Example sentences of "of his [noun] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | At their last meeting a line had been reached , and despite the urgings of his senses at the time , he was not sure that they wanted to cross it . |
| 2 | He visited the home of Simon Peter , was supported by well-to-do people and never encouraged Zacchaeus to dispose of the whole of his wealth at the time when he returned money to those he had cheated . |
| 3 | Mrs Kennerley sent a copy of the letter to his campaign team as proof of his patriotism at the time . |
| 4 | ‘ Michel said I reminded him of his audience at the time when he made speeches . |
| 5 | During our work with this widow , whose husband had died very unexpectedly , it turned out that since the time of his death until the time she contacted us , she had kept herself in a state of perpetual motion between her house and that of her son who lived some fifty miles away . |
| 6 | In the following sentence the narrator comments on what happened a week later than the time of the lady 's speech , from the point of view of his context at the time of writing his contribution to the novel , In a week afterwards … |
| 7 | Leaving aside the issue of his sincerity at the time , his statement has lived on to become a condemnation of his fellow Republican Ronald Reagan , who is guilty of the most alarming lapse of self-restraint in the history of American environmental management . |
| 8 | For the present we may note that every person is considered to start life with a ‘ domicile or origin ’ , which will be , as a rule , the domicile of his father at the time of his birth ; and that this domicile of origin continues until it is shown that some other domicile has been acquired , and is restored whenever an acquired domicile is lost without the acquisition of another . |