Example sentences of "and [prep] [adj] time he " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He had spent less than an hour in the Dragon and during that time he had succeeded in needling at least four men . |
| 2 | It took Maidstone four hours to decide what to do and during that time he drank only coffee . |
| 3 | By the time Johnny moved back to Brighton he had spent over 20 years at Selhurst Park and during that time he had made an invaluable contribution to Palace 's progress both on and off the field , for which he will long be remembered with gratitude . |
| 4 | He had spent nearly all of his forty-eight years in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist , and during that time he had witnessed literally thousands of encounters with people from the Other Side . |
| 5 | And during this time he must have trodden pretty much every footpath there . |
| 6 | In 1579 , he was appointed Justice of the Peace for Kent and during this time he became associated with Sir John Leveson of Whornes Place who later became his close friend . |
| 7 | Lambarde continued living at the Palace until 1598 and during this time he maintained and kept in repair the buildings . |
| 8 | It 's now ten years since he set up Some Bizzare , and in that time he has enticed Matt Johnson , You 've Got Foetus On Your Breath , Psychic TV , Einstuerzende Neubauten and Berlin-born cabaret singer Anges Bernelle into his entourage . |
| 9 | It is nineteen months since Richard Ryder was appointed Government Chief Whip and in that time he has risen to become John Major 's right-hand man . |
| 10 | The craft has been his hobby for the past years , and in that time he has seen it grow immensely in popularity . |
| 11 | But he has been the Labour Party 's chosen candidate for almost two years and in that time he has worked hard to build up a high profile , assiduously interpreting official figures on unemployment , training and hospital waiting lists as well as taking on directors of newly-privatised monopolies . |
| 12 | Besides his political activities Mr. Thomas also found time for lecturing on literary , philosophical and ethical subjects in many parts of the country , and at one time he lectured almost every Sunday in the Town Hall for the Battersea Ethical Society . |
| 13 | This has created severe financial problems and at one time he was heavily in debt to the bank . |
| 14 | He was a director of public companies , the proprietor and editor of a journal , gas inspector and expert witness , and at one time he owned a gold mine ; he did his work in a laboratory of his own … |
| 15 | And at that time he wrote in a letter , ‘ In these concerts I could n't make enough slowings and accelerations . ’ |
| 16 | I 've got one brother , but he was younger than me and at that time he were going to school anyway . |
| 17 | You see so a branch of the er London paper and at that time he was editor of the paper , they came up together , found it here . |
| 18 | There was a certain amount of movement and noise and at that time he was unconscious . ’ |
| 19 | They managed to send Richard to school and at some time he attracted the notice of the lawyer-priest Thomas de Nevill , later Archdeacon of Durham , who gave him a grant to study at Oxford when he was about thirteen or fourteen years old . |
| 20 | Even this demanding job left energy for much else , and at this time he began to organise art exhibitions , building on his own strong interest in the visual arts which had been fired by visits to Florence and Venice and by the mammoth Van Gogh show in the 1950s , and which led early to his abiding love of the Italian Renaissance giants and of such British artists as Prunella Clough , Keith Vaughan and RobertMedley . |
| 21 | The job search took him seven years , and by that time he was ripe for retirement . |
| 22 | Viktor was twelve when the war ended and by that time he had forgotten how to cry . |
| 23 | When steel began to supersede iron in the 1880s he developed the Brymbo ironworks into the largest steelworks in north Wales , and by that time he had also acquired a number of important collieries and other industrial concerns . |
| 24 | From 1337 onwards Ramsey was also in charge at St Stephen 's chapel , and by this time he was a wealthy man . |