Example sentences of "[verb] for a time [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hunt lived for a time as a tax exile in Marbella , sharing an estate with another ex model , Jane ‘ Hottie ’ Birbeck . |
| 2 | Presumably it saw service for iron working at some time , although in later life it was used for corn grinding , saw milling , as well as being operated for a time as a maltings . |
| 3 | The social person first moves out of his original position ( role ) ( " the rite of separation " ) ; he then exists for a time in a liminal condition , a threshold of time and space which is outside the ordinary world of secular affairs and is treated as in some way " sacred " ( Van Gennep 's " rite de marge " ) ; finally he moves back into secular society in his new position ( role ) ( " the rite of aggregation " ) . |
| 4 | Mr Bolona is equally welcome in financial circles in North America , where he worked for a time as a consultant on Latin American debt . |
| 5 | He became a trader in Nigeria and when this career failed , worked for a time as a clerk to Richard Beale Blaize , publisher of the short-lived Lagos Times . |
| 6 | While I was there , I went for a time to a sangha , a Buddhist religious community . |
| 7 | Although such testimony is important , it is a little unfortunate that Dobson 's influence led for a time to an undervaluing of occasional spellings , rhymes and puns . |
| 8 | He had been stationed for a time in a war hospital , once a lunatic asylum . |
| 9 | She had to sell her farm and work for a time in a department store . |
| 10 | In 1876 he built a high water tower , topped for a time with a telescope . |
| 11 | He works for a time as a gardener on the estate of the rich Mrs Mgulu , and later as a construction worker in her house . |
| 12 | Harriet works for a time in a ‘ gown-shop ’ and takes part in the rather gruesome beauty treatment of the other ‘ sales-ladies ’ . |