Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] time that he " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was at Lovell 's dinner-table that Coleridge eventually found Southey , and there for the first time that he met Lovell 's wife Mary and her eldest sister Sarah Fricker . |
| 2 | It seems to have been about then that he mentioned for the first time that he thought he was being poisoned with acqua toffana ( a notorious Italian poison ) . |
| 3 | And now , as he entered Lady Ursula Berowne 's sitting room , Dalgliesh felt for the first time that he was in a private house , that this was a room which the owner had made peculiarly her own . |
| 4 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 5 | On finishing it , had she realized for the first time that he meant to kill her ? |
| 6 | She noticed for the first time that he was wearing a pair of white , glowing incongruously in the twilight . |
| 7 | Johnny , as though realizing for the first time that he was still wearing his pyjama trousers , began to worry at the knot in the cord at his waist , the trembling of his hands causing him to fumble ineffectively . |
| 8 | He also publicly acknowledged for the first time that he was a recovering " drug addict " who had behaved in a " degrading and outrageous " way . |
| 9 | In doing so , however , he admitted for the first time that he had made " every effort " to obtain the release of the hostages . |
| 10 | On March 18 Najibullah formally announced for the first time that he was prepared to resign to further the progress of a UN peace plan , the initial aim of which was to establish an interim , all-party government [ see p. 38811 ] . |
| 11 | She noticed for the first time that he had a slight limp . |
| 12 | Cnut had a church built at the site of the battle , and it was consecrated in 1020 , at about the same time that he allowed the replacement of clerics by monks in St Edmund 's church at Bury . |
| 13 | But perhaps because she was thus secretly rejecting him and yet knew at the same time that he was in love with her , a sense of justice prompted her to help him in amorous efforts , to support him , to rid him of childish embarrassment . |
| 14 | The candidate must also give his consent to nomination and at the same time that he gives his consent in writing he must state his qualifications to be a candidate . |
| 15 | Gandalf remarks at the same time that he sent Gwaihir the eagle to watch the River ; presumably he was the eagle Aragorn saw , but thought nothing of , as he stared out from Amon Hen on the first page of The Two Towers . |
| 16 | It says a child can not be misbehaving at the same time that he is behaving well . |
| 17 | He was proud that the invisible spirit animating the slight frame had dared to conceive the intended deed as his duty ; but he was afraid at the same time that he would lack the courage to endure the pain and carry it through . |
| 18 | From this awareness of individuation or , to use the Scotist term , haecceitas , came Hopkins 's overriding concern with ‘ inscape ’ in every aspect of the created world : the obsession with the ‘ selfhood ’ of every object or being , at the same time that he perceived behind it the generically divine . |