Example sentences of "[noun sg] and for a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before they lost Richard Biddle with a hamstring injury , the Quakers looked like they could actually match the ex-Premier League side and for a time they promised to take the lead . |
| 2 | At this stage most people would have given up the struggle and for a time settled for Ted , who by now had enlisted new blood into his team , including the trusty old campaigner , John Peyton , and Peter Walker , who was re-engaged as Ted 's campaign manager . |
| 3 | Nicholson saw them around Sunset Strip and for a time they were joined by Elvis Presley , who had seen Rebel Without a Cause forty-four times and could speak Dean 's lines word perfect . |
| 4 | His death quite literally shattered the Prince and for a time he lost all sense of purpose . |
| 5 | Unable to get his life and work in gear , Chris Penn changed his name and for a time worked on a building site before earning good money being beaten black and blue as a prize fighter . |
| 6 | Canterbury was the senior court and for a time during the Commonwealth period — between 1655 and 1660 — all wills were proved there . |
| 7 | He hated the noise of Endsleigh Court and for a time shared the flat of a friend — mistaking his haemorrhoid cream for toothpaste . |
| 8 | Jeremy was swiftly ejected from his first job , at the Rotherham Advertiser and for a time he made Paddington Bears for a living . |
| 9 | Ahmed Ahmedi was at the airport and for a time no one knew what to do with me . |
| 10 | Writer Brian Clark gave me the persona of a middle-class , middle-aged professional with a wife problem and for a time it became my trademark . |
| 11 | Before his association with William Smith and other Lollards of Leicester he had acted as a preacher and for a time as a hermit , with varied reception but some support from the Augustinian canons at Leicester Abbey . |