Example sentences of "he at [det] time " in BNC.

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1 I was able to accommodate him at each time , you follow what I mean .
2 ‘ There were few people really close to him at that time . ’
3 To this day , Hardy , himself having achieved the double of classical and popular success as an actor , speaks of him at that time with unaffected adulation .
4 Stratford responded by invoking Magna Carta 's principle of trial by peers , which for him at that time meant trial by the lords in parliament .
5 Talking to Gavin Selerie in 1983 McGrath detailed some of the influences that came to work on him at that time .
6 A young Cornish shoemaker married at the time he was setting up on his own : " his wife 's immediate fortune was ten pounds — a sum to him at that time , of great importance " .
7 It does please me but the thing sometimes is , you do n't get results , I mean I just said to him at half time ‘ come on we 've got to be a bit stronger , ’ you know I thought we were playing quite well , but I thought we were letting them dominate us a little bit .
8 Her heart gave a little lurch as she thought about running into him at some time , which she was bound to do .
9 Another influence — arguably of even greater influence — burst upon him at this time , in the form of Irving Layton , the enfant terrible of Canadian poetry then a local school-teacher , who was invited to participate in a poetry workshop on the campus , and did so with great élan .
10 They were concerned to be caring and look after him at this time of tragedy , and he was just not really taking in what had happened .
11 He comes into close contact with both a teacher and other children of his own age and many of his future feelings about himself will result from what happens to him at this time .
12 Here John learned to appreciate the material things in life and in later years he allowed journalists to make the mistake of attributing John George 's wealth and position to him at this time .
13 Alec Guinness , who first met him at this time , considers that reading poetry on radio was the best thing he did .
14 To those who encountered him at this time , he seemed to grow more thick-set and muscular , endowed already with a public presence .
15 So impassive and peculiar had the Collector become , so obviously on the verge , everyone thought so ( you would have thought so yourself if you had seen him at this time ) , of giving up the ghost , that his face was scrutinized more closely than ever for any trace of remorse as the gorse bruiser was carried out .
16 We glimpse him at this time as the ‘ very accurate , industrious young man ’ commended by ‘ Governor ’ Thomas Pownall [ q.v . ] .
17 Whitelegge 's knowledge of epidemiology , and his experience of public health administration in industrial districts , recommended him at this time to the Home Office , which was being pressed to reorganize its industrial health work .
18 One of the more experienced printers remembers Laura asking him at this time to ‘ have a go ’ at producing a pattern she liked .
19 Who could it be calling on him at this time of night ?
20 It has to be emphasised that the committee worked always in the shadow of the law : Section 132 of the Public Health Act 1875 had said that any expenses incurred by a local authority in maintaining in a hospital a patient who is not a pauper , should be deemed to be a debt due from such patient to the local authority , and could be recovered from him at any time within six months after his discharge from the hospital .
21 ta dang-shi zai bei-jing gong-zuo ( lit. : ‘ he at that time in Peking work ’ , i.e. ‘ he was working in Peking ’ )
22 ‘ Did he at any time make advances to you ? ’
23 I do not believe those powers would be of use My Lords I er take the view that they would not have been abused by past Home Secretaries , no not by men like the late Tutor Reed or the Noble Lord Jenkins or the Noble Lord Callaghan , they would not be abused today by my Right Honourable Friend Mr Howard , I doubt if they would be abused by Mr Blair should he at some time become Home Secretary and I think we 're becoming slightly attached to an artificial argument that somehow or the other there is great respect for the local authorities , but which is not extended to the National Institutions of Government and to the Home Office and the Home Secretary .
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