Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] his time " in BNC.

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1 ‘ 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 .
2 Winterbottom himself believes that the ideal make-up of a flanker has changed in his time .
3 After the wounds he 'd seen in his time , how could one little splinter have such an effect ?
4 ROBERT SAM ANSON 's ‘ The Man Who Shot JFK ’ ( February ) was the first of many articles I read on the same subject — but I kept returning to his time and time again .
5 He did talk about his time as the Dauphin in a way that made people fairly sure that if the Stratford management had come to him with an offer , he would have grabbed it .
6 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 .
7 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 .
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