Example sentences of "[verb] during his " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hated the growing fear my father ( and we ) shared during his illness , that he would mess the bed , and once suggested to him that all families should be required once a month to show each other the contents of their potties . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , Mr Candlish expresses his gratitude for assistance received during his period of office as president . |
| 3 | I suspect his letters to Taplow produced during his trial were forgeries , whilst Taplow himself with his tenuous links with Buckingham was used as a catspaw . |
| 4 | In an incubator a brown-gold boy , naked and perfect except that both his legs had been broken during his birth , and were now suspended from a delicately constructed pulley and weight inside his perspex container . |
| 5 | But so far as an answer can be found , it must be sought in the influences to which he was exposed during his exile . |
| 6 | The porch was commissioned by Bishop John Jewel , and its design may have been influenced by the neo-classical architecture to which Jewel had been exposed during his years of exile in Mary 's reign . |
| 7 | The summer sun , to which he was so often exposed during his many sporting pursuits , had accentuated his freckles . |
| 8 | What are we to conclude about the implications for his later personality of the way in which a child is treated during his early years ? |
| 9 | MR ARTHUR Scargill , NUM president , demanded yesterday that , if Labour won , it should repeal all anti-union legislation , dismiss the British Coal board and reinstate all miners sacked during his year-long pit strike , writes Kevin Maguire , Labour Correspondent . |
| 10 | R. A. Butler believed the Education Act that was introduced and passed during his tenure as President of the Board of Education was a major change , in the direction of making Britain educationally ‘ one nation , not two ’ . |
| 11 | He maintained his strong links with the world of the deaf formed during his two years at the Institution by getting together with Matthew Burns , q.v. , and Alexander Blackwood to start Sunday services for the deaf of Edinburgh in June 1830 . |
| 12 | Significantly , Macleod announced during his speech that the government planned to ensure that Hong Kong 's fiscal reserves would stand at HK$71,600 million by March 1997 ( Hong Kong was to revert to Chinese sovereignty in July 1997 ) . |
| 13 | The name ‘ Someone ’ that the protagonist is given during his death indicates his loss of social identity : he is no one in particular but all people , for his nuclear death family constitutes the ‘ primeval atom ’ . |
| 14 | The old man had been revered during his lifetime and even more so after his death . |
| 15 | After two years of preparing with tutors , Dolben fainted during his examinations for Balliol in the spring of 1867 and failed . |
| 16 | He had undertaken during his campaign to take this step , but was also believed to be under intense pressure from senior military personnel to reconsider this commitment . |
| 17 | The influence of Pater — which lies beneath Edward 's undergraduate article on the ‘ Frontiers of English Prose ’ with its carefully argued refusal to draw distinctions between prose and poetry — developed during his first non-collegiate year at Oxford . |
| 18 | On the other hand , as his awareness of his own homosexual tendencies developed during his teens , the deep emotional dependence on his mother was complicated by a contrary feeling of resentment , based no doubt on guilt . |
| 19 | The dominance of the figure of Frederick Barbarossa makes it easy to lose sight of other major characters who lived during his reign . |
| 20 | One of the first things Tolkien did after his return to Oxford in 1925 was to set up an Icelandic reading group such as he had enjoyed during his last job , as Professor of English at Leeds . |
| 21 | Because she had spent much of that day watching her mother supervise preparations for the traditional Gio ceremony observed by the family on each anniversary of her great-grandfather 's death , Lan knew the altar held all the favourite foods and beverages that the high-ranking courtier had enjoyed during his lifetime . |
| 22 | ITALY 'S La Scala opera house threatened yesterday to take ‘ extreme ’ action against rowdy Milan audiences after Luciano Pavarotti , left , was heckled during his first performance there in five years . |
| 23 | Mr Sisulu 's generosity and warmth did not waver during his time in the maximum security prison of Robben Island , where other inmates deferred to him as a charismatic senior statesman of what has been called ‘ the government-in-exile ’ . |
| 24 | The Collector was astonished by how little the Prime Minister had hanged during his month of captivity . |
| 25 | Majid had a brutal reputation , earned during his suppression of the 1988 Kurdish rebellion and his period as governor of Kuwait following the August 1990 invasion . |
| 26 | … seeks to find out whether , and to what degree , man has during his long tenure of the earth , changed it from its hypothetical pristine condition , for as Yi Fu Tuan ( 1971 ) has put it : ‘ The fact of diminishing nature and of human ubiquity is now obvious ’ . |
| 27 | As Kahl found during his research in Mexico and Brazil , the higher the social status the greater the likelihood of modernism ( Kahl 1970 ) . |
| 28 | So for eighteen months we only met three times , when he visited during his leaves . |
| 29 | In his 1842 ‘ Irish Sketchbook ’ William Makepeace Thackeray has compliments to pay , all the more valuable because he is critical of a great many other , better-known places which he visited during his tour of Ireland . |
| 30 | He was far more impressed at the fair in Guérande , an old fortified town north-west of St Nazaire , which he visited during his walking tour of Brittany with Du Camp in 1847 . |