Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first minister he saw after taking in the new facts was Eden , in many ways his favourite at the time . |
| 2 | A psychiatrist called in for the defence , Dr Nicholas Rice , told Exeter Crown Court he believed Mr Harris to be so abnormal his responsibility at the time of the stabbing was diminished . |
| 3 | November 14 , 1968 A writ and statement of claim was issued claiming damages against Mr Sugden only , alleging that his wife was driving as his agent at the time of the accident . |
| 4 | He was signing an autograph for his killer at the time . |
| 5 | With the 1977 renegotiation , Branson argued , a new royalty had been set which Oldfield and his lawyer at the time had considered fair . |
| 6 | Partly he 'd be in because he was really into leather himself and partly he was there because his girlfriend of the time , Nora — who now lives with Johnny Rotten — was in the shop just about every day . |
| 7 | Mr Palmer told the court that Mr Browning admitted being in his car at the time of the killing . |
| 8 | The book helped him and satisfied his mind for the time . |
| 9 | We simply were n't aware of what was going through his mind at the time . ’ |
| 10 | Now , he does n't say anything about penis envy in , in putting that forward and I do n't know whether penis envy was in his mind at the time he wrote those words and even if I asked him today , he probably would n't admit it . |
| 11 | There was a curious connection now in his mind between the time that Sergeant Barry Lawrence had knocked him silly in the pub and this new blurring of his mind . |
| 12 | Prominent in his thinking at the time was Wilhelm Reich , the advocate of the practice of free love , which he believed would bring all power systems crashing to the ground . |
| 13 | Mrs Kennerley sent a copy of the letter to his campaign team as proof of his patriotism at the time . |
| 14 | The treatment of Abdulkerim by Katib Celebi and his followers is consistent ( and interesting ) in so far as they rightly , one believes , place his Muftilik in the time of Mehmed II , in accordance with the and as opposed to the view of the unmodified traditional account ; but on the assumption that the available texts of Katib Celebi and Hezarfen are accurate , the writers connected with the Katib Celebi view appear to differ amongst themselves about the nature and timing of his Muftilik , possibly because Katib Celebi " s list is particularly cryptic and , at first sight , confused at this point . |
| 15 | Following India 's nine wicket defeat in Port Elizabeth , Gavaskar slated Azharuddin 's team in his column in the Times of India . |
| 16 | Restoration gossip that Norton lived at Richmond Palace , acquired at a cheap rate after the king 's execution , is puzzling ; his home at the time was actually Oatlands Park , near Weybridge , Surrey , and at his death his widow claimed to be penniless . |
| 17 | He visited the home of Simon Peter , was supported by well-to-do people and never encouraged Zacchaeus to dispose of the whole of his wealth at the time when he returned money to those he had cheated . |
| 18 | A milkman who set up a round in competition with his old dairy firm has won a legal battle to continue his business for the time being . |
| 19 | Leaving aside the issue of his sincerity at the time , his statement has lived on to become a condemnation of his fellow Republican Ronald Reagan , who is guilty of the most alarming lapse of self-restraint in the history of American environmental management . |
| 20 | His journal of the time notes that he found the King 's many wives very charming to look at . |
| 21 | ( 4 ) ( a ) Where a member of a recognised body dies the recognised body shall ensure that any shares registered in his name at the time of his death are within twelve months of his death registered in the name of a solicitor or a recognised body or ( where permitted by paragraph ( 2 ) ( a ) ( i ) of this Rule ) a registered foreign lawyer or ( where the recognised body is a company limited by shares ) are acquired by the recognised body itself . |
| 22 | ( 4 ) ( a ) Where a member of a recognised body dies the recognised body shall ensure that any shares registered in his name at the time of his death are within twelve months of his death registered in the name of a solicitor or a recognised body or ( where permitted by paragraph ( 2 ) ( a ) ( i ) of this Rule ) a registered foreign lawyer or ( where the recognised body is a company limited by shares ) are acquired by the recognised body itself . |
| 23 | Elgar was n't allowed a dog by his wife at the time and he sort of adopted Dan and was fascinated by him . |
| 24 | It was as though an extraordinary story — a great mythology , with half-forgotten legends , languages and lore — had been unfolding in his head from the time he began to think ; and his appreciation of the Old Literature was at the deepest level imaginative and creative . |
| 25 | Solti 's conducting is simply too unstable and volatile to give much satisfaction , showing his inexperience at the time in Wagner ( how sad Knappertsbusch was n't given the assignment ) . |
| 26 | Nothing could shake the steadiness of such men as Hugh Waterton or John Norbury , who had been in his service from the time when he had been merely Henry of Bolingbroke , earl of Derby , and even that title borrowed by courtesy from his father . |
| 27 | From 1644 he was a governor of St Bartholomew 's Hospital , his landlord at the time of his death , and he played an active part in rebuilding its property . |
| 28 | For the present we may note that every person is considered to start life with a ‘ domicile or origin ’ , which will be , as a rule , the domicile of his father at the time of his birth ; and that this domicile of origin continues until it is shown that some other domicile has been acquired , and is restored whenever an acquired domicile is lost without the acquisition of another . |
| 29 | He did n't tell his father at the time , but he longed to help his parents financially with his younger brother 's and sister 's education . |
| 30 | How well he is able to cope with the situation will depend partly on his age at the time and partly on how carefully the adults around him handle the situation . |