Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] for a time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Country Jacobitism had for a time in the early 1690s represented an alliance of disillusioned Whigs and Tories , it nevertheless ended up as a platform which drew support almost exclusively from Tories . |
| 2 | It was quite different , however , when through parental death or disaster a grandchild went for a time to be brought up by grandparents . |
| 3 | Hunt lived for a time as a tax exile in Marbella , sharing an estate with another ex model , Jane ‘ Hottie ’ Birbeck . |
| 4 | In the famous Middletown studies made by Robert and Helen Lynd the Lynds lived for a time in Muncie , Indiana , but were always known to be researchers . |
| 5 | Margaret Clifton taught for a time in England , and then at the British Institute School in Madrid . |