Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a time the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His chief undertaking , Fowey Consols , became for a time the second largest producer in Cornwall . |
| 2 | With his entrepreneurial skills , and his international connections , he seemed for a time the man most likely to lead the British film industry away from its artisanal base , but he turned out to be no more responsive than anyone else to developments that were going to make things very difficult for the pioneers . |
| 3 | While studying theology at Oxford he joined for a time the household of Robert Grosseteste [ q.v. ] , bishop of Lincoln , probably through the good offices of Adam Marsh , who described him as ‘ active , discreet , full of goodwill and devoted to the cure of souls ’ ( Mon . |
| 4 | When interpreting these tables it should be remembered that no matter how many animals were stolen at a time the case was recorded as one theft . |
| 5 | But all instances share one characteristic : the author 's words become for a time the transmitters of other voices , voices that come from inside someone else 's head . |