Example sentences of "[verb] for a time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert Bevan , one of their number , had worked at Pont-Aven and had known Paul Gauguin , and Sickert , whose sympathy with France went deep , owned a house in Neuville , on the outskirts of Dieppe , which he lent for a time to the Gilmans . |
| 2 | These courses could not be done in a shorter time so they were normally arranged for a time of year when there was less pressure of work on those participating . |
| 3 | It was invented by the Joseph-Robinson corporation , a particularly unscrupulous food company that operated for a time amongst the outer colonies of the planet Earth . ’ |
| 4 | The convoy was halted for a time by protesters at Dalreoch , on the Dumbarton-Helensburgh road , again at Helensburgh and on the third occasion at the protest camp at the gates to the base . |
| 5 | Hunt lived for a time as a tax exile in Marbella , sharing an estate with another ex model , Jane ‘ Hottie ’ Birbeck . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A contemporary of Gundulić was Junije Palmotić ( 1606–57 ) , a Ragusan noble who lived for a time in Bosnia , and who drew upon the Slav folk tales as well as on contemporary Italian and ancient classical traditions for the abundant outpouring of songs , satires , verse epics and dramas which he composed . |
| 8 | ‘ We lived for a time in Washington DC , ’ she said slowly . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He mused for a time over alternative means of strengthening control , even on the possibility of a Minister replacing Citrine as chairman , but in the end he accepted the logic of the independent Morrisonian public corporation on which Labour 's nationalisation had ostensibly been based . |
| 11 | The couple returned to the Howard estate at Cardington in Bedfordshire at first but moved for a time to Lymington on the Hampshire coast later , for the sake of her health . |
| 12 | Continue the walk as normal , pausing for a time at the spot and call the dog back to you , rather than trying to pursue it . |
| 13 | They were together — happily and companionably together , separated for a time from the outside world and its evil influences . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | During my first year as a prisoner some of us were moved for a time from Silesia to a camp in the Polish corridor . |
| 16 | I studied for a time in Paris , Padua and Salerno . ’ |
| 17 | Presumably it saw service for iron working at some time , although in later life it was used for corn grinding , saw milling , as well as being operated for a time as a maltings . |
| 18 | The events associated with the prisoners ' rights movement that flourished for a time in the late 1960s and early 1970s in parts of the United States , Scandinavia and Britain had by the early 1980s largely disappeared without trace . |
| 19 | ‘ There was this Andrea , lived somewhere down Oakley Street , danced for a time with the Ballet Rambert . |
| 20 | She danced for a time in Pavlova 's company , and returned home in 1928 with the ambition of developing ballet in her native land . |
| 21 | This means it can tolerate an actual break in supply because it will run for a time on the batteries . |
| 22 | The social person first moves out of his original position ( role ) ( " the rite of separation " ) ; he then exists for a time in a liminal condition , a threshold of time and space which is outside the ordinary world of secular affairs and is treated as in some way " sacred " ( Van Gennep 's " rite de marge " ) ; finally he moves back into secular society in his new position ( role ) ( " the rite of aggregation " ) . |
| 23 | One of the most farcical rivalries was that which existed for a time between two groups of prisoners who earlier had been in different Oflags . |
| 24 | Margaret Clifton taught for a time in England , and then at the British Institute School in Madrid . |
| 25 | He returned to Germany for good in 1857 , moving for a time to Berlin to be near Prince and Princess Frederick William of Prussia ( ‘ Fritz ’ and ‘ Vicky ’ ) . |
| 26 | After this he seems to have retired for a time to his Scottish estates . |
| 27 | Harald was probably also recognised for a time as ruler of part of Norway . |
| 28 | He worked for a time with Stopover House and the Newham Alternative Project , both designed to provide temporary help for the poor and homeless of the East End . |
| 29 | He was a physician who , after qualifying in medicine in 1912 , worked for a time at University College Hospital , London , where he became interested in bacteriology and the developing discipline of immunology . |
| 30 | Mr Bolona is equally welcome in financial circles in North America , where he worked for a time as a consultant on Latin American debt . |