Example sentences of "[prep] him during the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The origin of ITV can be explained in many ways : as a classic case ( perhaps the first , post-war ) of high pressure political lobbying ; as Churchill 's revenge on the BBC for its disdainful treatment of him during the 1926 General Strike and in his wilderness years in the 1930s , when he was largely kept off the air ; or as part of the Conservative move to ‘ set the people free ’ from the bureaucracy and greyness allegedly intrinsic to Labour planning and the construction of the welfare state ( sweets , be it remembered , did not finally come off ration until 1953 ) .
2 In fact , my sheer busyness had squeezed out the close intimacy I had known with him during the first few months of the year after my operation .
3 I fell in love with him during the two years of filming .
4 And of course , Bullitt had directly observed the man and interacted with him during the critical time at , at the Versailles conference .
5 While his parents could only be with him during the occasional break in a hectic schedule , at least Diana knew that he was under the same skies .
6 I must thrash things out with him during the next few months . ’
7 Mr. Mendez had bought maybe 25 or 30 from him during the past year .
8 Lucien had had little experience of female-kind in his life , and it was the women of Mandru 's household who were the most kind to him during the first traumatic days of his life there .
9 And because this technique will have been explained to him during the early part of the consultation , he will find it quite simple to do .
10 I certainly feel it was a great delight to him during the last days of his life . ’
11 I certainly feel it was a great delight to him during the last days of his life . ’
12 The courts have recently demonstrated a reaction against an absurdly over-generous approach to the construction of agreements in the employee 's favour : see Home Counties Dairies Ltd v Skilton [ 1970 ] 1 WLR 526 in which the defendant was employed by the plaintiffs as a milkman and he expressly agreed that for a period of one year after his employment terminated he would not 'serve or sell milk or dairy produce " to any person who had been a customer of his employers and who had been served by him during the six months prior to his leaving .
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