Example sentences of "his [noun] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the Echo can reveal that he has already opened legal proceedings against Saunders and Liverpool FC , as his employers at the time . |
| 2 | The first minister he saw after taking in the new facts was Eden , in many ways his favourite at the time . |
| 3 | WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT ! he 's liable to lose half his teeth by the time he 's 40 because of Mouth Acid |
| 4 | A psychiatrist called in for the defence , Dr Nicholas Rice , told Exeter Crown Court he believed Mr Harris to be so abnormal his responsibility at the time of the stabbing was diminished . |
| 5 | November 14 , 1968 A writ and statement of claim was issued claiming damages against Mr Sugden only , alleging that his wife was driving as his agent at the time of the accident . |
| 6 | He was signing an autograph for his killer at the time . |
| 7 | Finniston pauses for an ironical chuckle as he recollects the weight of responsibility placed upon his shoulders at the time . |
| 8 | And so it was that he gained his passport to that respectability which lay so easily on his shoulders by the time his picture was painted : he would be apprenticed . |
| 9 | My father still had full use of both his legs at the time , and had to use them to run up and down from kitchen or lounge to the bedroom and back when Agnes rang the little bells sewn into the bell-bottoms of her jeans , which lay draped over a chair by the side of the bed . |
| 10 | With the 1977 renegotiation , Branson argued , a new royalty had been set which Oldfield and his lawyer at the time had considered fair . |
| 11 | Partly he 'd be in because he was really into leather himself and partly he was there because his girlfriend of the time , Nora — who now lives with Johnny Rotten — was in the shop just about every day . |
| 12 | Mr Palmer told the court that Mr Browning admitted being in his car at the time of the killing . |
| 13 | He chuckled to himself as he drove , and had forgotten his worries by the time he had hauled two armfuls of grocery supplies up to his apartment . |
| 14 | The book helped him and satisfied his mind for the time . |
| 15 | We simply were n't aware of what was going through his mind at the time . ’ |
| 16 | Now , he does n't say anything about penis envy in , in putting that forward and I do n't know whether penis envy was in his mind at the time he wrote those words and even if I asked him today , he probably would n't admit it . |
| 17 | There was a curious connection now in his mind between the time that Sergeant Barry Lawrence had knocked him silly in the pub and this new blurring of his mind . |
| 18 | Prominent in his thinking at the time was Wilhelm Reich , the advocate of the practice of free love , which he believed would bring all power systems crashing to the ground . |
| 19 | In fact he had about eighteen birds on his books at the time , ranging in age from two weeks upwards , and he was hand-rearing them . |
| 20 | Mrs Kennerley sent a copy of the letter to his campaign team as proof of his patriotism at the time . |
| 21 | The treatment of Abdulkerim by Katib Celebi and his followers is consistent ( and interesting ) in so far as they rightly , one believes , place his Muftilik in the time of Mehmed II , in accordance with the and as opposed to the view of the unmodified traditional account ; but on the assumption that the available texts of Katib Celebi and Hezarfen are accurate , the writers connected with the Katib Celebi view appear to differ amongst themselves about the nature and timing of his Muftilik , possibly because Katib Celebi " s list is particularly cryptic and , at first sight , confused at this point . |
| 22 | Following India 's nine wicket defeat in Port Elizabeth , Gavaskar slated Azharuddin 's team in his column in the Times of India . |
| 23 | Restoration gossip that Norton lived at Richmond Palace , acquired at a cheap rate after the king 's execution , is puzzling ; his home at the time was actually Oatlands Park , near Weybridge , Surrey , and at his death his widow claimed to be penniless . |
| 24 | He visited the home of Simon Peter , was supported by well-to-do people and never encouraged Zacchaeus to dispose of the whole of his wealth at the time when he returned money to those he had cheated . |
| 25 | At their last meeting a line had been reached , and despite the urgings of his senses at the time , he was not sure that they wanted to cross it . |
| 26 | A milkman who set up a round in competition with his old dairy firm has won a legal battle to continue his business for the time being . |
| 27 | On the first world tour in 1872–3 Thomas Cook filed several reports of his travels to The Times in a series called ‘ Letters from the Sea and from Foreign Lands ’ . |
| 28 | Contracts for necessaries include contracts for such goods , lodging , and instruction as are reasonably necessary for the infant , having regard to his station in life and his needs at the time of the contract . |
| 29 | Leaving aside the issue of his sincerity at the time , his statement has lived on to become a condemnation of his fellow Republican Ronald Reagan , who is guilty of the most alarming lapse of self-restraint in the history of American environmental management . |
| 30 | His journal of the time notes that he found the King 's many wives very charming to look at . |