Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | He had by this time divorced his first wife . |
| 32 | He had by this time been child factory worker , apprentice framework knitter and short-term seaman , so his reaction is significant . |
| 33 | ‘ My mates and I came up here one day when there was no English football , Christmas Eve I think , and I just got hooked , ’ he said at half time . |
| 34 | But poetry and music were not the only things that he wrote at this time . |
| 35 | Two other books which he wrote at this time were to cause him serious trouble . |
| 36 | In another passage our final text reads ‘ His words were as if meant for himself , but he spoke them aloud , and he continued for some time to look at his sister like a man perplexed . ’ |
| 37 | The magazine text brings in the paradox of public and yet as if private utterance : ‘ His words were as if spoken to himself , but he spoke them aloud , and he continued for some time to look at his sister like a man perplexed . ’ |
| 38 | Overcome , perhaps , he left at half time . |
| 39 | What makes Gatsby 's action even more splendid is that he knows by this time that Daisy is not going to leave her husband for him . |
| 40 | And er he said no , it 'll be the milk , it 's the milkman , he comes at this time . |
| 41 | But — and it 's this sort of complication that makes him I think such a remarkable man — although that did happen then , for the next ten , twelve years , he was entirely preoccupied , almost entirely preoccupied with something else , and this something else erm originates from the other revolution that he underwent at this time , a revolution that occurred after a visit to an international mathematical congress in Paris , where he met the Italian mathematician Peano . |