Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Rostov 's experience of the Empire had not prepared him to find at the same time a complete absence of the poor and underprivileged . |
| 2 | I think the death of David 's father was probably what took him a while to make the decision about leaving Ken , because to lose his father , who he really adored , who had always been a pillar of strength to him , changed his life , and I think David carried a bitterness about him dying for a long time . |
| 3 | That left him deciding for a long time which club to use for his third shot . |
| 4 | It is hard to imagine him coming at a better time as we plan to make our first Diocesan Assembly the centrepiece of his visit , on Saturday 10th June . |
| 5 | These last few months of building a new identity had enabled him to relax for the first time in years . |
| 6 | The odds are shortening all the time against him emerging as a big time trainer in his own right . |
| 7 | ‘ Not last night ; I heard him come in a long time after I went to bed . |
| 8 | Yohan , an old man , was moved to tears as he read a tract , as he realised for the first time how much God loved him . |
| 9 | ‘ So you will not consider me , after all our friendship ? ’ he asked , and Emily moved restlessly ; he realised for the first time that all her movements were studied . |
| 10 | Later still he became for a short time a professor at Cambridge . |
| 11 | ‘ It is coming ? ’ he asked for the fifth time since they had broken away from the Baglietto . |
| 12 | ‘ What exactly did he take ? ’ he asked for the fourth time . |
| 13 | Though he admitted for the first time he was the author of his own downfall , he spent much of his speech attacking the press . |
| 14 | In doing so , however , he admitted for the first time that he had made " every effort " to obtain the release of the hostages . |
| 15 | ‘ ( 1 ) … where an individual is adjudged bankrupt and he has at a relevant time … entered into a transaction with any person at an undervalue , the trustee of the bankrupt 's estate may apply to the court for an order under this section . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , former Tottenham player Gary Lineker 's Japanese adventure got underway when he trained for the first time with his Grampus Eight teammates at Nagoya yesterday . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | He says for the first time in his life , he 's known what life must have been like for the old masters . |
| 19 | It seems , then , that not only may an entrepreneur-producer be a monopolist because he happens at the same time to be a monopolist resource owner , he may be a monopolist because he has made himself a monopolist resource owner in the course of his entrepreneurial activities . |
| 20 | Then , during his three years in exile he came for the first time into close contact with the main exponents of the Gregorian ideal , and we must ask how far and in what circumstances he adopted the phraseology of the Gregorian reformers ; then , whether he adopted the theoretical structure which their favourite phrase libertas ecclesiae expressed , or adopted the phrase for use only in exceptional circumstances and for special reasons . |
| 21 | There were things he consciously noticed about people which he brought to mind long after he had ceased to watch them , but now he noted for the first time that she had very small feet — they could have belonged to the oriental he had imagined her to be through the sun haze . |
| 22 | It was in that terrible moment of loss that he noticed for the first time the eagle in the cage on the other side of his from where Minch 's cage was . |
| 23 | As he closed the door , he noticed for the first time that there was a star on it . |
| 24 | As he hung about the Red Anchor he noticed for the first time that its character was changing . |
| 25 | This last point is certainly not irrelevant , since the commemorative scroll sent to me from the Palace names Leslie as of the Parachute Regiment ; and under this unit did he appear for the last time in the Army List . |
| 26 | Perhaps the most significant intellectual advance of the mid-20th century was indeed made by Karl Popper , not because he provided any kind of method for scientists to pursue ( as he decidedly did not ) but because he showed for the first time in formal philosophy , that science is inescapably a human activity , and that if its underlying human-ness is ever shelved it is only temporarily , and for convenience , to ameliorate human frailty . |
| 27 | In portraiture he obtained at the same time a good likeness , much appreciated by the sitters and their families , and , in these works and in his more fanciful subjects , he engendered feelings of respect and admiration . |
| 28 | Soapy moved on , but he walked for a long time before he tried again . |
| 29 | It was unfortunate that he returned for a short time but this was necessary in order for him to complete training prior to deploying on an operational tour . ’ |
| 30 | He prayed for the first time in years to the Holy Spirit to come and take his brother 's soul . |