Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] time he [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During that time he has been pushing hard to make up any lost ground . |
| 2 | During this time he falls completely under its spell . |
| 3 | During this time he becomes all the world to her , and he is grateful but unaware of her affection . |
| 4 | During this time he does not feed , but relies on his body fat , accumulated during the period of good summer feeding — this prolonged fast may later prove very costly . |
| 5 | For some time he struggles to explain this feeling , and eventually he realises that the taste is of course exactly the taste which he enjoyed as a small boy when his Aunt Léonie gave him a madeline dipped in an infusion . |
| 6 | St Augustine did not explain how the mind could be an accurate chronometer for the timing of external events , but as the pioneer of the study of psychological time he stands in the front rank of those who have contributed to the understanding of our sense of time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In that time he has sat through more than 10,000 films.But he confesses that he would n't be seen dead in a cinema . |
| 9 | In that time he has said 27 funeral masses for gang members who had died at gunpoint . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In that time he has put unemployment up by nearly 1 million , so he can offer us no lectures on the subject of unemployment . |
| 12 | The craft has been his hobby for the past years , and in that time he has seen it grow immensely in popularity . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He was lucky not to get a prison sentence and claims that since that time he has remained sober . |
| 15 | I do n't know whether Mr Rocke fell in love with the Yorkshire moors on a visit to Wakefield for that exhibition ; but for most of the years since that time he has lived and worked in Yorkshire as senior art adviser to the West Riding County Council . |
| 16 | At this time he appears to be a rich chocolate brown and this enhances the orange edging to the dorsal and anal fins yet further . |
| 17 | Indeed , when a male is following a female at this time he seems to produce this ‘ chuntering ’ sound almost continuously . |