Example sentences of "[prep] [num] time he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides his political activities Mr. Thomas also found time for lecturing on literary , philosophical and ethical subjects in many parts of the country , and at one time he lectured almost every Sunday in the Town Hall for the Battersea Ethical Society . |
| 2 | At one time he left off animal food , as he said , that his ‘ teeming brain ’ might not be in a greater mist than was natural to it . |
| 3 | At one time he also had a nanny , who came from the German-speaking part of Switzerland . |
| 4 | At one time he had intended a whole chapter of The Complete History of Wimbledon to be devoted to the issue of Maltby , but somehow the chapter had never materialized . |
| 5 | At one time he had taken a mild interest in literature , especially erotic works , but of late it had flagged . |
| 6 | At one time he had been the leader of the local rescue brigade and was familiar with the use of breathing apparatus . |
| 7 | At one time he was a sheep-farmer himself and , upon his deification , placed his flock in the heavens so as to keep a close eye on them . |
| 8 | At one time he tried to assemble his thoughts in some way ; would it be better to go back to a law-office stool , with prospects of promotion , such as he had thankfully left to go to Glasgow , to Oxford , then to London ? |
| 9 | But he was taking far too many punches which at one time he would have slipped with ease . |
| 10 | At one time he was always making noises like a chicken . |
| 11 | This has created severe financial problems and at one time he was heavily in debt to the bank . |
| 12 | At one time he was on 25 committees , over and above those within the University , and was chairman of many of these . |
| 13 | Apparently at one time he was married to a young woman who was jealous of another woman . |
| 14 | At one time he intended to become a Catholic and even at one stage a priest . |
| 15 | At one time he engaged in privateering and Burghley recommended marriage to any rich widow . |
| 16 | He was a director of public companies , the proprietor and editor of a journal , gas inspector and expert witness , and at one time he owned a gold mine ; he did his work in a laboratory of his own … |
| 17 | At one time he used to spend winters with Lord Henry in a little house in Algiers , but now he no longer travelled outside England . |
| 18 | At another NEW party , there had been present one of the journal 's current gurus , Midrinovic , probably taken up first by Orage , who collected such people ( at one time he was a disciple of Gurdjieff ) . |
| 19 | We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity . |
| 20 | At one time he , he lived at , they lived at but er er she was a widow and she was ninety but she was very good to us and , but we had er , we had apartments but there was a lock on both sides of the door , you know what I mean , we were quite self-contained and we had er er a narrow stairs and because of the war I could n't , you could n't er , I used to scrub the stairs down because you could n't buy carpet in those days , you see because of the war and to the shortage of stuff and so I used to keep those stairs nice and , we had a , a , we went , as we went up these stairs erm it , I suppose originally , you see , it would have been back stairs for the servants , you see , in the hall and this old lady used to go in and if ever she had the doctor she used to ask me if I would go and sit with her and hold her hand while the doctor came , you see . |
| 21 | I believe that at one time he was the Prime Minister 's press officer and , indeed , worked in his office . |
| 22 | At one time he lived in Devon I think and he also has association with Yorkshire , so that is could be quite probably in the countryside but it does n't have to be a forest , does n't have to be a fox out there but he does actually say I imagine this midnight moment 's forest . |
| 23 | George Ward started smoking at nine … at one time he 's was getting through eighty a day … |