Example sentences of "on his [noun] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And so it was that he gained his passport to that respectability which lay so easily on his shoulders by the time his picture was painted : he would be apprenticed . |
| 3 | He did have ( and I know this as I was on his staff at the time ) some sympathy with Coastal Command in view of its flight in the Atlantic , particularly in the Western Approaches and more especially in what was called the " black pit " , this was an area in the Atlantic where the RAF could not give air cover to the convoys either from Ireland . |
| 4 | In fact he had about eighteen birds on his books at the time , ranging in age from two weeks upwards , and he was hand-rearing them . |
| 5 | How well he is able to cope with the situation will depend partly on his age at the time and partly on how carefully the adults around him handle the situation . |
| 6 | It played on his mind for a time and eventually he had to work out a kind of therapy to get her out of his brain . |
| 7 | I was actually living on his farm at the time . |