Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | At their last meeting a line had been reached , and despite the urgings of his senses at the time , he was not sure that they wanted to cross it . |
| 2 | He visited the home of Simon Peter , was supported by well-to-do people and never encouraged Zacchaeus to dispose of the whole of his wealth at the time when he returned money to those he had cheated . |
| 3 | Mrs Kennerley sent a copy of the letter to his campaign team as proof of his patriotism at the time . |
| 4 | ‘ Michel said I reminded him of his audience at the time when he made speeches . |
| 5 | During our work with this widow , whose husband had died very unexpectedly , it turned out that since the time of his death until the time she contacted us , she had kept herself in a state of perpetual motion between her house and that of her son who lived some fifty miles away . |
| 6 | In the following sentence the narrator comments on what happened a week later than the time of the lady 's speech , from the point of view of his context at the time of writing his contribution to the novel , In a week afterwards … |
| 7 | Leaving aside the issue of his sincerity at the time , his statement has lived on to become a condemnation of his fellow Republican Ronald Reagan , who is guilty of the most alarming lapse of self-restraint in the history of American environmental management . |
| 8 | For the present we may note that every person is considered to start life with a ‘ domicile or origin ’ , which will be , as a rule , the domicile of his father at the time of his birth ; and that this domicile of origin continues until it is shown that some other domicile has been acquired , and is restored whenever an acquired domicile is lost without the acquisition of another . |
| 9 | Pears himself died in 1986 , leaving a new generation of British tenors to emerge from beneath his shadow at a time when Britten 's own work is undergoing vital reassessment and revival . |
| 10 | But his alibi stood up , He was with his girl-friend at the time of the crime . |
| 11 | There was a young boy there with his cows at the time , and he told Kalchu that he had watched the bull and it had walked slowly right round the circumference of the Kālādika , before lying down where Kalchu had found it . |
| 12 | He even fell into arrears with his mortgage at a time when he was earning £400,000 a year as chairman of Lonrho , and at one stage had a 300-acre farm and farmhouse , next to his magnificent 14th-century manor house in Somerset , repossessed . |
| 13 | Landlord Bill Long , who has since moved to another pub , gave evidence in support of the defendant , verifying that he had been within his sight for the time in question , except for a brief spell when he was collecting glasses . |
| 14 | Finniston pauses for an ironical chuckle as he recollects the weight of responsibility placed upon his shoulders at the time . |
| 15 | But many more were needed , and in early January Coleridge set off to publicize the new venture on a tour of the Midlands , recording an eventful journey with comic gusto both in his letters at the time and almost twenty years later in the Biographia Literaria . |
| 16 | It was as though an extraordinary story — a great mythology , with half-forgotten legends , languages and lore — had been unfolding in his head from the time he began to think ; and his appreciation of the Old Literature was at the deepest level imaginative and creative . |
| 17 | ( 4 ) ( a ) Where a member of a recognised body dies the recognised body shall ensure that any shares registered in his name at the time of his death are within twelve months of his death registered in the name of a solicitor or a recognised body or ( where permitted by paragraph ( 2 ) ( a ) ( i ) of this Rule ) a registered foreign lawyer or ( where the recognised body is a company limited by shares ) are acquired by the recognised body itself . |
| 18 | ( 4 ) ( a ) Where a member of a recognised body dies the recognised body shall ensure that any shares registered in his name at the time of his death are within twelve months of his death registered in the name of a solicitor or a recognised body or ( where permitted by paragraph ( 2 ) ( a ) ( i ) of this Rule ) a registered foreign lawyer or ( where the recognised body is a company limited by shares ) are acquired by the recognised body itself . |
| 19 | Nothing could shake the steadiness of such men as Hugh Waterton or John Norbury , who had been in his service from the time when he had been merely Henry of Bolingbroke , earl of Derby , and even that title borrowed by courtesy from his father . |
| 20 | Among the few papers in his possession at the time of his death were some manuscript notes in which he was evidently attempting to develop his earlier skit , ‘ The Hopkin Syndicate ’ . |
| 21 | Now , he does n't say anything about penis envy in , in putting that forward and I do n't know whether penis envy was in his mind at the time he wrote those words and even if I asked him today , he probably would n't admit it . |
| 22 | There was a curious connection now in his mind between the time that Sergeant Barry Lawrence had knocked him silly in the pub and this new blurring of his mind . |
| 23 | Prominent in his thinking at the time was Wilhelm Reich , the advocate of the practice of free love , which he believed would bring all power systems crashing to the ground . |
| 24 | Mr Palmer told the court that Mr Browning admitted being in his car at the time of the killing . |
| 25 | Does this disposition discharge the debtor only from his liabilities at the time the will was made or also from interest accruing subsequently ? |
| 26 | While some of the fight had clearly faded from his team-mates by the time they reached the Oval , battling Smith was more single-minded than ever . |
| 27 | He had , according to Bowdler Sharpe , amassed a fortune of £17,000 from his publications by the time he left for Australia . |
| 28 | Himself an illegitimate son of Mary 's father , James V , and a collaborator in the murder of Darnley , Moray held on to his captive for a time in that Loch Leven castle where the queen had also been imprisoned . |
| 29 | According to his solicitor at the time Nicholas was ‘ bitterly disappointed with the verdict because he is not a violent man . ’ |
| 30 | I suppose it was inevitable that in 1918 he should capitalise on his expertise at a time when the post-war craze for the new-fangled wireless sets was at its height . |