose it for the time to be reduced to a stationary state ; and we then study in relation to it the forces that affect the things by which it is surrounded , and any tendency there may be to equilibrium of these forces .
9 Ever since John Marshall , its first chief justice , discovered that the court had the ability to overturn legislation that did not accord with the constitution , it has been indispensable in bolstering the central tenet of American democracy : that no grant of governmental power to those who exercise it for the time being is limitless .
10 ‘ Carry on seeing him for the time being .
11 A girl from one of the other teams — for all of us had assembled by now — asked him for the time and briefly discussed the weather with him and when , after about 15 minutes , he struck off purposefully around a nearby playing field , he had a tail of 14 people — the entire membership of all four spy teams — determined not to lose their quarry .
12 For example , there is a right way and a wrong way of answering a stranger who has asked you for the time .
13 ‘ Anyway , let's forget it for the time being .
14 ‘ As a pledge of my sincerity in the matter of the crowning of Prince Richard , I leave it for the time being with you .
15 Okay , Carol , thank you for the time you 've given to us to see it .
16 The photo was in there , too , but she left it for the time being .
17 And a and also , I mean , it was , and it was a Panasonic one this , erm what you do , if you were doing a jacket top potato , you er would weigh the potato and , and then erm put in the weight , say it was six ounces , and all you do then is press erm jacket potato , you do n't have to put any time , it automatically does it for the time .
18 Agnes sighed , then bit on the front of her forefinger before she turned to Jessie again and said , ‘ Look ; if you 're so sure he 'll turn up , we 'll say nothing for the time being .
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