Examples of 'he was for a time' in a sentence

Meaning of "he was for a time"

he was for a time: This phrase implies that someone held a particular role or position temporarily or temporarily experienced a certain situation.~

How to use "he was for a time" in a sentence

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he was for a time
He was for a time chaplain with his father.
During that period he was for a time tutor to Prince Chichibu.
He was for a time secretary of its doctrine commission.
He had to be rushed to a hospital, where he was for a time clinically dead.
He was for a time in another place an independent man.
The well-respected Dickinson refused to greet Adams and he was for a time largely ostracized.
He was for a time involved in research theatre.
After the Second World War he was for a time a member of Germany 's CDU party.
He was for a time my confessor.
He went first to Trieste, and then to Constantinople, where he was for a time a ship-broker.
Then he was for a time dead.
Among other benefices which he held, he was for a time chaplain to St. Bartholomew 's Hospital.
He was for a time my mentor.
After that he was for a time in Jerusalem.
He was for a time at the grammar school at Drogheda.

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During the war he was for a time associated with the New Apocalyptics group.
He was for a time the preeminent portrait painter in Berlin.
After retirement he was for a time co-owner of race horses.
He was for a time an anarchist but later became a Communist.
Among philosophers, he was for a time best known for his interpretation of Descartes 's rationalism.
He was for a time head of economic policy for the OECD.
In addition, he was for a time musical director of the vocal sextet Les Double Six.
He was for a time head of the Republican Guard.
He was for a time Kings Inspector of insurance companies.
He was for a time Justice of the Peace.
He was for a time editor of the Scottish Guardian newspaper.
He was for a time involved with the Salvation Army.
He was for a time the leader of the New York party.
He was for a time the oldest active jazz musician in New Orleans.
He was for a time one of the professors there under Cardinal Kolos Vaszary.
He was for a time chairman of Trondheim Polytechnic Association.
He was for a time the President of the Philadelphia Society.
He was for a time conductor of the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra.
He was for a time working at the Salisbury and Bindura Mine.
He was for a time the confessor to King Richard Lionheart of England.
He was for a time assistant to the New York photographer Weegee.
He was for a time also in the service of Cardinal Cinzio Passeri Aldobrandini.
He was for a time a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain CPGB.
He was for a time the president of the National Theatre Organ Society.
He was for a time head of the Gestapo Department for Jewish Affairs in Poland.
He was for a time the archbishop of Sichuan, although he never went there.
He was for a time lecturer on geology at the school of military engineering, Chatham.
He was for a time in a partnership with Octavius Waterhouse, as wholesale tea and coffee dealers.
He was for a time parish schoolmaster of Wick, Caithness.
He was for a time a member of the Young Presidents ' Organization.
He was for a time in Milan and then journeyed to Spain, via France.
He was for a time Cortázar 's literary agent in the United States.
He was for a time the lover of Lucy Walter, later the mistress of Charles II.
He was for a time vice-president of the Sunday Christian Observance Council.
He was for a time the physician to the Pope Julius III, in Rome.

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