Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] time he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had spent less than an hour in the Dragon and during that time he had succeeded in needling at least four men . |
| 2 | During that time he took his decision about Marler : to continue keeping an eye on him . |
| 3 | During that time he sought inspiration and enrichment of the texture of the story in the surrounding countryside , in the paintings of Turner ( ‘ What he paints chiefly is light as modified by objects ’ ) and Romney ( ‘ I am struck by the red glow of [ his ] backgrounds , and his red flesh shades ’ ) , in the faces of women he met at dinner parties or saw by chance in a passing omnibus . |
| 4 | It took Maidstone four hours to decide what to do and during that time he drank only coffee . |
| 5 | By the time Johnny moved back to Brighton he had spent over 20 years at Selhurst Park and during that time he had made an invaluable contribution to Palace 's progress both on and off the field , for which he will long be remembered with gratitude . |
| 6 | He had lived outwith Scotland for only 5 years but during that time he had travelled further by land and had seen a greater number of interesting places than most people do in a lifetime . |
| 7 | During that time he made important progress in a number of directions . |
| 8 | During that time he proved to be a wonderful companion . |
| 9 | During that time he was ordered by gang members to shave off his beard to change his appearance and was again threatened that his family would be harmed if he did not do as he was told . |
| 10 | During that time he never finished lower than 24th on the official Order of Merit and was a regular member of Europe 's Ryder Cup side . |
| 11 | During that time he may mate with other females , and add the eggs to his collection . |
| 12 | During that time he also rode for Ferguson when he rode Lacken Beau for the Ballymena trainer at Downpatrick . |
| 13 | He had spent nearly all of his forty-eight years in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist , and during that time he had witnessed literally thousands of encounters with people from the Other Side . |
| 14 | During that time he worked with wool blending as Teasing Foreman and latterly as assistant to the Raw Materials ' Manager in the Warehouse office . |
| 15 | Although Ross had insisted on seeing her every day , during that time he had never done anything more than kiss her hand . |
| 16 | During that time he has been pushing hard to make up any lost ground . |
| 17 | About this time he started to wonder whether he ought to be a monk . |
| 18 | At about this time he acquired the churches of Brightwalton and Melton Mowbray , gifts from the monks of Battle and Lewes . |
| 19 | At about this time he returned to Courthill to assist his father , and so he was able to use all the resources of the smithy to make the kind of machine that was in his mind . |
| 20 | During this time he became acquainted with John Ray , the great English naturalist , and Robert Boyle , the philosopher , both of whom gave help and encouragement to the young man . |
| 21 | During this time he was inspired by a book called London Labour and London Poor by Henry Mayhew . |
| 22 | During this time he becomes all the world to her , and he is grateful but unaware of her affection . |
| 23 | During this time he was ordained deacon and priest . |
| 24 | And during this time he must have trodden pretty much every footpath there . |
| 25 | During this time he does not feed , but relies on his body fat , accumulated during the period of good summer feeding — this prolonged fast may later prove very costly . |
| 26 | During this time he earned a reputation as an intrepid aerial adventurer , in whom no less a person than King George III took a special interest in his ballooning exploits . |
| 27 | During this time he had remained by the door , his expressionless gaze following her every move . |
| 28 | During this time he continued to work on the design of docks and harbours in the Isle of Man , the river Mersey , and Cardiff , as well as many of the Trinity House lighthouses . |
| 29 | During this time he shared lodgings with W. A. S. Benson , a metalwork designer and friend of William Morris [ qq.v . ] . |
| 30 | During this time he taught Irish extensively and in 1908 founded St Enda 's , a boys ' bilingual secondary school . |