Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] his time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Former Guatemalan President Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo , who had proposed the creation of Parlacén in 1986 , had been accused by critics inside Guatemala of seeking the presidency of the new body in order to claim immunity from prosecution for crimes he had allegedly committed during his time as President . |
| 2 | It is often said of the Prime Minister that he retains all the instincts and skills which were politically honed during his time in the Whips ' Office . |
| 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 | Owen had seen it done during his time in Alexandria , where hysterical prostitutes were quickly restored to life and reason by an experienced old Austrian police officer of the Labban Red Light quarter . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | After the wounds he 'd seen in his time , how could one little splinter have such an effect ? |
| 8 | He found it difficult to see what progress had been made since his time . |
| 9 | His creativity continued unabated to the end of his life , but his efficiency in administration and political reform soon led to enormous demands being made on his time . |
| 10 | He exists in a series of time-capsules , deeply aware of personal responsibilities , of demands made on his time , of kindnesses he wishes to offer , but nonetheless often unable to escape from the maelstrom he has created around himself . |
| 11 | It was not a job that Ernie Brewer had had time to get around to , with all the other demands the garden made on his time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Alexander , Duke of Ross , was born before his time on the thirtieth April 1514 ! ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Roger Fenton was immensely well known in his time for his landscapes and still lifes . |
| 20 | Roger Fenton was immensely well known in his time for his landscapes and still lifes . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | Hector is a man who is simply perverted by his time : his speech in the war council shows that , with different values prevalent , he might not have opted to continue such a war . |
| 23 | Ray McSharry had long believed since his time as Ireland 's Farm Minister that linking price policy to production favoured big farmers and disadvantaged smaller ones . |
| 24 | Ray McSharry had long believed since his time as Ireland 's Farm Minister that linking price policy to production favoured big farmers and disadvantaged smaller ones . |
| 25 | Even David Owen was later to admit that they should have been scrapped during his time at the Foreign Office in 1 977–9 . |
| 26 | At 29 , Zoltan Illes had a background in both scientific research and green activism obtained during his time at Yale University . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Winterbottom himself believes that the ideal make-up of a flanker has changed in his time . |