Example sentences of "[noun prp] for a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 681 to Malmesbury ( CS 59 : S 71 ) , and a certain Berhtwald , possibly the nephew of Aethelred , who befriended Wilfrid for a time c . |
| 2 | There was a shadow hanging over Bourn for a time and nothing was fun any more . |
| 3 | The original entries for 995 and 996 may have been lost , and it says nothing of the hostile relations which probably existed with Normandy for a time , and only hints at the troubles in the Irish Sea mentioned above . |
| 4 | I 'm contributing to a book on art , and as Brangwyn worked with William Morris for a time , and some of his work is exhibited here , I thought I 'd take a look-see for myself . |
| 5 | After the war my father had gone to Canada for a time to try his luck at farming there . |
| 6 | In the seventeen years since his birth she had stopped being a dancer in Miami , become the straight lady to entertainer pinky Lee for a time and , during the war , done her bit for the American effort in the control tower at Willow Run , the central domestic sending centre for the military . |
| 7 | The Arabic , for example , is ambiguous in respect of whether it is the copy or the itself that Yusuf Bali — who held the kadilik of Bursa for a time in the 840s-wrote ; and , on the evidence of the signature alone , it seems entirely possible that at some point , perhaps during his kadilik , he made a copy of the which Molla Husrev subsequently attested to be a true copy . |
| 8 | He fled Britain for a time to escape debts . |
| 9 | By what I can gather they must have lived in Durham for a time , 'cos when she was saying her prayers she brought in a Mrs Melburn , a parson 's wife , who was kind to them after the father died or whatever , an' from what I made out of her jabbering the woman and the mother have written to each other . |
| 10 | Here Owen set about the great social reforms which made New Lanark for a time one of the most celebrated places in Britain ; he improved both the working and the living conditions of those on whose labour he depended , and proposed a system of universal co-operation in industry in place of the misery of exploitation . |
| 11 | and the other one , I do n't know whether you knew him , I think he lived in Earlsome for a time did n't he ? |
| 12 | It was , in his own description , the wildest house in Hollywood for a time , until he moved out to set up home with actress Sandra Knight , a slender , auburn-haired girl of striking appearance whom he met in Martin Landau 's acting class . |
| 13 | Anyway , Great-Aunt Jane shared everyone 's low opinion of John Bell for a time , even going as far as to declare that he was n't right in his head . |