Example sentences of "[det] [adj] time he " in BNC.
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| 1 | The basis of the Good Friday belief appears to have been that on that day the soil is redeemed from the power of Satan — the old chthonic god of the pre-Christian religion — and for this brief time he has no influence on it at all . |
| 2 | At this particular time he liked to begin the unwinding process . |
| 3 | Girl , he called her , but this last time he 'd called her Vi and written that he loved her , and he 'd never done that before . |
| 4 | He began to wonder how much more time he would need to waste before phoning Blanche with the bad news that he had found nothing . |
| 5 | He saves his monthly salary slips , and his bank statements and cheque stubs , and reads through them all each time he adds another item , entranced by the complex passage of money through his hands . |
| 6 | When I fink of all that time 'e jus ' sat at the front door wiv 'is 'ead in 'is 'ands , I shudder . |
| 7 | However , during all that time he records that he was seldom free from pain . |
| 8 | All that time he has been kept going mainly by Russian hand-outs . |
| 9 | During the Depression Silver sold china and glass in Fifth Avenue , worked a petrol pump , and sold cigarettes wholesale ; but all this time he was collecting Walt Whitman ; he also studied for a Master 's degree in English at Boston University , which he was awarded in 1941 . |
| 10 | All this time he had been working like a madman , limping about overseeing the repairs and helping in spite of his own wounds wherever his strength was needed . |
| 11 | All this time he was propelling me into a little room near the front door , and I was absolutely stiff with fright . |
| 12 | All this time he had been keeping a reserve force waiting in the library . |
| 13 | Why now , when all this time he 'd stuck rigidly to her real , rather austere christian name , had he suddenly switched to the softer-sounding Rory ? |
| 14 | Miranda sat in her room feeling thoroughly miserable , and going back over and over again in her head every single significant thing that Miles had said or done since that first time he kissed her on the Promenade . |
| 15 | How he disciplined himself to make ends meet in that difficult time he explained in his book What To Do When Someone Has Debt Problems , A Practical Survival Guide ( 1985 ) , in the Introduction to which he wrote : |
| 16 | ‘ In any other time he would have been a pirate or a highwayman . ’ |
| 17 | That was all , the slightest touch of his fingers on hers , but she was reminded of that other time he had touched her , when he 'd helped her out of the pool , and now , as then , something inside her responded to his touch . |
| 18 | Beckenbauer told Penthouse magazine that next time he comes back he hopes to be a WOMAN — because he would like to bear children . |