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

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1 But at that time he was fully occupied with BAT .
2 Vanbrugh was appointed as designer but at that time he is not known to have had any architectural experience ; his career had until then been a military one .
3 And at that time he wrote in a letter , ‘ In these concerts I could n't make enough slowings and accelerations . ’
4 ‘ Nowadays , David might reasonably be thought a part of this , but at that time he too seemed to be running out of steam .
5 At that time he was 30 , now completely cut off from his family and their protection and released from all their loving bonds .
6 In his move towards the latter , perhaps at that time he did not quite appreciate how influential to himself and others Roger Corman had become in providing the schooling for some of the most important film-makers of the second half of the twentieth century .
7 With the coming of civilisation and the beginning of this , the third of the Three Periods into which the reader is reminded the explanation of the Created God is divided , man was on the threshold of the era of his greatest testing , even though at that time he may not have been aware of it .
8 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 .
9 At that time he travelled on a little inter-island plane to the northerly island of Westray to teach for two days a week ; for a while he taught for two days on the island of Sanday as well .
10 We asked after Pop and were glad to hear that at that time he was still well .
11 Perhaps it was fortunate that at that time he discovered girls , and a year later met the Dawsons , who always seemed to have time to stop and gossip with him .
12 At that time he will establish God 's kingdom for all to see .
13 At that time he would have been like many thousand of other youngsters , the sweepings of the hungry ‘ forties .
14 At that time he had been able to write to Lanfranc to ask if he remembered anything about these transactions .
15 At that time he did n't have the guns to storm the big parts .
16 At that time he was head of the College of Aeronautics , and I put it to him that there could be advantages both for Cranfield and for AIB if there were a two-month residential course for potential aircraft accident investigators .
17 I am not sure if Sir Henry Wood conducted it , for at that time he seemed to conduct only the first item of a concert , and then ceded the podium to Basil Cameron .
18 At that time he was like many young men of energy and ambition who saw little prospect of self-advancement in Ireland .
19 At that time he also maintained a large London house , at first in South Kensington , later in Eaton Square .
20 All we had to do was to pay the expense of the helicopter that brought him in because at that time he was appearing at the Prince of Wales and it was a matter of him fitting his time in with his performances , you see ?
21 It may not be the simple case of the patient having no capacity because , for example , at that time he had hallucinations .
22 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 .
23 I 've got one brother , but he was younger than me and at that time he were going to school anyway .
24 Unless — unless at that time he was still living .
25 You see so a branch of the er London paper and at that time he was editor of the paper , they came up together , found it here .
26 At that time he admitted controlling an industrial capital of £800,000 .
27 At that time he had been a practising Catholic for two or three months .
28 At that time he and his family lived at the Roveries , and before the Railway was built , the Oakeleys drove to Craven Arms to catch the train to Ludlow or Shrewsbury .
29 At that time he owned supply wagons contracted to the army and he was at Fort Thomas when this boy who was called Ish-kay-nay was brought in with some prisoners .
30 At that time he had flown nearly 60 sorties in the Middle East before joining PFF and his total trips are somewhat obscure , but it was certainly not less than 147 ( AVM Bennett , in his book Pathfinder , credits him with 143 ) .
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