Example sentences of "and for a time [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fabric boots then multiplied , and for a time they looked like sleeping the market , but their disadvantages in poor conditions did not offset their greater comfort in good ones , and some substantial improvement in waterproofing was needed before this could take place . |
| 2 | Before they lost Richard Biddle with a hamstring injury , the Quakers looked like they could actually match the ex-Premier League side and for a time they promised to take the lead . |
| 3 | You can always look back and say " What if " , but we must remember that we got ourselves out of a couple of scrapes on last two days and for a time we looked absolutely terrible , but we turned it around and could have won . |
| 4 | ‘ The transfer talk did get to me , I admit , and for a time I did n't know whether I was going or coming . |
| 5 | Fergus had not been aware of the precise moment when the Lad of the Skins drew his soul from his body with the Knife of Light , but he had known a great coldness , and a sense of desolation , and an abandonment so complete that it had overwhelmed him , and for a time he had scarcely been aware of what was happening . |
| 6 | Jeremy was swiftly ejected from his first job , at the Rotherham Advertiser and for a time he made Paddington Bears for a living . |
| 7 | Instead he became a prolific journalist , contributing to at least four daily newspapers , as well as several provincial weeklies ; and for a time he assisted Thomas Hansard [ q.v. ] in publishing parliamentary reports . |
| 8 | Reza Khan had promised Ironside that he would not depose Ahmad Shah and for a time he did not . |
| 9 | His death quite literally shattered the Prince and for a time he lost all sense of purpose . |
| 10 | In February 1973 an eruption suddenly burst out on the tiny island of Heimaey , and for a time it seemed as though the town of Heimaey , Iceland 's biggest fishing port , would be destroyed . |
| 11 | Gower , in at No. 5 , was left 18 not out , and for a time it seemed that the match had been swung . |
| 12 | Writer Brian Clark gave me the persona of a middle-class , middle-aged professional with a wife problem and for a time it became my trademark . |
| 13 | We started many years ago by believing that innovation and uniqueness would provide the revenue to give us a good return , and for a time it did . |