Example sentences of "time he [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was a good scene and , by the time he got to the Hooded Owl speech , he was back on course . |
| 2 | He sank into the waiting limo unshaven , crumpled , white-faced , nervous , shattered and by the time he got to the posh Beverly Hills Hotel , in need of the complimentary bottle of Scotch a thoughtful management had left in his room . |
| 3 | By the time he got to the oldest , a tiresome socialite friend of his mother 's , he started : ‘ I do n't think much … . ’ |
| 4 | And by the time he got to the next corner , we 'd be back on the corner . ' |
| 5 | He passes through it every time he rides to the old earth fort on the crest . |
| 6 | It is strange , however , that Garrick did not subscribe for Leapor 's volumes , since at almost the same time he subscribed for the Irish bricklayer poet , Henry Jones , though this may have been done to please Chesterfield . |
| 7 | In calculating the time when a review is due , the starting point is : ( a ) where a person is arrested outside the police station ( i ) the time he arrives at the relevant station ; or ( ii ) the time 24 hours after the time of his arrest , whichever is the earlier ; ( b ) where a person attends the police station voluntarily and is subsequently arrested there the time of arrest ; ( c ) where a person is arrested outside England and Wales : ( i ) the time he arrives at the first station to which he is taken in the police area in which the offence for which he has been arrested is being investigated ; or ( ii ) 24 hours after the time of his entry into the country whichever is the earlier ; ( d ) where a person is arrested in another part of the country and has to be taken to the police area where the offence is being investigated for questioning — the time at which he arrived at the first police station in the police area in question . |
| 8 | In calculating the time when a review is due , the starting point is : ( a ) where a person is arrested outside the police station ( i ) the time he arrives at the relevant station ; or ( ii ) the time 24 hours after the time of his arrest , whichever is the earlier ; ( b ) where a person attends the police station voluntarily and is subsequently arrested there the time of arrest ; ( c ) where a person is arrested outside England and Wales : ( i ) the time he arrives at the first station to which he is taken in the police area in which the offence for which he has been arrested is being investigated ; or ( ii ) 24 hours after the time of his entry into the country whichever is the earlier ; ( d ) where a person is arrested in another part of the country and has to be taken to the police area where the offence is being investigated for questioning — the time at which he arrived at the first police station in the police area in question . |
| 9 | In Genet 's case it produced among other things Prisoner of Love , a record of the time he spent with the Black Panthers 's in the US and Palestinian soldiers in Jordan and Lebanon . |
| 10 | In fact , for a time he saw in the New Order in France a possible source of ideas which he could implement in the construction of his New Order ( Nizam-i Cedit ) in Turkey . |
| 11 | Of course Wooderson could get things wrong — like the time he went for the British mile record and broke the world time . |
| 12 | One time he went to the wrong house just after they 'd moved . |
| 13 | And then someone has a conversation with someone else and then someone else has a conversation with someone else and if a man was to walk right the way through the police station he has about five or six conversations , and by the time he gets to the other end of the police station he 's forgotten the first conversation . |
| 14 | MB 's is wearing clothes that do not fit in the first example eg. This time he refers to the good opinions that people have of him as new clothes and killing the king would be like throwing away hardly worn clothes . |
| 15 | St Augustine did not explain how the mind could be an accurate chronometer for the timing of external events , but as the pioneer of the study of psychological time he stands in the front rank of those who have contributed to the understanding of our sense of time . |
| 16 | Eb could not scream for help , because his jaws were gagged with a handful of dirty cotton-waste , and every time he slipped on the wet paving-stones , they hauled him back to his feet with a blow and a curse , dragging him with them . |
| 17 | Many a time he commented upon the mental rapport he found with his most intelligent animals . |
| 18 | Larry covers ‘ working-class sport for the working classes ’ , one of his classics being the time he reported on the local-government elections in Westminster . |
| 19 | For a time he puzzled over the best title . |
| 20 | Monday marked the first time he spoke from the Oval Office , sitting at John F Kennedy 's desk , on a national holiday celebrating George Washington 's birthday . |