Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] his time " in BNC.
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| 1 | His only concern at that time was whether his marriage was going to be able to stand up to his time in jail . |
| 2 | Tribe looks back on his time in England with a sense of practicality , interlaced with many fond memories , some of which he hopes to rekindle if his plans for a visit next year come to fruition . |
| 3 | But he would give generously of his time to such organisations as the British Council , helping to audition young people with ambitions to dance . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | His dad had died long before his time , and that 's how he came into it … the business . |
| 6 | Like Harry the Duck he is an anachronism , born out of his time . |
| 7 | He was a gentle , courteous , convivial , slightly bemused romantic , born out of his time . |
| 8 | Another , more kindly , soul said he was born out of his time . |
| 9 | He spoke movingly of his time in the trenches in the First War and of how a whole generation , many of them his friends , had been wiped out , of the effect that the unemployment of the 1930s had on his political thinking , of how being Prime Minister was less demanding than being an ordinary Minister , of ( and this with tears in his eyes ) his devotion to his late wife , who had fallen dead of a heart attack close to where we were sitting , of his belief in God . |
| 10 | ‘ He possessed the gift of seeing ahead of his time . |
| 11 | Simon the Stripping Vicar had also in his time been Simon the Sex Ton , the Curvy Curate and even the Randy Rabbi . |
| 12 | The Aussie , who leaves at the end of this season to head the Auckland assault on Australia 's Winfield Cup competition , insists playing standards have improved dramatically in his time . |