Example sentences of "it [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Anyway , let's forget it for the time being . |
| 2 | ‘ As a pledge of my sincerity in the matter of the crowning of Prince Richard , I leave it for the time being with you . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The photo was in there , too , but she left it for the time being . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I 'll second it for the time being . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I did not pay much attention to it as the time , because we had n't decided which peak we were going to attempt . |
| 9 | We never noticed it during the time it took for me to qualify and start work as an intern at St Andrew 's in Marylebone . |
| 10 | I told him what I said to you on the phone about should n't he be given a bit more obvious humanity because priests are n't great box-office nowadays and Vic said we 'd talk about it nearer the time . |
| 11 | Why have n't you done it in the time you 've been in ? |
| 12 | I 'll do it , I 'll do it in the time . |
| 13 | With the political will we could begin to change it from the time of the first by-election of the present parliament . |
| 14 | This County Council failed to do it from the time , time it was formed until eighty-five ; it failed even to address the problem , never mind do it , and we 've been trying to , to sort of do some catching up . |
| 15 | Except in a case to which Ord 11 , r 4(2) applies , the plaintiff is entitled to have the accepted sum paid out to him without any order of the court , if he accepts it within the time limited by the rule ( Ord 11 , r 4(1) ) . |
| 16 | Then all we have to do is sit on it until the time 's right , ’ Hitch told him . |
| 17 | He 'd never been through it since the time Barry had locked him in . |
| 18 | One of Leonard 's few memories of his father ( in addition to his monocle , his spats and his hair smelling of Vitalis ) is that of his reading , both privately and aloud , to him and his sister — precious moments that fired the young boy 's imagination and set him , although no one realised it at the time , in the direction of his life 's work . |
| 19 | ‘ We did not know it at the time but the torch we lit in Britain , which transformed our country — the torch of freedom that is now the symbol of our party — became a beacon that has shed its light across the Iron Curtain into the East . |
| 20 | Ah , I think the Foreign Office was trying to pursue the only sensible policy as it perceived it at the time , right through the entire period , um , since 1965 . |
| 21 | ‘ If we had wanted to deal with it at the time , we should have taken the action then . ’ |
| 22 | He could n't play it at the time , but it made some really great noises . |
| 23 | Unfortunately his foot was in it at the time and I slammed it , at which point he pulled out a badge and said he was a cop . |
| 24 | She would n't do it at the time , because she felt the whole issue ought to be allowed to settle down . |
| 25 | Yes , that 's how I perceived it at the time , but I was wrong . |
| 26 | No-one usin' it at the time so that was lucky too . ’ |
| 27 | So I read it and I gave a similar look back and I think I probably said something like that did n't happen or something along those lines , that 's hard to believe that had happened and passed it back to him and then that was it , we did not discuss it at the time … |
| 28 | That 's why I wrote to you about Herr Sussmeyer and enclosed the pubic hair , though I did n't realise it at the time . |
| 29 | Those who saw it at the time have never been able to erase the startling impact that it made when it was given its short-lived British premiere at Sadler 's Wells in 1965 . |
| 30 | The organisation of the celebrations on such a large scale was a major success for Pateman and although he could not have known it at the time he was in the final few months of his long and difficult years of service to the District and the WEA . |