Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] for [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Before any enactment existed with regard to actions by solicitors for their costs , a solicitor stood in the same position as any other person who has done work for another at his request , and could sue as soon as the work which he was retained to do was finished , without having delivered any signed bill of costs or waiting for any time after the delivery of such a bill . |
| 2 | The prices of certain goods too — notably manufactured goods — appear to be ‘ administered ’ , or set for some time so that they do not respond immediately to changes in supply and demand . |
| 3 | ‘ [ ‘ Terminus ’ ] in the understanding of the law does not only signify the limits and limitation of time , but also the estate and interest that passes for that time . |
| 4 | Computerisation , although established for some time in sales and administration , has been introduced to Production Control . |
| 5 | First , that we have no intention of abandoning public ownership and accepting for all time the present frontier of the public sector . |
| 6 | He was a brilliant scholar , and lived for some time at ‘ Titeup Hall , ’ Dalton . |
| 7 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 8 | I crept in beside him and lay for some time with throbbing head . |
| 9 | Although the famous gallery owner is thinking of retiring and has for some time been searching for an institution to take on his private collection , the title of the event ‘ TransForm ’ is not a veiled reference to his forthcoming conversion from art dealer to museum collector . |
| 10 | Above all , they will need your loving understanding and support for some time to come . |
| 11 | He asked about proceedings at Central Strike Headquarters and lingered for some time on the subject although he received no information . |
| 12 | Allowed to choose her hairdresser , Carole Ann Ford plumped for an up-and-coming young stylist she had known and visited for some time named Vidal Sassoon . |
| 13 | ‘ You drove to Penzance , leaving home at about seven-thirty , you went to the film and started to drive back , but your van broke down at Badger 's Cross and after trying to start it and sheltering for some time , you walked home , arriving at about half-past two . ’ |
| 14 | In its rough state , he showed it to the Professor , who bent his grey beard over the neat script , and read for some time in silence . |
| 15 | We wandered over Clare Bridge , which always looks as if it is about to collapse , and then up to St John 's , where we stood on the old Wren bridge and talked for some time , gazing at the so-called Bridge of Sighs which connects the old and new parts of St John 's . |
| 16 | The disquiet and consternation he had set up among the brothers would go on echoing and re-echoing for some time , while he who had caused it had recoiled into numbness and exhaustion . |
| 17 | I sit and stare for some time , wondering if he is sick . |
| 18 | She thought and thought for some time , and then she smiled . |
| 19 | His feet began to tap more and more loudly beneath the desk and his jaw quivered more and more violently as Blanche put her side of the story and pleaded for more time to finish the investigation . |
| 20 | She got up slowly from the table , washed up the mug , and stood for some time absolutely still , staring . |
| 21 | First appearing as tiny black spots on the upper surfaces of leaves , this is the outward sign that the fungus has already been inside the tissue and working for some time . |
| 22 | A Somali taxi-driver denounces those in his country who still think they can make a radical revolution , before turning to a discussion of the narcotic , khat , legally available in Britain but banned for some time in the US . |