Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adj] time he " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gendarme stood bewildered for a moment , and then ran into the street , where for some time he could be heard blowing his whistle . |
| 2 | He was lucky not to get a prison sentence and claims that since that time he has remained sober . |
| 3 | He played no part in the newly founded Royal Society or the College of Physicians , although at this time he began to describe himself as an ‘ MD ’ . |
| 4 | Lane accepted it without comment , although at another time he might have pressed for more of an answer ; he was n't a man who liked to be kept in the dark . |
| 5 | We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity . |
| 6 | I believe that at one time he was the Prime Minister 's press officer and , indeed , worked in his office . |
| 7 | We asked after Pop and were glad to hear that at that time he was still well . |
| 8 | Perhaps it was fortunate that at that time he discovered girls , and a year later met the Dawsons , who always seemed to have time to stop and gossip with him . |
| 9 | It may be that at this time he was retained also by Simon of Montfort , Earl of Leicester [ q.v. ] , who had awarded him a money fee before 1245 . |
| 10 | So we called round but could n't find a record company , although by this time he was with RCA . |
| 11 | He grew very portly as an old man and although by this time he had become something of a legend to the other members of his club ( " The Hero of Krishnapur " ) , one might have thought that he himself had entirely forgotten about the siege . |
| 12 | Ironically , the most successful and varied stage of Hardy 's architectural career came under Crickmay between 1869 and 1872 , despite the fact that by this time he was working on a freelance basis while writing his first novels . |
| 13 | In the court case of June 1790 , Henry Cecil was awarded £1000 damages and a divorce , but what makes the whole story so remarkable is that by this time he was already secretly remarried . |
| 14 | He had spent less than an hour in the Dragon and during that time he had succeeded in needling at least four men . |
| 15 | It took Maidstone four hours to decide what to do and during that time he drank only coffee . |
| 16 | By the time Johnny moved back to Brighton he had spent over 20 years at Selhurst Park and during that time he had made an invaluable contribution to Palace 's progress both on and off the field , for which he will long be remembered with gratitude . |
| 17 | He had spent nearly all of his forty-eight years in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist , and during that time he had witnessed literally thousands of encounters with people from the Other Side . |
| 18 | And during this time he must have trodden pretty much every footpath there . |
| 19 | In 1579 , he was appointed Justice of the Peace for Kent and during this time he became associated with Sir John Leveson of Whornes Place who later became his close friend . |
| 20 | Lambarde continued living at the Palace until 1598 and during this time he maintained and kept in repair the buildings . |
| 21 | It 's now ten years since he set up Some Bizzare , and in that time he has enticed Matt Johnson , You 've Got Foetus On Your Breath , Psychic TV , Einstuerzende Neubauten and Berlin-born cabaret singer Anges Bernelle into his entourage . |
| 22 | It is nineteen months since Richard Ryder was appointed Government Chief Whip and in that time he has risen to become John Major 's right-hand man . |
| 23 | The craft has been his hobby for the past years , and in that time he has seen it grow immensely in popularity . |
| 24 | But he has been the Labour Party 's chosen candidate for almost two years and in that time he has worked hard to build up a high profile , assiduously interpreting official figures on unemployment , training and hospital waiting lists as well as taking on directors of newly-privatised monopolies . |
| 25 | Besides his political activities Mr. Thomas also found time for lecturing on literary , philosophical and ethical subjects in many parts of the country , and at one time he lectured almost every Sunday in the Town Hall for the Battersea Ethical Society . |
| 26 | This has created severe financial problems and at one time he was heavily in debt to the bank . |
| 27 | He was a director of public companies , the proprietor and editor of a journal , gas inspector and expert witness , and at one time he owned a gold mine ; he did his work in a laboratory of his own … |
| 28 | And at that time he wrote in a letter , ‘ In these concerts I could n't make enough slowings and accelerations . ’ |
| 29 | I 've got one brother , but he was younger than me and at that time he were going to school anyway . |
| 30 | You see so a branch of the er London paper and at that time he was editor of the paper , they came up together , found it here . |