Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The poor astronaut who falls into a black hole will still come to a sticky end ; only if he lived in imaginary time would he encounter no singularities . |
| 2 | ‘ You have the money ? ’ he asked after some time . |
| 3 | When he moved at this time to larger premises at no. 5 Charing Cross , his maps were reputed the finest being engraved anywhere in the world . |
| 4 | Thirty years afterwards Charles still felt deeply the humiliation he suffered at this time ; but unlike some little princes in similar situations , he lived , politically as well as literally , to fight another day . |
| 5 | Among places he surveyed at this time were the park of Auckland Castle and Lanchester Common . |
| 6 | He has never forgotten the lessons he learnt at that time . |
| 7 | However , Nietzsche 's first editors ( 1895 ) , then his sister ( 1897 ) , and subsequently the world at large have asserted that the scale of this last revision was substantial and , specifically-that of the book 's eventual twenty-five sections , he added at this time the final six ( 20–25 ) , which are partly ( though not , as is often said , largely ) concerned with Wagner . " |
| 8 | He added at this time that the further information was that the occupants of the flat at we were frightened of I also . |
| 9 | Was genuine he added at this time that er the further information was that the occupants of the flat at were frightened of . |
| 10 | After bodyguard work he turned to full time military journalism in 1985 ; and has been a frequent and major contributor to the French magazine RAIDS . |
| 11 | But I think that by the end of his career , Mario knew that he belonged to another time and another place . |
| 12 | When Queen Elizabeth , on a state visit to Germany in May 1965 , arrived in Stuttgart for a formal lunch , John took care over his clothes but either forgot or did not think it necessary to find a pair of socks less obtrusive than the bright reds or blues he favoured at that time . |
| 13 | He talked for some time about a poet called Rimbo . |
| 14 | But his philosophy that when your ‘ time 's up your time 's up ’ saw him through and he 's back to tell the tale , though sadly he chose not to include the pictures he took at that time . |
| 15 | With the benefit of a later viewpoint , aided not least by the opportunity to reflect on Bolinger 's own work , we would suggest that , in most cases , other answers are more appropriate than the ones which he offered at that time ( nevertheless , we return to this article more than once in the chapters which follow ) . |
| 16 | He listened for some time before judging it safe to tiptoe downstairs . |
| 17 | One of the most attractive designs that he did at this time was for Kay Dick 's novel , An Affair of Love ( 1953 ) . |
| 18 | Sara would always remember gratefully the help he gave at that time ‘ to render a miserable cottage , an abode of comparative comfort ’ . |
| 19 | The Oxford lectures which he gave at this time were eventually to be published as The Discarded Image , perhaps the most completely satisfying and impressive book he ever published . |
| 20 | He had for some time , in the instinctive darkness of his mind in which so many heterogeneous problems were circulating , been wondering how , in what undramatic , as it were casual , not yet significant context he might utter them . |
| 21 | R. A. Butler , one of the Conservative Party 's chief spokesmen on foreign affairs , stated in the House of Commons on 27 February 1947 that he had for some time regarded Korea ‘ as perhaps the greatest danger spot for peace in the Far East ’ . |
| 22 | He had been able to join in mathematical discussion with the English he had at that time . |
| 23 | By taking my hand and giving signs , he had at one time wanted me to come to his house — an invitation no doubt to show his friendship . |
| 24 | I believe he had at one time worked with Cizek and he certainly knew of Tagore 's work and writing . |
| 25 | He had at one time used the property as a guest house and a number of people , who had at one time or another resided in the guest house , had become friends of his . |
| 26 | There was Miss Sharon Hughes with whom the deceased had been very friendly and who , it is said , he had at one time wanted to marry . |
| 27 | He had at one time suspected his mother of doing precisely this . |
| 28 | Mr Hewitt , dying of cancer in hospital , said to Mrs Sen — his close friend for thirty years , with whom he had at one time cohabited — " The house is yours , Margaret . |
| 29 | These days he felt happier than he had at any time in his life . |
| 30 | Bigwig was racing back across the field , looking more agitated than he had at any time since the encounter with Captain Holly . |