Example sentences of "the [adj] time [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My husband was a very good poet , as you know , but he was unlucky , one of those people who are always in the wrong place at the wrong time in his career . |
| 2 | Through astrology one could be forewarned of the exact time of his coming . |
| 3 | Later in life he looked back upon the married time of his professorship at Durham as an idyll ; the paradisal years of his life . |
| 4 | On the appointed time for his fourth , however , his young instructor failed to turn up . |
| 5 | Unfortunately for the historian , it was the only time in his life when he kept a diary . |
| 6 | It was the verbal savagery of his pre-war outbursts in the streets of Shoreditch and Pimlico that made him a public danger for the only time in his life . |
| 7 | At the only time in his life when he would have liked to he was so crushed by doubt and diffidence that he kept his eyes scrupulously trained upon the ground , or the table in front of him , or the wall behind the shoulder of the person concerned . |
| 8 | First , for the only time in his Gospel , he calls them apostles . |
| 9 | For the only time in his career ( with the arguable exception of the months between May 1945 and January 1946 ) de Gaulle was not confronted by an all-consuming national or international crisis . |