Example sentences of "have [vb pp] for a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon after he came to power he personally led an expedition against the Shanqalla negroes on the Sudan border , and my father affirmed that the slaughter there must have satisfied for a time even his craving for blood . |
| 2 | There have been occasional remarks that some players may have dallied for a time with what are known as recreational drugs . |
| 3 | He lived at Charing Cross in 1585 , in 1589–90 in Writtington , Essex , by 1596 he writes from ‘ my house in Hamsell Park , Sussex ’ , while early in the 1600s he may have lived for a time in Isleworth , Middlesex . |
| 4 | After this he seems to have retired for a time to his Scottish estates . |
| 5 | He had lived for a time in England , and we discussed whether to conduct the session in English or German . |