Example sentences of "live [adv] for a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Barnes , a distant Stanhope cousin , lived here for a time , but for most of its life it has been a farmhouse , which it remains . |
| 2 | Franz Kafka lived here for a time . |
| 3 | In time to come , will someone else walk these halls and remember the Wolfqueen who lived here for a time , but who brought the Cruithin out of hiding , and drove Medoc from the Bright Palace ? |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | Noguchi tried in vain to construct an earthwork sculpture at a Japanese-American internment camp where he lived voluntarily for a time during World War II . |