Example sentences of "and [verb] for a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I pull up and watch for a time but typically the bird does not re-appear . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She had to sell her farm and work for a time in a department store . |