Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] for a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In September 1953 Curran became the BBC 's first internally selected administrative trainee , visiting or working for a time in different departments of the BBC in and out of London and assisting in the preparation of the BBC 's first personnel manual . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I pull up and watch for a time but typically the bird does not re-appear . |
| 6 | Emma , committed to the cause of her son Harthacnut in the succession dispute of 1035 – 40 , and exiled for a time to Flanders as a result , seemingly wished to forget her previous marriage to Æthelred . |
| 7 | While moral suasion had been favoured in the War ( in preference to rationing ) as a means of restricting domestic demand , and had for a time been partially successful , as peace returned it lost much of its impact . |
| 8 | He read some of the German books , soothed by her solicitude and fancying for a time that he really was being impregnated with ideas about the Wall . |
| 9 | She had to sell her farm and work for a time in a department store . |
| 10 | 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 . |