Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] for a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Progress in the 19th century lay in improving refining techniques , in finding new uses ( especially in catalysis and electricity ) and discovering new sources , principally in the Urals — after which for a time the Russians adopted platinum coinage . |
| 2 | He received honours from Italy , Serbia , Montenegro , and the republic of San Marino , of which for a time he was consul in London . |
| 3 | Formula feeds without lactose are available , and your doctor may be able to prescribe one for you for a time , if your baby has had gastroenteritis and continues to have colic or diarrhoea afterwards . |
| 4 | I wo n't be in touch with you for a time and I do n't want you starting a panic . ’ |
| 5 | Artegall remains with her for a time and restores order : |
| 6 | Later , Baxter 's father and step-mother also came to live with him for a time . |
| 7 | Later , Baxter 's father and step-mother also came to live with him for a time . |
| 8 | John Aubrey [ q.v. ] may have lodged with him for a time . |
| 9 | But if cheating is necessary , you can commonly get away with it for a time . |
| 10 | There is a real danger in only doing the classical things — you 're OK with it for a time , but then you 're left high and dry when fashion moves on . ’ |
| 11 | Not the clankings and gratings of the Zoo which lay off in the distance to his right , now obscured by the trees over which he had flown in the night , but the call of a thousand birds whose busyness and life shook his fears off him for a time and replaced them with a sense of wonder . |
| 12 | As Sir Alan Richmond recalls it : ‘ we were very hot on sandwich courses , almost dogmatic about it for a time ’ . |