Example sentences of "and [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | This kingdom spread itself over Scotland north of the Forth and Clyde and for a time seems to have included Orkney . |
| 32 | His lace assumes a natural look he 's able to sit up and breathe more normally and for a time seems well My dear Dr Dunstaple , perhaps you could explain to us why , if the symptoms are caused , as you seem to believe , by damage to the lungs or by a poison circulating in the blood and depressing the action of the heart … why it 's possible that these symptoms should thus be suspended by an injection of warm water holding a little salt in solution ? " |
| 33 | The Aridians , locked in their own war for survival against savage Mire Beasts , are in no position to oppose the Daleks and for a time the TARDIS crew are their prisoners . |
| 34 | Exploitation of the alluvial deposits of the Altai still further east allowed Russia to displace Brazil and for a time to be the world 's leading producer of gold . |
| 35 | Jeremy was swiftly ejected from his first job , at the Rotherham Advertiser and for a time he made Paddington Bears for a living . |
| 36 | Ahmed Ahmedi was at the airport and for a time no one knew what to do with me . |
| 37 | We left on a windless morning , and for a time the town seemed impossible to shake off . |
| 38 | Old Aaron Kleiber built up a little tailoring business , and for a time Ruth had worked for him as a seamstress , together with Sarah Vogel , another immigrant , and Rosie O'Dell , Connor and Sean 's half-sister . |
| 39 | It happened that this was also the form advocated by Vuk Karadžić in Serbia , and for a time Ljudevit Gaj ( 1809–72 ) , the leader of the Illyrian Movement in Croatia , warmed to the idea that Serbs and Croats shared a common language and culture . |
| 40 | They looked at her and for a time no one said anything . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | Boswell says , ‘ The scene was as sequestered and agreeably wild as could be desired , and for a time engrossed all our attention . ’ |
| 43 | But then the alien disease , like a parasite , takes hold again and for a time destroys everything in its path : all hope , all trust , all honesty , all love , all relationships . |
| 44 | Reza Khan had promised Ironside that he would not depose Ahmad Shah and for a time he did not . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | He received his BD by 1611 , his DD by 1613 , was ordained priest ( 1610 ) , and for a time was tutor to Lord Wharton 's son . |
| 47 | The boys had local reactions and quickly recovered but his wife 's arm became very inflamed and for a time her condition gave cause for concern . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | She travelled round the world , paid two visits to the United States , and for a time taught English in Japan . |
| 50 | He went into his room and put on a record while he decided what to do and for a time became lost in the music . |
| 51 | You can always look back and say " What if " , but we must remember that we got ourselves out of a couple of scrapes on last two days and for a time we looked absolutely terrible , but we turned it around and could have won . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | Canterbury was the senior court and for a time during the Commonwealth period — between 1655 and 1660 — all wills were proved there . |
| 54 | Their emergence in the mid 14605 had alienated Clarence and Warwick , and for a time , in 1469–70 , hostility to the family had become a political issue . |
| 55 | He hated the noise of Endsleigh Court and for a time shared the flat of a friend — mistaking his haemorrhoid cream for toothpaste . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | But he could be ready for anything ; for the churches which had abandoned him ; for the churches like the Philippian one which had continued to care ; for hunger ; for plenty ; for the times when he had no obvious human support , and for the times when his fellow believers came and gave him encouragement . |
| 58 | So that 's why IBM Corp was ready to get rid of MAPICS , one of its very few ostensibly successful software applications : Marcam Corp signalled in a conference call on Thursday night that analysts for now should not expect the product line from IBM to add to Marcam 's earnings in fiscal 1994 ; it indicated that both this year and for the time being next year their guidance is no positive impact on earnings from the MAPICS acquisition , ’ Hambrecht & Quist analyst Robert Herwick says . |
| 59 | This , however , lay still in the future , and for the time being the seventeen industrialised towns and villages ( out of thirty-two ) in Babergh hundred contained almost three-quarters of its population and 87 per cent of its wealth . |
| 60 | And that , for most people and for the time being , said everything . |