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

  Next page
No Sentence
1 He toyed with the time of Munich , the decisions and failures to decide that had made the world he lived in .
2 As we have seen , it was not just the anthropology which he read at the time of composition which played its part in the great works of the early 1920s .
3 Great praise has been given to Mr. Baker , the United States Secretary of State , for arranging that conference and so fulfilling the commitment that he gave at the time of the Gulf war , when he said that he and President Bush would do all that they could to bring the parties to the negotiating table .
4 Despite the terror which as a result of his ruthlessness , cruelty and ungovernable rages his name evoked , he had by the time of the British invasion lost effective control of his country except around his mountain fortress of Magdala .
5 He said by the time of the next election it would no longer be possible to cancel Trident .
6 Although urged by his party to remain , he thought , like a decent democrat , that it was time for someone else to have a go , and he retired at the time of the 1987 General Election .
  Next page