Example sentences of "for a time he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a time he adopted a Stoical attitude to outface suffering , but this only brought on middle age prematurely . |
| 2 | For a time he offered his services to Louis VII of France and accompanied him on the second crusade as papal legate in charge of the Anglo-Norman contingent . |
| 3 | Fergus had not been aware of the precise moment when the Lad of the Skins drew his soul from his body with the Knife of Light , but he had known a great coldness , and a sense of desolation , and an abandonment so complete that it had overwhelmed him , and for a time he had scarcely been aware of what was happening . |
| 4 | In fact , for a time he saw in the New Order in France a possible source of ideas which he could implement in the construction of his New Order ( Nizam-i Cedit ) in Turkey . |
| 5 | For a time he believed he had a vocation to be a priest himself but he reverted to a previous plan to save sufficient money to go to university . |
| 6 | Jeremy was swiftly ejected from his first job , at the Rotherham Advertiser and for a time he made Paddington Bears for a living . |
| 7 | Instead he became a prolific journalist , contributing to at least four daily newspapers , as well as several provincial weeklies ; and for a time he assisted Thomas Hansard [ q.v. ] in publishing parliamentary reports . |
| 8 | For a time he manufactured white lead in Birmingham ( 1841–4 ) , and then adventured in copper smelting in Neath in south Wales ( 1844–8 ) . |
| 9 | For a time he slept . |
| 10 | Li Yuan stood at the rail , looking out across the darkness of the lake , his sense of ease , of inner stillness , lulling him so that for a time he seemed aware only of the dull murmur of the voices behind him and the soft lapping of the water against the wooden posts of the jetty . |
| 11 | Reza Khan had promised Ironside that he would not depose Ahmad Shah and for a time he did not . |
| 12 | For a time he puzzled over the best title . |
| 13 | For a time he gave up drinking and smoking altogether . |
| 14 | His death quite literally shattered the Prince and for a time he lost all sense of purpose . |
| 15 | For a time he lost himself in the game , his whole self gathered up into the shapes the stones made on the board , until it seemed the board was the great Tao and he the stones . |
| 16 | For a time he showed a certain curiosity about Liszt and something of the same kind about Wagner . |
| 17 | For a time he disported himself on stage like some hell-fire preacher , but since then the message of his songs has been more mixed again : even returning , sometimes , to his great old theme of disaffected love . |
| 18 | For a time he collaborated with Dylan Thomas [ q.v. ] on scripts for documentary films for the Ministry of Information , afterwards reverting to freelance writing . |