Example sentences of "[prep] time he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a fork-lift truck driver with General Motors , he worked at the Budweiser brewery at night , and in between times he was a bartender. ’ lf0020 |
| 2 | In between times he made nails , chains and tools or turned out spare parts for canal machinery . |
| 3 | In between times he has worked in Grattan St. , Sligo 1969–74 , Laurence St. , Drogheda 1975–77 and Swinford 1977–84 . |
| 4 | Time after time he has had a tournament in his pocket only for a miracle shot from a rival to steal it away . |
| 5 | Time after time he had pressed the claims of a workingman candidate on a constituency " , but they had properly chosen the man who was considered to be most suitable for the constituency . |
| 6 | Time after time he defended himself from Carter , time after time the screw intervened , again and again he was n't pushed to the floor . |
| 7 | Time after time he has shown that nice guys can finish first . |
| 8 | Time after time he has shown that nice guys can finish first . |
| 9 | Time after time he was shortlisted because at the interviews the company managers liked him ( he 's quite intelligent , outgoing and friendly ) . |
| 10 | Time after time he overtook in the face of oncoming traffic then braked heavily as he forced the car into a small gap causing everyone behind him to brake amidst the clouds of exhaust smoke from his obviously tired old engine . |
| 11 | And I 'm sure a lot of times he had no idea what was going to come out , but he knew there was going to be some sort of feedback or something , so he 'd just play with it when it came . ’ |
| 12 | If he spoke to a girl a couple of times he would tend to look on her as a girlfriend . |
| 13 | The only sign he ever gave that anything was amiss in his family was the number of times he got out his thumbnail-sized pipe for the comfort of the single puff it gave him . |
| 14 | I remember wickedly making a note at one assembly of the number of times he spoke and believe it or not the total was sixty seven . |
| 15 | ‘ Counting the number of times he says ‘ Caroline this ’ , or ‘ Caroline that ’ … ’ |
| 16 | Quiss had found himself there first , and after a little while , when he realised that there was no night and day , just the one flat , monotone light always there beyond the windows , he had started to keep a tally of the number of times he slept . |
| 17 | However , they felt it would be in his best interests to send him there , because of the number of times he has run away from council care . |
| 18 | However , they felt it would be in his best interests to send him there , because of the number of times he has run away from council care . |
| 19 | And then has a glass , I mean , the number of times he , I mean I think he 's the only one who drinks milk by the glassful ! |
| 20 | No he used to , I know who , Dawn , he used to take me sometimes and a couple of times he took me up to the and he used to say to me and what would you take for starters so I always said well I always like erm prawn cocktail |
| 21 | In April 1962 he wrote ‘ Blowin' in the Wind ’ , and within a short space of time he had been adopted as the spokesman of the civil-rights movement . |
| 22 | Part of Keith 's interest in the documentary style of photography he excels in was , perhaps , further fuelled by the amount of time he has , over the years , spent in part-time social work which has given him access to various kinds of care units . |
| 23 | Old Charlie must have had a bit of a penchant for potholing judging by the amount of time he spent in every rock crevice north of Carlisle , but I prefer to suspend my scepticism and believe that the great man did indeed peel off his powdered wig and roll out a sleeping-bag in all the places that maps and local handouts would have us believe . |
| 24 | It was Li Chao who first suggested I should have a Chinese name and I was both grateful and honoured when in the course of time he gave me the three-character name of Tdong Lao Fu which meant , literally , ‘ Portrait of Happy Man Climbing Mountain ’ . |
| 25 | And they had the time worked out for every policeman the length of time he was allowed to travel from court to home and back again and you added that time to the time you were engaged in court and it was worked out to the minute — worked out officially how long it took the tram . |
| 26 | In course of time he finds that he is the pet antipathy of his superior officers , that he is made a butt for the amusement of other men on parade , and that if there is any unpleasant work or unpopular bear or point going vacant it falls to his lot to fill it . |
| 27 | In the course of time he was sent to Cornwall to educate the Ack-Ack regiments ( and to examine the Cornish churches ) but the sudden onset of a mysterious and debilitating illness ( which later proved to be high blood-pressure ) led to his being discharged as being unfit for service . |
| 28 | In the nick of time he saw the yellow triangular patch on the shoulder . |
| 29 | Had he not been so short of time he might well have found 25 … |
| 30 | The officer who saw the vehicle being kept should be in a position to state the length of time he observed the vehicle being kept on a public road , but see ( B ) 2 of this offence regarding the length of time kept being immaterial . |