Example sentences of "at [adj] time he [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 With the coming of civilisation and the beginning of this , the third of the Three Periods into which the reader is reminded the explanation of the Created God is divided , man was on the threshold of the era of his greatest testing , even though at that time he may not have been aware of it .
2 At that time he would have been like many thousand of other youngsters , the sweepings of the hungry ‘ forties .
3 At that time he will establish God 's kingdom for all to see .
4 Lane accepted it without comment , although at another time he might have pressed for more of an answer ; he was n't a man who liked to be kept in the dark .
5 It is just conceivable , however that , even at this time he may have started to indulge in a very simple form of god worship entirely on his own as a single individual , group worship following much later .
6 Erm and then he 's talking , he 's going on to education which er obviously at this time he would think is very important erm because that 's how he would start the revolution , you know , i in the first place .
7 At some time he may also have sent an expedition against Normandy which was defeated , and his Helmet coin type , perhaps current from 1003 to 1009 , depicts him in armour ; according to the surviving verse on him by the Icelandic poet Gunnlaug Serpent 's Tongue , the army feared Æthel-red no less than God , and N.P. Brooks has shown that he increased the military burdens on his people by requiring more of his soldiers to wear helmets and byrnies .
8 But he was taking far too many punches which at one time he would have slipped with ease .
9 At one time he used to spend winters with Lord Henry in a little house in Algiers , but now he no longer travelled outside England .
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