Example sentences of "he [vb past] at [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | When he moved at this time to larger premises at no. 5 Charing Cross , his maps were reputed the finest being engraved anywhere in the world . |
2 | Thirty years afterwards Charles still felt deeply the humiliation he suffered at this time ; but unlike some little princes in similar situations , he lived , politically as well as literally , to fight another day . |
3 | Among places he surveyed at this time were the park of Auckland Castle and Lanchester Common . |
4 | He has never forgotten the lessons he learnt at that time . |
5 | However , Nietzsche 's first editors ( 1895 ) , then his sister ( 1897 ) , and subsequently the world at large have asserted that the scale of this last revision was substantial and , specifically-that of the book 's eventual twenty-five sections , he added at this time the final six ( 20–25 ) , which are partly ( though not , as is often said , largely ) concerned with Wagner . " |
6 | He added at this time that the further information was that the occupants of the flat at we were frightened of I also . |
7 | Was genuine he added at this time that er the further information was that the occupants of the flat at were frightened of . |
8 | When Queen Elizabeth , on a state visit to Germany in May 1965 , arrived in Stuttgart for a formal lunch , John took care over his clothes but either forgot or did not think it necessary to find a pair of socks less obtrusive than the bright reds or blues he favoured at that time . |
9 | But his philosophy that when your ‘ time 's up your time 's up ’ saw him through and he 's back to tell the tale , though sadly he chose not to include the pictures he took at that time . |
10 | With the benefit of a later viewpoint , aided not least by the opportunity to reflect on Bolinger 's own work , we would suggest that , in most cases , other answers are more appropriate than the ones which he offered at that time ( nevertheless , we return to this article more than once in the chapters which follow ) . |
11 | One of the most attractive designs that he did at this time was for Kay Dick 's novel , An Affair of Love ( 1953 ) . |
12 | Sara would always remember gratefully the help he gave at that time ‘ to render a miserable cottage , an abode of comparative comfort ’ . |
13 | The Oxford lectures which he gave at this time were eventually to be published as The Discarded Image , perhaps the most completely satisfying and impressive book he ever published . |
14 | He had been able to join in mathematical discussion with the English he had at that time . |
15 | By taking my hand and giving signs , he had at one time wanted me to come to his house — an invitation no doubt to show his friendship . |
16 | I believe he had at one time worked with Cizek and he certainly knew of Tagore 's work and writing . |
17 | He had at one time used the property as a guest house and a number of people , who had at one time or another resided in the guest house , had become friends of his . |
18 | There was Miss Sharon Hughes with whom the deceased had been very friendly and who , it is said , he had at one time wanted to marry . |
19 | He had at one time suspected his mother of doing precisely this . |
20 | Mr Hewitt , dying of cancer in hospital , said to Mrs Sen — his close friend for thirty years , with whom he had at one time cohabited — " The house is yours , Margaret . |
21 | These days he felt happier than he had at any time in his life . |
22 | Bigwig was racing back across the field , looking more agitated than he had at any time since the encounter with Captain Holly . |
23 | A little over an hour later , Harry felt more in control of events than he had at any time since Heather 's disappearance . |
24 | He had always considered Sir John a portly , self-indulgent toper , but at this moment the coroner seemed more at ease , sword and dagger in his hands , fighting for his life , than he had at any time since they had met . |
25 | ‘ 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 . |
26 | But poetry and music were not the only things that he wrote at this time . |
27 | Two other books which he wrote at this time were to cause him serious trouble . |
28 | Overcome , perhaps , he left at half time . |
29 | 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 . |