Example sentences of "[verb] in his time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his more pessimistic moments some rogue part of his mind knew this darkness to be inevitable , although he did not expect it to come in his time , maybe not even in his son 's . |
| 2 | Defoe in his time called it one of the finest cities in Europe . |
| 3 | Josiah Wedgwood died in 1795 and is remembered as the ‘ Father of English Potters ’ , but it was not only as a pottery manufacturer that he was renowned and respected in his time . |
| 4 | Thalberg ( 1812–71 ) was considered in his time Liszt 's only true rival . |
| 5 | As a juvenile romanticist Kingston , like his contemporary Ballantyne , used the device of the intrusive author accepted in his time and , besides , the didacticism expected in books for the young , didacticism made easier by the continuity and the extent of time afforded by serial publication in the boys ' magazines of the period . |
| 6 | After the wounds he 'd seen in his time , how could one little splinter have such an effect ? |
| 7 | RANGERS are to spend £500,000 on a new pitch in time for next season — assuming an abbreviated summer break allows them enough time to restore the worst playing surface Walter Smith can remember in his time at Ibrox , writes Hugh Keevins . |
| 8 | Marx sees such an argument as a subtle legitimation of private property as it existed in his time , because it made it basic to human nature . |
| 9 | And while Souness paid tribute to Dalglish for all he achieved in his time on Merseyside , he intends to bury their former alliance for tomorrow 's 90-minute battle of wits . |
| 10 | He cites Luthce 's ability to claim that truth was ‘ immanent ’ in the text of the bible as being associated with the growth of printing in his time ( Rommetveit , 1982 ) . |
| 11 | But for one other person , perhaps , Isambard had cared in his time , before affection changed to anger and hate ; and not even the last and holiest stone cell of all had kept Master Harry safe from his insatiable enmity . |
| 12 | Frost , regarded in his time as the ‘ finest comic artist in the U.S. ’ were given to the Club in 1972 by Mr. R.S. Green . |
| 13 | Thus Regan , in memoirs not noted for their kindness to the president , says , ‘ [ Reagan 's ] grasp of economic theory as it had been taught in his time ( Eureka College , class of 1932 ) was excellent , and he kept abreast of later theory . |
| 14 | The late Roy Hand , an internationally respected Radionics expert who worked from his base in Sydney , Australia , treated in his time around 5000 patients whom he had never seen . |
| 15 | By contrast Engels 's position was that the family , as it was known in his time , had not always existed in that form , that marriage as it was known at that time had also not always existed . |
| 16 | He then went on , chapter by chapter , to provide an evolutionary ethology of behaviour as known in his time , treating reflexes , instincts , intelligence ( with learning experiments ) , social behaviour , and finally conceptual thought and purposive self-conscious development . |
| 17 | Roger Fenton was immensely well known in his time for his landscapes and still lifes . |
| 18 | Roger Fenton was immensely well known in his time for his landscapes and still lifes . |
| 19 | ‘ Chris , that 's just one of the many strokes that Martinez has pulled in his time ; and he still goes laughing on his way to the bank with his twenty-five per cent commission . |
| 20 | Erm can you tell me some more about your father 's job and what he did in his time . |
| 21 | John of Salisbury tells us that a new custom had arisen in his time that on the day on which a young man was to be girded with the belt of knighthood he went solemnly to church , laid his sword on the altar , and offered himself and his service to God . |
| 22 | Winterbottom himself believes that the ideal make-up of a flanker has changed in his time . |