Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He demurred , he asked for time to think , to consult his wife , to put the proposal to his daughter . |
| 2 | He asked for time to consider , but this was brushed aside and Nu , willy-nilly , became MP for Mergui , a place he had never previously visited . |
| 3 | He recovered in time to lead his side in the World Cup . |
| 4 | He recovered in time to join , as a colonel , the staff of 400 that A. J. Balfour ( later first Earl of Balfour ) took to the Paris peace conference , where he watched politicians disputing over Levantine problems . |
| 5 | Yes he was free , he would try to explain , free in body but not in spirit , and he found in time that really he preferred to work with animals rather than people . |
| 6 | But he stopped in time , before reaching the bridge . |
| 7 | Milton caught himself opening his mouth to defend Lord Mountbatten 's right to be considered an Englishman , but he stopped in time . |
| 8 | He played for time . |
| 9 | Eventually he built up a collection of bells which he played in time to the tunes he would play on his harmonium . |
| 10 | He was charming , and found women desirable , so inevitably he weakened from time to time . |
| 11 | He woke from time to time and on each occasion drank a little more . |
| 12 | He arrived on time for his appointment and he was not kept waiting ; the receptionist introduced him at once . |
| 13 | He was employed on the reconstruction of the bishop of Winchester 's palace at Wolvesey , and he acted from time to time as architect as well as builder . |
| 14 | Another expression of this psychic force is found in the cynicism and bitterness he displayed from time to time when he grumbles about the dark , the flies and the cold ; but other references are very much stronger , e.g. ‘ The Cuckold 's Song ’ etc ) . |
| 15 | He was trying to qualify for the Spring Satellite , but he returned in time to defeat Simon Bramwell ( Herts ) , in the final round . |
| 16 | After that result he disappeared for a short while , but he returned in time to be included in Wilson 's government , initially as Secretary of State for Economic Affairs , a post he held between 1964 and 1966 . |
| 17 | Ulster champion jockey Paddy Graffin was taken to hospital with an injured hand after Late Stretch had fallen in the Mares Race , but he returned in time to ride Glenmavis in the final race . |
| 18 | After four months in the West End , Crawford was ordered by doctors to take a twelve-day rest to recover from a severe back strain , but he returned in time to appear in front of Prince Charles . |
| 19 | He glanced from time to time out of the window , as if to see what was happening down at the jetty . |
| 20 | A prince 's entourage provided his closest friends , his most trusted servants , the knights on whom he relied in time of crisis . |
| 21 | I made it a rule — which , it is true , he broke from time to time when he had something particularly pressing or intimate to convey — that he should not drop into French while we were together . |
| 22 | Well , are are you happy that he circulized over time , I mean , we can easily do that . |
| 23 | Although not a Christian , Plotinus was in some respects a forerunner of St Augustine , particularly because he thought of time in psychological terms . |
| 24 | No matter how paranoid he felt from time to time about the DIA , Coleman could not conceive that Control would have told him to get hold of a legitimate Thomas Leavy passport for Operation Shakespeare knowing in advance that it would blow the mission and lead to his arrest . |
| 25 | In short , he pleaded for time . |
| 26 | He sat on a chair facing the desk and did not look at Mr Rose , though he did from time to time tilt his head to measure the angled slices of building and reflected light arranged by the blind . |
| 27 | He wondered from time to time what sort of a life she led in that remote cottage with her writer friend , how far it had satisfied her . |