Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] time he " in BNC.

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31 During this time he attended evening classes at the City School and at Glasgow University .
32 During this time he developed an interest in art , to such an extent that he gave up the security of work in 1846 .
33 During this time he introduced cast-iron brake blocks of the type which later came into general use .
34 During this time he expanded the ironmongery business to include the manufacture of wrought-iron conservatories like those advocated by John Claudius Loudon [ q.v. ] , who invented the first wrought-iron glazing bar in 1816 , which was manufactured and later patented in 1818 by W. and D. Bailey of Holborn .
35 During this time he developed and patented several new types of high-pressure steam boiler as well as making improvements to steam-tight glands , valves for pumps , and anti-clinkering fire bars .
36 During this time he was desperately pressed with debts and with the payment of his common service of 1,450 florins to the Roman curia , which he effected by February 1321 .
37 During this time he 'd settled with ease into the household , which had surprised the girls who looked after him ; they had anticipated difficulty .
38 In 1579 , he was appointed Justice of the Peace for Kent and during this time he became associated with Sir John Leveson of Whornes Place who later became his close friend .
39 Lambarde continued living at the Palace until 1598 and during this time he maintained and kept in repair the buildings .
40 During this time he had admitted killing William Egan .
41 During this time he participated in the negotiations in Geneva to end the war in Indochina .
42 During this time he introduced himself to the Governor of New South Wales , who received me most kindly and offered me every assistance ’ , and paid his respects to Captain Philip Parker King , who had commanded his expedition with Lady Franklin to Recherche Bay the previous December , and who was now resident in Sydney as Port Officer and Superintendent of Government Vessels .
43 During this time he falls completely under its spell .
44 For some time he walked up and down in silence .
45 For some time he hung like a bird watching it .
46 For some time he listened as the sounds drew nearer .
47 For some time he had ignored rumours to that effect but now , he told reporters , he was " immensely pleased " .
48 Hoping that , in the changed climate of opinion in England , he would soon be granted a pardon , Kinloch returned secretly to London , where for some time he remained under cover until early in 1823 he returned clandestinely to Scotland .
49 In 1841 he joined Messrs Fox & Henderson in Smethwick near Birmingham , where for some time he held the post of chief draughtsman and designer .
50 The gendarme stood bewildered for a moment , and then ran into the street , where for some time he could be heard blowing his whistle .
51 For some time he had thought her one of the most beautiful girls he had ever seen .
52 but , for some time he , and it , it just used to let him get it out of his system
53 For some time he struggles to explain this feeling , and eventually he realises that the taste is of course exactly the taste which he enjoyed as a small boy when his Aunt Léonie gave him a madeline dipped in an infusion .
54 All through this time he hardly had any painkillers as it was very important he did n't feel that he could use his leg before it was strong enough .
55 If the baby-sitter orders my son to complete his home work after that time he is disregarding my instructions and his duty .
56 After some time he found himself down at the Green , where Emily had not come with him ; and remembered Emily , and decided that he must ask her to become engaged to him before he went , to wait for him ; would she agree ?
57 After some time he appeared , walking towards me .
58 After some time he died , coronary thrombosis .
59 After closing time he was walking home with a friend when he felt an arm round his neck and was confronted by Simpson , who wielded the knife and demanded he hand over his jumper and coat .
60 During such time he was wont to arise at 5.30 every morning in order to be ‘ in tune with the rhythms of the day ’ .
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