Example sentences of "he [was/were] [adj] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was tall by the time he reached the counter , with that thin , stringy look of a rider and the ching … ching sound of spurs . |
| 2 | He was married at the time but he was nae . |
| 3 | Indraugnir was mighty even as dragons measure strength but even he was weary by the time he bore Aenarion to his destination . |
| 4 | No wonder he was weary by the time he walked up to his front door at the end of each day . |
| 5 | ‘ But he was unconscious by the time the Pitts died . |
| 6 | He was unconscious by the time he arrived at hospital in Sanford and remained in a coma until he died . |
| 7 | A partial answer might be that he was confident at the time that Argentina would be the first country to exploit atomic energy for industrial purposes . |
| 8 | ( 22 November 1780 ) The tenor , Anton Raaff , who was singing the title role , caused difficulties for different reasons — he was 65 at the time and his voice was past its best : |
| 9 | He added that he was concerned about the time it took for the incident to be reported to the Inspectorate of Pollution and the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , he was busy at the time , you see . |
| 11 | He got him to hospital and the doctors said that he lived for 70 minutes , but he was dead by the time we got there . |
| 12 | He was single at the time , but not for long . |
| 13 | Yes whether he was naked at the time of the arrest or or just er , what , what I 'm getting at is er that I put some trousers on Mr . |
| 14 | He was off-duty at the time and was on his way to Sandon to collect his police dog . |
| 15 | Well because he was half at the time it was just before I left at about nine to come down here you see . |