Example sentences of "them [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big four have asked all Japanese corporations with equity-financing plans to postpone them for the time being . |
| 2 | The fact that his father behaved towards him for most of the time with mild , if somewhat unthinking kindness , did not rule out this possibility which is present at some time or other in most children 's minds : after all , if you were going to kill someone you would naturally go on being kind to them for the time being , giving them money for sweets and generally keeping up appearances . |
| 3 | But he dismissed them for the time being , having more important matters to be dealt with . |
| 4 | It was the first time I 've seen either Perberton and White so I 'll reserve judgement on them for the time being . |
| 5 | the general administration of the trust is ordinarily carried on outside the United Kingdom ; and 2. the trustees or a majority of them for the time being are not resident or not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom ( TCGA 1992 , s69(1) ) . |
| 6 | His Prince Hal is never a roaring boy : he sits hunched or sprawled , with dark unwinking eyes : he hopes to be amused by his bully companions , but the eyes constantly muse beyond them into the time when he must steady himself for the crown . |
| 7 | He and his wife had offered us accommodation with them from the time my curacy finished until after the expedition . |
| 8 | The researchers meet the guests first , and generally look after them from the time they arrive to the time they leave . |
| 9 | However , since fourteen topics were listed , even fairly full courses must have paid quite limited attention to any one topic , in order to cover all of them in the time available . |
| 10 | Eusebius traces them to the time of the Emperor Trajan , A.D. 98–117 . |
| 11 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 12 | Even the songs they sang on such occasions had a defiance in them , always remembering of course they had a drink in them at the time . |
| 13 | Students are required to notify the Academic Registrar immediately of any change in the information provided by them at the time of enrolment . |
| 14 | I was very prone to them at the time , mainly because I was undertaking only light and sometimes very spasmodic training . |
| 15 | But it does n't seem like that to them at the time . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | Although I was still ‘ tiny ’ ( a word used by one of them at the time ) by any normal standards , when I looked in the mirror , I saw someone who appeared to me to be ‘ gross ’ — a favourite word with anorexics , as Minuchin shows . |
| 18 | There was something between them at the time . ’ |
| 19 | Sequestered within were Pet Shop Boys NEIL TENNANT and CHRIS LOWE — who earlier had the hair-raising experience of being mobbed in the cinema by ticket-buying fans who , in their rush to obtain autographs with menaces , completely ignored a squirming BARNEY from NEW ORDER/ELECTRONIC who was sat next to them at the time . |
| 20 | Southerners are apt to fantasize on the phone , usually about someone with them at the time , often a work colleague . |
| 21 | When taking notes it is important to write down any new words or concepts , even if you do not understand them at the time . |
| 22 | I pooh-poohed them at the time . |
| 23 | Sometimes our bodies and minds seek excuses to experience griefs that we may have put aside or denied because we could n't face them at the time . |
| 24 | There 'd been a bench between them at the time . |
| 25 | Others wrote about what Walter Machin 's books had meant to them at the time of their publication , and to these Viola wrote faintly magisterial replies of thanks and interest which usually also contained subtle plugs for the two books which were as yet unpublished . |
| 26 | Human possums avoid conflict by agreeing with whichever side is talking to them at the time . |
| 27 | It is difficult to assess the long term benefit of such a campaign as individual cases now coming to light clearly heard some of the publicity which was beneficial to them at the time but did not result in them making a call at that particular time . |
| 28 | They can decide which pathways to follow and explore them at the time they ‘ read ’ the document . |
| 29 | The reasons that we need guidelines now is we had n't time to study them at the time and up to the present moment , as far as I 'm aware there 's one section that 's just been formed a couple of months ago . |
| 30 | In Gregory 's account , Chlodomer , before setting off to Vézeronce , asked his half-brother , Theuderic , to accompany him , and the latter agreed ; but when Childebert and Chlothar asked him to join them at the time of their later campaign against the Burgundian kingdom , he refused . |