Example sentences of "at the same time [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt a sense of guilt but at the same time knew he could never have spoken to her anyway . |
| 2 | So I am proposing with him to er undertake a fairly simple but comprehensive business of reading the bass clef , using the left hand , and introducing it into the kind of music that he already plays , and at the same time getting him to play other music as well , which he seems to be very happy . |
| 3 | Taking all these things together , I think they give ground for the suspicion expressed by Mr. Henderson and other Labour ministers that Mr. MacDonald had deliberately planned the scheme of a National government ; which would at the same time enable him to retain the position of Prime Minister and to associate with colleagues with whom he was more in sympathy than he had ever been with his Labour colleagues … |
| 4 | When Jess holds the ball , looking for men to beat , the truly hooked observer is caught in that exquisite dilemma of wishing he 'd get rid of it so as not to risk failure , while at the same time hoping he 'll carry on regardless and do something outrageous . |
| 5 | Nasser 's lower-middle-class background contributed to the widening of his political interests beyond those imaginable to the fellahin , the peasantry ; while at the same time making him aware of the latter 's situation , and the political and economic oppression suffered . |
| 6 | When it was clear that the putsch had failed , Yeltsin made Grachev a hero and even proposed ( what was not yet properly in his gift ) the post of Soviet defence minister but its leaders were still at large , Yeltsin offered Grachev the future post of Russian defence minister , at the same time asking him to help arrest the plotters . |
| 7 | She wanted him to stop yet at the same time wanted him to go on in the hope that the lovely sensations would begin again . |
| 8 | If he fails to do so , the mortgagee will be entitled to an order of foreclosure absolute , the effect of which will be to vest the mortgaged property in him absolutely , but at the same time to prevent him — even if the property should prove insufficient — from claiming payment from the mortgagor , except upon terms of giving him a fresh right to redeem . |
| 9 | Out to provoke Theo into a declaration of loyalty , and at the same time sting him for continuing to belong to a hated class , he charged him with hypocrisy and self-righteousness in refusing to belong to either side . |
| 10 | In 1800 he became assistant to the latter , who at the same time gave him a post in the Office of Works as labourer in trust at Carlton House and also employed him in connection with his work as surveyor of the ordnance ; his first recorded works — minor country-house commissions in Staffordshire , of 1803–5 — were designed in James 's office for execution by the Wyatt family building business ; and in 1805 he submitted designs for Downing College , Cambridge , after those by James had been severely criticized by Thomas Hope [ q.v. ] , perhaps in an attempt to salvage the commission for the family . |