Example sentences of "his time " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the distance of a century , some of Van Gogh 's enthusiastic appraisals of the art of his time look curious ; but then , this artist acting as a critic was especially vulnerable to admiring art with a moral purpose , or work from which he was able to draw inspiration . |
| 2 | It is not easy to know how far Kafka 's fictions can be thought to answer descriptively to the historical realities of his time , let alone to those which his fictions are often thought to have predicted . |
| 3 | But to say the truth , madam , let a man love reading never so well , when once he comes to know this tawn , he finds so many better ways of passing the four-and-twenty hours , that 't were ten thousand pities he should consume his time in that . |
| 4 | I explained to him about the boxing-match and the waterfall and he went up close and examined the glass minutely , different areas of it , taking his time . |
| 5 | He was as Romantic as any man of his time , and more so than most ; one ideally suited to Leonard 's own deeply Romantic ( and romantic ) strains — imagists both , rather than surrealists . |
| 6 | Poetry still continued to claim much of his time , and several pieces were penned or started such as ‘ Snow Is Falling ’ , written to the music of Ray Charles , Edith Piaf and Nina Simone , among others . |
| 7 | They would n't know that his trip had been sponsored by the Socialist Labor Party of North America and his time , if he stuck to his commitments , was to be all booked up . |
| 8 | Jimmy Connors has won many a tight match in his time . |
| 9 | My grandfather had always taken a keen interest in my work , and I had an equal admiration of the stories of his time spent in Burma during the Second World War . |
| 10 | He was an ecologist of international significance , widely acknowledged — indeed revered — as the pre-eminent British field botanist of his time , and his prowess was the more remarkable given that he was born , blind in one eye , into a poor Welsh family , that he left school at 14 , and that he spent the first 33 years of his working life as a North Wales quarryman . |
| 11 | He bides his time . |
| 12 | In his time he has tried a lot of things : card-sharping , prison , wife-thrashing and perhaps wife-murder , child-violation , even good works . |
| 13 | Obviously the other side of the gap had to be blocked in , and to represent the 1840s the choice fell on Timofey Granovsky , in his time a renowned liberal professor and public speaker , and to a lesser extent a man of letters . |
| 14 | Dostoevsky has an impudent way of making his narrator declare ‘ As a chronicler I confine myself to presenting events exactly as they happened , and it 's not my fault if they appear incredible ’ — like the son of the house writing home about his time on the North-West Frontier of India . |
| 15 | Terry Eagleton , the leading Marxist critic in England , has occupied most of them in his time . |
| 16 | Yet Leavis was in many respects not a man of his time ; though himself a dedicated university teacher , he was in spirit the last of the Victorian sages , who were men of letters and of affairs , not academics ( prescinding from Arnold 's and Ruskin 's marginal tenure of chairs at Oxford ) . |
| 17 | In this climate , the academic in English and other subjects in the humanities , who is busy , who publishes a lot , who goes to conferences , can not but be preferred to the quiet scholar , who keeps a low profile , even seems rather idle , but is taking his time over a major piece of scholarly writing that may involve many years ' work and which he does not intend to give to the world until he is ready . |
| 18 | What with all this baring of fangs and of ultimate weapons , these snarlings and ‘ long-term psychic damage ’ , how is one to protest mildly that Prothero is — with an engagingly archaic elegance ( ‘ stamps a man too disadvantageously ’ ) — telling Pound that he need n't waste his time submitting manuscripts to the Quarterly Review for the time being ? |
| 19 | And of such professors , how many would rest content with the conclusion that Pound reached in 1918 : ‘ A critic must spend some of his time asking questions — which perhaps no one can answer . |
| 20 | This is appropriate in more ways than one , since , like McTaggart , Tabner has remained somewhat apart from the more experimental tendencies of his time . |
| 21 | A sniping and competitive scrum-half straight out of the All Black mould , he has to serve out his time but qualifies to play in the league in the new year . |
| 22 | Reputedly Hong Kong 's highest-paid barrister before politics began to consume virtually all his time , he has many fans among other lawyers , who elected him to the Legislative Council in 1985 and 1988 as their profession 's representative . |
| 23 | Instead of threatening Cumani , the punter with the violent rather than lucky streak should be kicking himself for not biding his time before backing Shellac . |
| 24 | He recently retired as editor of the Eye but he still spends much of his time at the magazine 's cramped offices in Soho . |
| 25 | But Smart Move was fast and clear , leaving the others to chase his time in vain . |
| 26 | Noel Hayes , a stockbroker who in his time has been a building analyst and up until the beginnig of this year was head of sales at Citicorp-Scrimgeour Vickers , becomes chief executive and Sam Oxford , the former chairman of Magnet & Southerns , joins as a non-executive director . |
| 27 | Keele University acknowledged Michael Akehurst 's position as one of the foremost international lawyers of his time by awarding him a personal chair in February 1989 . |
| 28 | He now spends most of his time in Northern Kenya , where the Moran ( tribesmen ) still cling to tradition , just . |
| 29 | Emma-Jane Mac , in marvellous form throughout the week , looked as though she might beat his time until Everest Oyster stopped at the penultimate fence . |
| 30 | He was influenced by the leading French poets of his time : images seem drawn from Apollinaire 's play , Les Mamelles de Tiresias , including the large white form dominating the left of the canvas which , according to Miro , is a horse . |