Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is the implication of a very suggestive comment that he made at the time to Edgar Faure : " At certain periods there are some problems that have no solution . " |
| 2 | And he did n't forget the man he had beaten , and to whom he acknowledged America owed a debt : ‘ I want all of you to join with me tonight in expressing our gratitude to President Bush for his lifetime of public service , for the effort he made from the time he was a young soldier in the second world war , to helping to bring about an end to the Cold War , to our victory in the Gulf War , to the grace with which he conceded the results of this election tonight in the finest American tradition . ’ |
| 3 | He toyed with the time of Munich , the decisions and failures to decide that had made the world he lived in . |
| 4 | He agreed with The Times that imprisonment at the discretion of the creditor was a really powerful engine for extracting from the debtor any property he had concealed or done away with . |
| 5 | They were exotic , impoverished days for Nicholson and , above all , big experiences for the boy from Neptune who had by now left the protective custody of his sister/mother and was sharing an apartment with one of a group of friends who he met at the time and with whom he remained close when he became well known . |
| 6 | The local authority must therefore prove ( 1 ) that notice in accordance with section 10(1) was served on the person having control of the house to execute works , ( 2 ) that he failed within the time specified to execute them , ( 3 ) that the local authority have themselves carried out the works specified in the notice and ( 4 ) that they have incurred expenses in so doing . |
| 7 | Pressed very hard by Lauda in the final laps — ‘ leading a race was a brand-new experience for me , ’ he admitted at the time — he simply clung to his lead by driving as hard as he could . |
| 8 | As we have seen , it was not just the anthropology which he read at the time of composition which played its part in the great works of the early 1920s . |
| 9 | In fact , it was while he was up for the interview that he read in The Times the advertisement that had brought him to Burleigh : |
| 10 | As he noted at the time , new houses intended for single families were subdivided into tenements on their first letting , for the very poor simply could not afford to pay their landlords a realistic return on their investment . |
| 11 | The film was seen by many critics as Lester 's least satisfactory during that period , but it was probably far better than he believed at the time , while embroiled in battles with Frank . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't want to be a part of this , ’ he declared at the time . |
| 13 | Although Blake did n't know whether to believe the Doctor , he walked with the Time Lord , following the hideous apparitions through the streets of Whitechapel . |
| 14 | Speaking to The Art Newspaper , Louis van Tilburg , research curator at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam commented : ‘ On the basis of the photos we have been able to inspect we are confident that the six drawings do not fit within the oeuvre of Van Gogh and do not correspond in any way with the graphic style he developed at the time . |
| 15 | He thought at the time he was marrying the ‘ prefect woman ’ . |
| 16 | Why had n't he told me what he thought at the time ? |
| 17 | But I know what he saw at the time — three mere candle-flames and three mere shadows . |
| 18 | He begins with the mind as ‘ white paper ’ ( following Locke ) , describes ‘ external sensible objects ’ , then records — as , for example , in the ‘ sense of unknown modes of being ’ after the boat-stealing incident — what he felt at the time , and then adds a later ‘ reflection ’ or meditation upon the event from the point of view of the author writing in 1798–1805 . |
| 19 | Cowdrey recalled how he felt at the time . |
| 20 | But skipper Dave Watson revealed : ‘ Tony was disappointed at being dropped and he said what he felt at the time . |
| 21 | He looked for the time . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He said at the time , ‘ A dancer 's time is short . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . ’ |