Example sentences of "for [pron] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After having been a teacher in my past , my best answer is this : kids always seem to want to learn stuff that 's way to hard for them at the time . |
| 2 | Yeah , but the thing is right they 're sevens and they 're gon na be too small for them by the time holiday gets round say September |
| 3 | The bigger problem for me at the time was the way the orchestra was playing . |
| 4 | Whether he had had plans laid for me at the time , or whether at the back of his mind , hidden from consciousness , he knew that in taking me to live with him he would be enrolling someone to deal with the business side of his life , I was never sure . |
| 5 | You stopped because you both decided it was the right thing to do for you at the time . |
| 6 | Phone if you want me to saddle up the mare and I 'll have her ready for you by the time you get down here . ’ |
| 7 | We know nothing about its rulers , except for one about the time of the conquest , whose name began with the letter ‘ A ’ . |
| 8 | After attempting to speak to his ex-girl friend on the telephone and finding she was out he decided to have another drink , and then started to think about taking some tablets which his GP had prescribed for him at the time when his girl friend had left him . |
| 9 | ‘ We tried to sign Chris Waddle , but it was not right for him at the time . |
| 10 | ‘ We tried to sign Chris Waddle , but it was not right for him at the time , we went for Peter Beardsley , but it was not right for Everton . |
| 11 | It seems odd , in retrospect , to see governments delegating so passively their most important educational function , but there were two main reasons for it at the time . |
| 12 | If I could have thought of a use for it at the time , I would have stayed and bid . |
| 13 | Erm , as the person who mo , moved the original motion , I would be very happy to move the recommendations , and to thank Mr , Mrs , Mr and Mr , who are the only members here present who voted for it at the time . |
| 14 | With a bit of luck , she would be begging for it by the time he came back . |
| 15 | But if apprenticeship was to work as its devisers hoped it relied upon the interest of freedmen in working for themselves in the time they were allotted and their generosity if their work for their former masters was to be energetic . |
| 16 | How else to account for what at the time seemed wildly erratic behaviour , when in 1977 a group of distinguished architects and others , members of the newly formed Spitalfields Trust , squatted in two derelict early Georgian houses in Elder Street , thwarting the property developer 's bulldozers by sheer persistence . |
| 17 | He tried to realign retrospectively things he had written many years before , for what at the time had been entirely adequate reasons . |
| 18 | Especially with songs like Too Much , which was in an unusual key for us at the time . |
| 19 | Although it felt like a miraculous coincidence for us at the time , it was more that we were all ready to grapple with this issue in our lives . |
| 20 | Fortunately for us at the time there was not the amount of light flak associated with later years , or that which was spawned by some of the Cheshire low level attacks . |
| 21 | Er clearly when we have got that situation , we do n't just simply put the numbers in and press the button and you get the answer out at the end , er the people who er did this for us at the time , er are professional er transportation consultants er and given that the key er one of the key outputs from this model was the effect of a er a bypass , then this is something that we looked at in in some detail as well as er the actual effects that the model was putting out . |