Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] time he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Matt writes of the time he became United 's manager , in 1945 : |
| 2 | No-one left the school unless the Headmaster was throwing them out and Endill could n't remember that ever happening in the time he had been there . |
| 3 | Indeed , as Amiss saw with fascination , his first act on sitting down to breakfast was to open the tabloid at page three , fold it and prop it against the sugar bowl in such a way that the topless pin-up of the day was there to be looked at every time he got bored with the Telegraph . |
| 4 | Unless Andrew was lying , she knew from his own lips that the evidence had vanished by the time he arrived at rue Roland . |
| 5 | The bed would be well warmed by the time he got into it in about an hour from now . |
| 6 | We had been told at the time he had been in trouble before . |
| 7 | Certainly not compared to the time he got caught messing around on the roof of Battersea Power Station trying to nick the lead . |
| 8 | Although people in the Cape Town ballet world thought highly of his promise , John 's talent as a choreographer was not regarded as proved by the time he left South Africa ( at only eighteen , why should it have been ? ) , and other young choreographers were at least as highly thought of . |
| 9 | The one change to what he had recounted to Mrs Wilson lay in the time he had spent in London : he told Maidstone he 'd spent six months there . |
| 10 | Bissett 's difficulty lay in the time he had been allocated for his paper on the theoretical dimensions of the device . |
| 11 | And B-tested Peter Davidson , a former police inspector , said later : ‘ I thought at the time he 'd had more to drink than me . |
| 12 | She had hoped she 'd be long gone by the time he had finished his swim , but already he was nearly back at shore , and the filmy dress was sticking awkwardly to her still damp skin . |
| 13 | BRIAN MULRONEY has turned out to be one of the most unloved prime ministers in recent Canadian history — his popularity had plummeted by the time he decided to resign . |
| 14 | He originally planned to earn enough cash selling computers to pay for the time he spent on the race track . |
| 15 | Roirbak was physically shaking by the time he 'd broken the connection with Jahsaxa . |
| 16 | While it was vital to be well turned out , the young gallant should beware of imitating those fops who spent their time building huge and elaborate turbans : men like Mirza Abu Said , a great amir under Shah Jehan , who was so fastidious in the construction of his head-wraps that the Imperial Durbar had usually finished by the time he had finished tying it all together . |
| 17 | She was screaming by the time he caught her , screaming with laughter . |
| 18 | Mondrian 's style was fully formed by the time he arrived in New York — ‘ Broadway Boogie Woogie ’ does n't have all that much to do with cruising Broadway . |
| 19 | Michael Codron had been going there as part of the Kenneth Williams set since the time he worked for the Jack Hylton organization . |
| 20 | The two assistants swore that nothing would have changed by the time he returned . |
| 21 | After studying in Vienna with Hummel and with Simon Sechter ( whose other pupils included Schubert , in the last days of his life , and Bruckner , half-way through his ) , Thalberg 's career as one of the leading virtuosi of his days was already well established by the time he moved to Paris . |
| 22 | Precisely when and in what circumstances Molla Fenari returned to the Ottoman lands is not entirely clear , though both Ibn Hajar and Taskopruzade assert that he had returned by the time he went on the pilgrimage in 822/1419 . |