Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] the time he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although at the time he was ‘ not a great fan of industrial specialism' , his views have changed . |
| 2 | " Able-Oboe-Charlie " was the aircrew phonetics used by the early Pathfinders to identify their Commandant , although at the time he was officially a Commander of the Pathfinder Force , with the acting rank of group captain under the control of No 3 Group for day-to-day administration . |
| 3 | They built a separate development area , and Wilkinson reports that at the time he was writing his book three major new projects were being developed within it , but as none had reached completion there is no data about the effects of this new pattern of introducing new technology in that company . |
| 4 | It is a defence for a person charged with ‘ Being in Charge ’ to prove that at the time he is alleged to have committed the offence the circumstances were such that there was no likelihood of his driving the vehicle whilst the proportion of alcohol in his breath , blood or urine remained likely to exceed the prescribed limit ; but in determining whether there was such a likelihood the court may disregard any injury to him and any damage to the vehicle . |
| 5 | Much of what he says about his money troubles and his illness is consistent with the evidence of extant records which show his salary was often in arrears , and that at the time he says he was ill his salary was being collected for him , indicating his absence from work . |
| 6 | Kidd reflects that at the time he was not given the unqualified support by other members of P-E who felt that the search approach was still inappropriate for a consulting firm with resident consultants on client premises and that it could injure the firm 's consulting practice . |
| 7 | He stated that at the time he left , 1859/60 , the holdings were made into one large holding . |
| 8 | The memoirs were written in a very anti-communist phase of his life , and we know that at the time he received indirect assurances from the head of the Communist Party , Maurice Thorez , that no insurrection was being planned . |
| 9 | The court was told that at the time he thought he had AIDS . |
| 10 | One aspect of the case which is not explored in the judgment is the fact that the appellant was on parole when the offence was committed , although by the time he was sentenced it seems that his licence would either have been close to expiry or have expired already . |
| 11 | But he also remembered that by the time he left school he was ‘ a thoroughly political animal ’ . |
| 12 | Many observers believe that by the time he steps down in Brussels , at the end of 1992 , most small Irish farmers will have accepted his pension plan and he can return as the hero of rural Ireland . |
| 13 | Well , your average fees per term , ten years on , at current inflation rates … will stand at … five thousand a term , give or take , you see … and that 's just when he 's ten … course it 'll be double that by the time he 's seventeen … |
| 14 | The reason for our settling where we did was because Nigel , being an electrical and water engineer , had always believed that by the time he reached retirement the world would be starting to run out of power . |
| 15 | The trouble was that by the time he knew Mosley was a serious electoral threat to his position , it was almost too late . |
| 16 | He 's starting to realise that by the time he 's in a position to do anything that he wants , there 'll be nothing that he really wants to do . |
| 17 | While Ismail Belig may have some evidence for this view , evidence which in any case he does not mention , it is worth pointing out that by the time he was writing , the combination of such important posts would have been highly unusual , if not unknown , whereas in the early days of the Ottoman state it was not uncommon . |
| 18 | Central to child-rearing from the cultural point of view , as we have seen , is that by the time he is six or seven the child should have been able to recapitulate within his own personal psychological development the development history of his culture . |
| 19 | Then reality started to move so fast that by the time he caught up it was all over and they were parked on the hard shoulder . |
| 20 | Then he felt resentful for being made to feel guilty , so that by the time he got back to the Questura all the benefits of his walk had been cancelled out . |
| 21 | He was so funny and entertaining — and made her laugh and smile so much — that by the time he led her from the dance-floor , to fill their plates from the groaning buffet table , she felt far more relaxed and at ease . |
| 22 | The Crown has claimed that by the time he was arrested in the summer of 1991 his alleged computer forays had breached security surrounding a number of systems including one at EC headquarters , another at a world famous centre for cancer research and treatment and others at various universities . |
| 23 | Because they know that by the time he gets to court , he 'll be thrown out , and all the time will be wasted , |
| 24 | He was from London and at the time he left claimed that his wife was homesick . |
| 25 | The trial judge directed the jury if at the time he collected the coins the defendant had formed the dishonest intention of keeping them for himself he was guilty of theft . |
| 26 | It is to steal his own clothes , and by the time he comes to Sonya to confess , the Napoleonic idea is already crumbling into wanting to dare or something even vaguer . |
| 27 | He had left and walked back to the hotel , and by the time he reached it the police were waiting for him in the lobby . |
| 28 | Watson was elected a Fellow and Secretary of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1967 , and by the time he retired in 1979 he had guided it through its greatest period of change since its creation in 1818 , with dramatic increases in membership . |
| 29 | Firelight generally ate a bit of her haynet and by the time he settled down to go to sleep she lay down as well . |
| 30 | There was the slimy membrane and some messy stuff that Nails cleared away diligently and threw outside ; he got some fresh straw and by the time he had done that the foal was trying to stand up , with great difficulty . |