Example sentences of "for a time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arrival of the Italian soldiers was held up for a time while the Italian government bargained for an Italian to command the UN forces ( the commander is , as it happens , a Brazilian ) . |
| 2 | The son of a working-class family , Doisneau developed an early interest in art and was apprenticed as an engraver for a time before he ‘ escaped ’ to work for the sculptor and photographer , Andre Vigneau . |
| 3 | These feelings — homesickness for a place you could n't wait to leave ( Manchester ) , nostalgia for a time that was never any good in the first place ( adolescence ) — were why the music of the Smiths refracted the quandaries of the eighties like no other . |
| 4 | Those radicals ( among whom Gaitskell was , oddly , not numbered ) who wanted to abolish the public schools , or amalgamate them somehow into the maintained system , persuaded themselves for a time that if this were done , and if everyone had a chance to take the 11 + and compete for a place at a grammar school , then justice would have been done and educational standards would be secure . |
| 5 | Early versions of the theory were inconsistent with the observation that some matter is stable for a time that exceeds about 10 -8 seconds . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The improvement in medical knowledge and other changes of recent times made marriage a more stable institution for a time than it was in the Middle Ages . |
| 8 | Frustrations will cloud your horizons for a time but you will shake them off and emerge well pleased with your efforts . |
| 9 | The monster might breathe fire for a time but , sooner or later , the general public would forget about the lion 's head and remember only the goat 's body and serpent 's tail . |
| 10 | Depressed and anxious patients who sought refuge from their troubles by taking an overdose remained unconscious for a time but did not die of respiratory failure or asphyxiation , as happened only too readily after an overdose of barbiturate . |
| 11 | James would probably have been content to live quietly for a time but both Mary and Louis were insistent on immediate action and his chief remaining ally in the British Isles , Richard Talbot , Earl of Tyrconnel , Lord Deputy and Commander-in-Chief in Ireland , wrote urging him not to settle into comfortable inactivity in France when Ireland offered a kingdom of his own ‘ plentiful in all things for human life ’ . |
| 12 | The use of Masai in broadcasts should be introduced for a time but should not , he said , become ‘ a permanent privilege ’ . |
| 13 | I pull up and watch for a time but typically the bird does not re-appear . |
| 14 | To them I 'll say you 'll find things are strange for a time but , with the help of your colleagues , you 'll soon find your feet but , for yourselves , avoid falling into the bad habits of others . |
| 15 | We had potatoes in there for a time but we had to keep hoeing all the weeds out . |
| 16 | Proper planning was held up for a time until the route of the M4 was decided , as an early outline brought it through Harpsden and over Peppard . |
| 17 | In the seventeen years since his birth she had stopped being a dancer in Miami , become the straight lady to entertainer pinky Lee for a time and , during the war , done her bit for the American effort in the control tower at Willow Run , the central domestic sending centre for the military . |
| 18 | It played on his mind for a time and eventually he had to work out a kind of therapy to get her out of his brain . |
| 19 | He then provided : ‘ I wish whatever legacies I have left to be paid by you , my dear son , and if any debt shall emerge , if I had borrowed anything for a time and shall owe it , I wish it to be paid by you , so that what I have left your sister may pass to her undiminished . ’ |
| 20 | There was a shadow hanging over Bourn for a time and nothing was fun any more . |
| 21 | The smaller bits we 'd look at for a time and then he 'd throw them on the fire . |
| 22 | The marines chatted with the vigilantees for a time and exchanged cigarettes with them . |
| 23 | But it would be only for a time and she had been thinking of asking the queen-dowager for permission to leave sanctuary and visit her mother . |
| 24 | The forces of Chaos are driven back for a time and a fragile peace descends on Ulthuan . |
| 25 | He is best known today for his early friendships with the Impressionist elite of Renoir , Fantin-Latour , Manet , Cézanne and Monet ( with whom he shared a studio for a time and discussed the possibility of organising an exhibition of their friends ' works by the official salon ) . |
| 26 | Dorothy , left in the bigger house , alone for a time and then , later , with Alice and Jasper , seemed to have fewer friends . |
| 27 | Not the clankings and gratings of the Zoo which lay off in the distance to his right , now obscured by the trees over which he had flown in the night , but the call of a thousand birds whose busyness and life shook his fears off him for a time and replaced them with a sense of wonder . |
| 28 | Sometimes the polyphony is treated in a free manner , voices imitating each other loosely for a time and then taking a free course until imitations begin again . |
| 29 | I wo n't be in touch with you for a time and I do n't want you starting a panic . ’ |
| 30 | Ken took Apricot with him on gigs for a time and quite enjoyed it , but found getting her to school and organizing her clothes and meals onerous . |