Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.

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1 Noguchi tried in vain to construct an earthwork sculpture at a Japanese-American internment camp where he lived voluntarily for a time during World War II .
2 Anyway he came up to London , she went to London to be a nanny to this woman with three kids like , you know , two babies and a an older one and she said he came up at a time , he said , sorry , you know , got ta finish he 's got this girl pregnant !
3 None of that matters to Kenneth Arnold so much as the fact that he acted selflessly at a time when he was needed .
4 There were , however , some lusty singers among his parishioners , and he looked forward to the time when it might prove possible to fill the chancel with an unsurpliced choir .
5 He spoke enthusiastically at the time of co-opting the help of government , community groups and business — a troika that would transform downtrodden parts of the city into gleaming new shopping malls and day-care centres and rebuilt factories and office space .
6 Judge Alfredo Gustilo said in Manila Burton 's claim that he did not know the contraband was among his belongings was ‘ absurd ’ because customs police found four blocks of hashish hidden in the pair of shoes he had on at the time of his arrest .
7 He said once at the time of Suez with a charge of bitterness , " Those Egyptians are rats . "
8 He wrote just at the time when English was becoming an established literary language and with a felicity which later caused most of his translation — perhaps 75 per cent — to be retained in the King James Bible , the authorised version for 300 years .
9 He crouched still for a time after that , for there was no haste , and now that it was time he found himself afraid ; there might be something to lose there , as well as something to find .
10 He stood there for a time , head bowed and in the end , simply said no .
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