Example sentences of "time he [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That time he played a yellow cab driver and got run over by his own cab . |
| 2 | Maybe he was beginning to feel sorry for me , because this time he chose a tall slim rosebush . |
| 3 | This time he took a six on it . |
| 4 | Throughout this time he took a keen personal interest in the education of young engineers , especially in the Horwich Mechanics ' Institute , which he founded in 1888 . |
| 5 | King even promised to lobby on their behalf for a new jetty to be built instead off Hinkley Point itself — the only time he made a strong stand against any aspect of the Hinkley C project . |
| 6 | And yet he conquered these fears , so that in the fullness of time he became a spirited steeplechaser and a keen rider to hounds . |
| 7 | By this time he had a firm place in baronial society . |
| 8 | Isaac Abendana ‘ having lighted his Pipe , fell down dead ’ 17 July 1699 while visiting his friend Arthur Charlett [ q.v. ] , master of University College , and a merchant Jew passing through the town conveyed the body to London for burial , putting an end to a thirty-seven-year Oxbridge career during which time he had a virtual monopoly on Hebrew studies there . |
| 9 | From Desmond Morton 's point of view , Edward struck gold the first time he had a proper conversation with Frank Foley . |
| 10 | in April 1729 , by which time he had a high reputation , particularly as a maker of surveying instruments , being known especially for his accurate division of scales . |
| 11 | For a time he adopted a Stoical attitude to outface suffering , but this only brought on middle age prematurely . |
| 12 | At the same time he produced a wide range of political , cultural and literary articles for publication in journals such as Europe , Monde , Commune , La Litterature internationale , Vendredi , Clarte and Cahiers du bolchevisme , he was co-scriptwriter of a film Visages de In France ( 1937 ) , and he contributed regularly in his capacity as foreign-affairs correspondent for L'Humanite between 1935 and 1937 , and Ce Soir between 1937 and 1939 . |
| 13 | But at the same time he composed a Third Concerto which he never played or published . |
| 14 | At the same time he unveiled a radical economic programme which called for the rapid transition to a market economy , and the " liquidation of inertia and conservatism " in the state bureaucracy . |
| 15 | For a time he showed a certain curiosity about Liszt and something of the same kind about Wagner . |
| 16 | ‘ Still , it 's about time he learned a few home truths , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 17 | Last time he won a beautiful . |
| 18 | Up to this moment he has always behaved as spontaneously as an animal , surrendering to appetite and vomiting ; now for the first time he makes a considered choice . |