Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] time he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes er and of course i if er rather like it seems as happened last week , if he seems to have got a bit of time he seems to need to have to extend it |
| 2 | It was Li Chao who first suggested I should have a Chinese name and I was both grateful and honoured when in the course of time he gave me the three-character name of Tdong Lao Fu which meant , literally , ‘ Portrait of Happy Man Climbing Mountain ’ . |
| 3 | In course of time he finds that he is the pet antipathy of his superior officers , that he is made a butt for the amusement of other men on parade , and that if there is any unpleasant work or unpopular bear or point going vacant it falls to his lot to fill it . |
| 4 | In the course of time he was sent to Cornwall to educate the Ack-Ack regiments ( and to examine the Cornish churches ) but the sudden onset of a mysterious and debilitating illness ( which later proved to be high blood-pressure ) led to his being discharged as being unfit for service . |
| 5 | In the course of time he becomes one of the world 's most famous cooks . |
| 6 | In the course of time he and Richard were to become fellow-crusaders and bitter enemies . |
| 7 | In that brief fragment of time he smiled down at me . |
| 8 | At least for the short period of time he expected the combat to last . |
| 9 | During this period of time he made the mistake of threatening the archdeacon , Cautinus , who fled to the court of king Theudebald , announced the death of Gallus , and was himself consecrated bishop on the king 's orders . |
| 10 | it is a waste of time he , he said its a big con , so that 's how they work it now |
| 11 | Mervyn Whyte , secretary of the meeting told me today : ‘ At this point in time he 'll not be on the front row of the grid but Billy Nutt , the clerk of the course , and myself will be going through the speeds later today and deciding the grid positions . |
| 12 | In the nick of time he saw the yellow triangular patch on the shoulder . |
| 13 | And yet he conquered these fears , so that in the fullness of time he became a spirited steeplechaser and a keen rider to hounds . |
| 14 | In April 1962 he wrote ‘ Blowin' in the Wind ’ , and within a short space of time he had been adopted as the spokesman of the civil-rights movement . |
| 15 | Part of Keith 's interest in the documentary style of photography he excels in was , perhaps , further fuelled by the amount of time he has , over the years , spent in part-time social work which has given him access to various kinds of care units . |
| 16 | Old Charlie must have had a bit of a penchant for potholing judging by the amount of time he spent in every rock crevice north of Carlisle , but I prefer to suspend my scepticism and believe that the great man did indeed peel off his powdered wig and roll out a sleeping-bag in all the places that maps and local handouts would have us believe . |
| 17 | It would limit the amount of time he and Cora-Beth could be alone together . |
| 18 | The problem , we must make sure Ray does n't include the amount of time he nee extra he needs to arrive at every meeting half an hour early . |
| 19 | The audience was fidgeting behind him , and there was a limit to the amount of time he intended to chat to this crazy woman next to him in the soiled wedding dress and veil . |
| 20 | He , too , seemed visibly affected by the brief amount of time he had been able to spend with his brother . |
| 21 | She 's had to restrict the amount of time he spends playing them , and she 's warning other parents not to let children use the games for long periods unsupervised . |
| 22 | Simon has now cut right down on the amount of time he spend playing and has also undergone treatment from his doctor . |
| 23 | I do n't think it 'd been very lucrative work with the amount of time he took to it . |
| 24 | And they had the time worked out for every policeman the length of time he was allowed to travel from court to home and back again and you added that time to the time you were engaged in court and it was worked out to the minute — worked out officially how long it took the tram . |
| 25 | The officer who saw the vehicle being kept should be in a position to state the length of time he observed the vehicle being kept on a public road , but see ( B ) 2 of this offence regarding the length of time kept being immaterial . |
| 26 | But the former was impossible with the twins in tow and the latter unthinkable given the length of time he 'd have to wait for one on a Sunday . |
| 27 | Under section 14(4) , the Secretary of State for Transport might dispense with the nationality condition in the case of an individual in view of the length of time he had resided in the United Kingdom and been involved in the fishing industry of the United Kingdom . |
| 28 | ‘ Where , in the case of any fishing vessel , the Secretary of State is satisfied that — ( a ) the vessel would be eligible to be registered as a British fishing vessel but for the fact that any particular individual , or ( as the case may be ) each of a number of particular individuals , is not a British citizen ( and is accordingly not a qualified person ) , and ( b ) it would be appropriate to dispense with the requirement of British citizenship in the case of that individual or those individuals , in view of the length of time he has or they have resided in the United Kingdom and been involved in the fishing industry of the United Kingdom , the Secretary of State may determine that that requirement should be so dispensed with ; and , if he does so , the vessel shall , so long as paragraph ( a ) above applies to it and any such determination remains in force , be treated for the purposes of this Part as eligible to be registered as a British fishing vessel . |
| 29 | Lastly , the power vested in the Secretary of State under section 14(4) of the Act of 1988 to dispense with the nationality requirement in the case of one ( or more ) individuals in view of the length of time he has ( or they have ) resided in the United Kingdom and been involved in the fishing industry there , is not such as to make the nationality requirements compatible with the E.E.C . |
| 30 | Lastly , under section 14(4) , the Secretary of State for Transport could dispense with the nationality condition in the case of an individual in view of the length of time he had resided in the United Kingdom and been involved in the fishing industry of the United Kingdom . |