Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] [prep] his time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her father had worked long hours for the convent in his time , he had paid many times over in advance for his child to be housed and educated , had he but known it . |
| 2 | He had felt he should ask Nahum to stay at Fern Cottage with him , but was relieved when Christian insisted that the gipsy leader 's son stay at Handley Farm for the remainder of his time in Swinbrook . |
| 3 | My grandfather had always taken a keen interest in my work , and I had an equal admiration of the stories of his time spent in Burma during the Second World War . |
| 4 | He tries to imagine the process by demystifying himself , in other words , by ridding himself of the fantastic in the notion of labour , and by trying to see what it would be like without the strange construction of the system of his time . |
| 5 | From the distance of a century , some of Van Gogh 's enthusiastic appraisals of the art of his time look curious ; but then , this artist acting as a critic was especially vulnerable to admiring art with a moral purpose , or work from which he was able to draw inspiration . |
| 6 | The Papal flag was flying and Mass was celebrated in thanksgiving for the work of the Bishop during his time in the diocese . |
| 7 | On the other hand , if Marx , like most of the anthropologists of his time , saw the study of human society as the continuation of biological evolution , he did not , as they did , believe that human historical processes were the same as the processes of natural selection . |
| 8 | By middle age Bartram has so educated himself in the classics , sciences , medicines and above all , botany , that he was regarded as one of the intellectuals of his time . |
| 9 | ( Spinoza was opposed to the more life denying aspects of the Calvinism of his time . ) |
| 10 | Towards the end of his time with us , Peter began to develop a midfield role in the craftier confines of Division Two , but it is for his goalscoring exploits that Palace fans chiefly remember him . |
| 11 | What all the " finishing " processes had in common , apart from a degree of exertion greater than was needed for hand-setting but not necessarily greater than could be expected from a normal young woman , was that these were tasks an apprentice learned only towards the end of his time . |
| 12 | Towards the end of his time at the College , Auerbach , like others , witnessed a deterioration in Minton 's person . |
| 13 | Indeed , in another passage in the Ali differentiates the haric elli ( and 40-akce ) and dahil grades of medreses on the basis not of geographical location but of their builders — the 40-akce and medreses being the foundations of the families of pre-Ottoman rulers and [ Ottoman ] vezirs and emirs , the medreses the foundations of the families of Ottoman sultans — method of classification which accords rather better with the actualities of his time ( late sixteenth century ) but which provides no apparent explanation for the terms themselves . |
| 14 | Occasionally the author , with the privilege of his time , directs a disquisition straight to the reader , but such interpolations , and even the wild doodling with which , now and then , he seemed to be whipping up his flagging invention in order to fill a prescribed number of pages , contribute to a unique , first-hand view of the navy in Nelson 's day , delivered through narratives whose combination of tight , lateral movement and meandering subincidents has never been surpassed . |
| 15 | Mr Abu Sharif called former President Jimmy Carter , who has contacts with the PLO from his time as a Third World mediator . |
| 16 | Arnold 's fearful preoccupation with the violence of his time drew on a number of sources , for it was not only the ‘ rough ’ of the East End slums who was ‘ asserting his personal liberty a little , going where he likes , assembling where he likes , bawling as he likes , hustling as he likes ’ . |
| 17 | He studied in his own land " under the ulema of his time " and is said to have studied under Seyyid Serif ( d. 816/1413–14 ) . |
| 18 | There were clear signals , then , from the beginning of his time in power , that Deng would not tolerate serious dissent . |
| 19 | A pompous little duckarsed bandmaster who stood against everything creative in the art of his time . |
| 20 | And he began to quote , dramatically gesturing in the manner of his time . |
| 21 | And so Russell , looking round the world , inspired by that feeling and conscious of the way in which old human artefacts can hem in the expansion of human power of love and knowledge , he seeks to identify what in the world of his time are the main obstacles . |
| 22 | Locke , John ( 1632–1704 ) An English philosopher who in the context of his time ( and of his own life which involved a period of exile ) was a clear defender of toleration and free enquiry . |
| 23 | The exhibition catalogue contains two essays by Dr Barnett on Kandinsky 's works in private collections and on the works on paper together with an examination of the theoretical basis of the artist 's work by Armin Zweite entitled ‘ Free the line for the inner sound : Kandinsky 's renewal of art in the context of his time ’ . |
| 24 | The Director of Studies expressed strong misgivings over the amount of his time ( he claimed that it has ‘ cost ’ him 32 periods ) which the review of this small department had taken . |
| 25 | As with ‘ power corrupting ’ , Tolkien was during the 1930s and 1940s reacting quite evidently to the issues of his time . |
| 26 | Kevin Kenny has come to the end of his time and wishes to be relinquished from the ‘ Home & Away ’ project . |
| 27 | In relation to the politics of his time , Simmel 's more detailed arguments often appear confusing . |
| 28 | He had both a yellow and a red stain across his chest and he was turning around with his arms out appealing for a referee , then he turned and trudged back to the farmhouse for his time penalty . |
| 29 | If he acted in this way , it was not in order to conform to the customs of his time , for his attitude towards women was quite different from that of his milieu , and he deliberately and courageously broke with it . ’ |
| 30 | Between 1768 and 1779 , his own voyages of discovery filled in vast empty areas on the maps of his time . |