Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | He looked for the time . |
| 32 | He ‘ produced his bell and rang it , stating that that was what he did at the time ’ , but the magistrate told him ‘ that he must not think that everyone had to scamper out of the way upon hearing the sound of his bell ’ . |
| 33 | And the whole book is really about er the Versailles conference in a way , is n't it , and about why he behaved the way he did at the time . |
| 34 | Great praise has been given to Mr. Baker , the United States Secretary of State , for arranging that conference and so fulfilling the commitment that he gave at the time of the Gulf war , when he said that he and President Bush would do all that they could to bring the parties to the negotiating table . |
| 35 | There is no doubt that in The Family Reunion he was attempting that re-integration of religious and secular drama which he discussed at the time he was working on the play . |
| 36 | Ken Wolstenholme was never really lost to football after he left the Beeb and he commentated for a time on ITV 's Tyne Tees station and recently worked for Tottenham 's Clubcall line . |
| 37 | With direct reference to the ‘ Jewish Question ’ , and in response to a ‘ demand ’ for more radical action which he had read in a newspaper , Hitler made clear that he had at the time to proceed tactically and in stages , but that his strategy was to manoeuvre his enemy into a corner before destroying him completely . |
| 38 | Michael 's idol was Buster Keaton , and he had at the time studied Keaton more than I had , and said that he had never used a double . |
| 39 | Despite the terror which as a result of his ruthlessness , cruelty and ungovernable rages his name evoked , he had by the time of the British invasion lost effective control of his country except around his mountain fortress of Magdala . |
| 40 | Hahnemann therefore had to move frequently as restrictions on his practice were imposed in one town after another , but despite this he lectured for a time on homoeopathy in the University of Leipzig and he had a large band of influential patrons and supporters as well as a number of able and gifted pupils . |
| 41 | He said at no time was Paul Jones ever hit with a cane or whip , at no time was he tied upside down and hit , he was never forced to get up early to feed the animals , or ill-treated in any way whatsoever . |
| 42 | He said at the time , ‘ A dancer 's time is short . |
| 43 | ‘ The most disturbing feature of the underground repository is not simply that an accident might occur , ’ he said at the time , ‘ but that if it did , we might never know until its consequences reached the surface — maybe decades later . ’ |
| 44 | ‘ I can see no reason why I should n't keep my job because I have not committed any offence under military law , ’ he said at the time . |
| 45 | ‘ The recession gave us a window of opportunity , ’ he said at the time . |
| 46 | ‘ It was n't the litigation we would lose that was the problem , ’ he said at the time . |
| 47 | ‘ We realised very early on that there was something very wrong with Helen , ’ he said at the time . |
| 48 | he said at the time that as soon as his international career was over that he could go back to Blackheath and see them right . |
| 49 | ‘ I usually grow it like a sheepdog to keep me warm in winter , ’ he said at the time . |
| 50 | ‘ I do n't like the way they want to make the film , ’ he said at the time . |
| 51 | ‘ She 'll start off , ’ he said at the time , ‘ with an appealing look like this [ his eyes open wide and his jaw drops ] and you can see her thinking : ‘ No , I did that yesterday . |
| 52 | ‘ I have a little prayer I say three times before I come down , ’ he said at the time . |
| 53 | As he said at the time : ‘ I 've never been seen naked in any bed , never . |
| 54 | He said after a time , ‘ She — Maud — runs a Women 's Resource Centre in Lincoln . |
| 55 | " There is a problem , " he said after a time . |
| 56 | " The fighting was very bad , " he said after a time . |
| 57 | ‘ She 's not very forthcoming always about what 's going on at the back of her mind , ’ he said after a time in a soft voice to Jo-Ann , ‘ but I can generally tell something about it from the way she moves her toes . |
| 58 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ he said after a time , struggling to get himself upright in his chair . |
| 59 | He said by the time of the next election it would no longer be possible to cancel Trident . |
| 60 | I du n no , they get in on a Friday night he said by the time we 've cashed up , when I got there they 'd got this round coffee table in the middle of the room similar to that brass one what I 'm but it 's an old tin thing it is sitting in the middle of the room there was a little bag of money there a little bag of money there and a bag of money there that 's Geoff 's money that 's petrol money that 's five hundred pound . |