Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] for [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When Maeve was taken , ’ said Grainne , and those nearest noted that she did not falter over the name , ‘ when Maeve was taken , the huge and fearsome Gateway to the Dark Ireland opened for a time . |
| 2 | Japan was invading China , the Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek disappeared for a time , and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned to London from Munich waving a paper to proclaim ‘ peace in our time ’ . |
| 3 | And Jessie listened for a time , but then she said , ‘ But she must be a total stranger . |
| 4 | Compassion for Antoinette Gebrec had for the time being taken her mind off her own disillusionment . |
| 5 | Before long , however , the euphoria and hope turned to terror and tyranny , and first under the Committee of Public Safety and the Triumvirate , and then led by the Corsican dictator Napoleon , France became for a time , a threat to every nation in Europe . |
| 6 | Hunt lived for a time as a tax exile in Marbella , sharing an estate with another ex model , Jane ‘ Hottie ’ Birbeck . |
| 7 | In Southampton it is more than twenty years since we learned that there was a major settlement of foreign merchants quite separate from the walled town ; and Hamwih seemed for a time a town apart from others in Britain — though evidently related to the great semi-urban sprawl which has been excavated at Duurstede near Utrecht . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Margaret Clifton taught for a time in England , and then at the British Institute School in Madrid . |