Example sentences of "[vb pp] for [art] time [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elsewhere in the country , one polling station in the south was occupied for a time by Khmer Rouge troops , who eventually stole a UN car and left . |
| 2 | Both Dalton and Alexander , the First Lord of the Admiralty , argued at meetings of the committee that Germany should be deprived of war-making industries , though not to the extent of the ‘ pastoralisation ’ proposed by Henry Morgenthau , the US Secretary of the Treasury , and accepted for a time by Churchill and Roosevelt at their meeting at Quebec in September 1944 . |
| 3 | During my first year as a prisoner some of us were moved for a time from Silesia to a camp in the Polish corridor . |
| 4 | With the retirement of Thomas Goldney the firm reverted for a time to Pountney and Co , and eventually became known simply as the Bristol Pottery until its cessation in the 1960s . |
| 5 | Emma , committed to the cause of her son Harthacnut in the succession dispute of 1035 – 40 , and exiled for a time to Flanders as a result , seemingly wished to forget her previous marriage to Æthelred . |
| 6 | He had lived for a time in England , and we discussed whether to conduct the session in English or German . |
| 7 | He lived at Charing Cross in 1585 , in 1589–90 in Writtington , Essex , by 1596 he writes from ‘ my house in Hamsell Park , Sussex ’ , while early in the 1600s he may have lived for a time in Isleworth , Middlesex . |