Example sentences of "time he [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the fighting was apparently over by the time he attended the German emperor Conrad II 's imperial coronation in Rome in March 1027 , the most likely year for Holy River therefore seems to be 1026 , or conceivably , if operations were protracted , 1025 . |
| 2 | By the time he reached the front door there were flames at a fourth window and he could hear an ominous crackling sound from inside the house . |
| 3 | By the time he reached the distinctive Carolingian script of the seventeenth-century monument to Sir Edward Turner , Bart . |
| 4 | The last light played on the cliff wall of the Jabal Hamrin , but by the time he reached the steep-sloping ground he would be covered by darkness . |
| 5 | By the time he reached the low bridge on to the wharfs , he had decided to try and see Julie that afternoon . |
| 6 | By the time he reached the high moor , visibility was restricted by a swirling mass as he was exposed to the full force of the blizzard . |
| 7 | It was , with Rubberneck , a long habit , beat into him , each time he passed the tiny cross to kneel and genuflect . |
| 8 | Every time he drove the big Volvo along those crowded motorways he knew that one random police check , one brush with another car , one moment of inattention would have a blue-capped officer leaning in his window , wondering why he wore a wig and a false moustache . |
| 9 | In the nick of time he saw the yellow triangular patch on the shoulder . |
| 10 | At the same time he had the clearest image in his mind of the three of them : Fred , Daisy , and himself , and it was a spectacle of nothing but pleasure . |
| 11 | For the umpteenth time he checked the rear window . |
| 12 | This time he sent the three Ruritanians — Lauengram , Krafstein and young Rupert of Hentzau . |
| 13 | You know , I think the thing was that he was out of date , and by the time he wrote the second book he knew it . |
| 14 | It was at that time he wrote the first of a series of Scots novels which were to secure for him a place in the history of literature . |
| 15 | Every time he heard the sacred name pronounced by this strange voice , Henri thrilled with joy ; it seemed to him like a voice from beyond the grave , something mysterious and superhuman . |
| 16 | At the same time he keeps the real mountain intact , and Hinderstoisser , Kurz and company as historical markers . |
| 17 | He told Rufus to drive a bit more slowly and this time he spotted the six-foot-wide gap in the hedge with , on the right-hand side , almost hidden by cow parsley growing up and elderflowers hanging down , the wooden box on legs with its hinged lid into which Hilbert's-mail and newspapers and milk had been delivered . |
| 18 | Around the same time he composed the last of his Salzburg serenades — a brilliant D major piece using a concertante group of wind instruments rather than the usual violin , and incorporating a posthorn into one of the minuets — hence its nickname , the ‘ Posthorn ’ Serenade . |
| 19 | This time he did the unthinkable . |
| 20 | Wes 's greatest triumph was undoubtedly the time he removed the grating from the coal cellar outside Skeldale House . |
| 21 | He saw Madra fighting with her reins , hair wild ; then a face out of a nightmare lunged up at him , and for the second time he confronted the tusked maw of a grypesh . |
| 22 | At the same time he reflects the important belief that Ho Chi Minh was first and foremost a Vietnamese nationalist even though in his next sentence Moffat said ‘ He was also a communist and believed that communism offered the best hope for the Vietnamese people . ’ |
| 23 | Howard subscribed to the contemporary theory that the disease was transmitted by vapours ( it is , in fact , caught by man through the bites of body lice ) and well knew how much at risk he put himself each time he entered the noxious cells . |
| 24 | Blyth Tait says that the last time he won the top spot from Mary he only kept it for a week and is hoping to hang onto it for longer this time . |