Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] time he [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During that time he may mate with other females , and add the eggs to his collection . |
| 2 | And during this time he must have trodden pretty much every footpath there . |
| 3 | The gendarme stood bewildered for a moment , and then ran into the street , where for some time he could be heard blowing his whistle . |
| 4 | That may be so ; but on the other hand , if the plaintiff 's contention is correct , the solicitor may abstain from delivering his bill for 20 years , and then at the end of that time he may deliver it and sue after the expiration of a month from its delivery . |
| 5 | With the coming of civilisation and the beginning of this , the third of the Three Periods into which the reader is reminded the explanation of the Created God is divided , man was on the threshold of the era of his greatest testing , even though at that time he may not have been aware of it . |
| 6 | At that time he would have been like many thousand of other youngsters , the sweepings of the hungry ‘ forties . |
| 7 | At that time he will establish God 's kingdom for all to see . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is just conceivable , however that , even at this time he may have started to indulge in a very simple form of god worship entirely on his own as a single individual , group worship following much later . |
| 10 | Erm and then he 's talking , he 's going on to education which er obviously at this time he would think is very important erm because that 's how he would start the revolution , you know , i in the first place . |
| 11 | At some time he may also have sent an expedition against Normandy which was defeated , and his Helmet coin type , perhaps current from 1003 to 1009 , depicts him in armour ; according to the surviving verse on him by the Icelandic poet Gunnlaug Serpent 's Tongue , the army feared Æthel-red no less than God , and N.P. Brooks has shown that he increased the military burdens on his people by requiring more of his soldiers to wear helmets and byrnies . |
| 12 | But he was taking far too many punches which at one time he would have slipped with ease . |
| 13 | At one time he used to spend winters with Lord Henry in a little house in Algiers , but now he no longer travelled outside England . |
| 14 | By that time he could have arranged to be called away . |
| 15 | The next thing he knew — by this time he would have the undivided attention of the entire bar — one of the Americans tore his fur hat off and screamed , ‘ OK , craphead , where is he ? ’ while one of the bobbies reached into the open back seat and pulled out an attaché case that he had to spend an hour telling them he had never seen before . |
| 16 | By this time he would not have been surprised if she had taken up the lecture and returned him a brief history of the next four centuries . |
| 17 | By this time he could smell the hydraulic fluid . |
| 18 | By this time he 'd let Josie 's body down and was checking through her pockets , which was a no-hope situation if ever there was one — women almost always carried their stuff around in handbags , and hers had to be back inside the building somewhere . |