Example sentences of "time he [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a director of public companies , the proprietor and editor of a journal , gas inspector and expert witness , and at one time he owned a gold mine ; he did his work in a laboratory of his own … |
| 2 | For the first time he sounded a boy . |
| 3 | It was almost a habit with Pascoe : every time he passed the phone he called Sophie ; and every time he got a machine with a message . |
| 4 | Another time he painted a scene of the angel appearing to the shepherds to tell them of the Nativity . |
| 5 | ‘ Have you any notion who might have killed him , Inspector ? ’ said the Bishop , clearly feeling that , if matters were getting down to fundamentals , it was time he played a part . |
| 6 | ULSTER 'S Darren Clarke hopes to be free of a wrist injury by the time he catches a flight for France tomorrow . |
| 7 | The first time I asked he engaged his brain , the second time he wavered a bit as if understanding he should be doing something , though not what he should be doing , and the third time he translated it successfully . |
| 8 | At this time he developed a feeling for courses and put in for every course in sight . |
| 9 | Another time he passed a copse of exposed trees that had been battered by the prevailing wind for so long that the trees were permanently bent over . |
| 10 | At least by the time he received a freak , soccer-kickabout leg injury last month that forced him to miss the Test against South Africa , he had enjoyed a double-try England debut against Canada . |
| 11 | But he sells out every time he plays a show in Merseyside . |
| 12 | Every time he saw a girl he liked . |
| 13 | For the first time he saw a nervousness from her , the hesitation of the little girl lost . |
| 14 | Former New Seekers singer Lyn Paul was linked with him briefly and , in a ‘ kiss- and tell ’ interview , said , ‘ I think every time he took a girl out he compared her with his former wife , Gabrielle , and none of them came up to scratch . ’ |
| 15 | When he did n't like the bedroom furniture in his penthouse suite at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami he ordered his bodyguards to throw the offending furniture out , according to his former bodyguard Andy Celentano , who said , ‘ One time he took a dislike to the piano . |
| 16 | One symptom of the pope 's embarrassment is that for the first and last time he made a concession to Anselm on the subject of the primacy of Canterbury , which we must deal with later . |
| 17 | The teacher , with a white-coated scientist standing by him , was then instructed to teach the learner a series of linked words , and to punish him by delivering a shock every time he made a mistake . |
| 18 | At the time he made a report to the then Keeper of the Indian Section , Robert Skelton , who passed it on to the Indian authorities . |
| 19 | Chapman himself was not averse to playing a trick or two on his lively player , like the time he arranged a winter ‘ cruise ’ for him . |
| 20 | And this time he had a knife . |
| 21 | What matters is that the doctors should consider whether at that time he had a capacity which was commensurate with the gravity of the decision which he purported to make . |
| 22 | Every time he had a tantrum she put a tick in the appropriate square . |
| 23 | Turning reality on its head is now the objective of a national coach who is made to understand it is far from an ideal world every time he picks a Scotland squad . |
| 24 | This time he imitates a man hanging from a tree , which Barat and Haimet take for the ghost of their hanged father , drop their booty and flee . |
| 25 | He still hoped for a settlement , but each time he sent a communication to Bidault it was unaccountably held up by d'Argenlieu . |
| 26 | Every time he heard a knock at the door , my little boy used to hide under the bed . |
| 27 | This time he heard a click and knew instantly what it was . |
| 28 | But at the same time he deserves a pat on the back because of some of the saves he had to make . |
| 29 | The district officer in India acted on this responsibility every time he filed a report . |
| 30 | At the time he commanded a contingent of Katangese levies and about twenty white mercenaries at Watsa . |