Example sentences of "time at his " in BNC.

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1 As the tide sweeps on , the sight of President Ceausescu being applauded 67 times at his party congress — while Mrs Ceausescu sat in grim solitude — only highlights the increasingly anachronistic character of this European North Korea .
2 As the tide sweeps on , the sight of President Ceausescu being applauded 67 times at his party congress — while Mrs Ceausescu sat in grim solitude — only highlights the increasingly anachronistic character of this European North Korea .
3 Vandals struck six times at his car and his parents ' car .
4 Cunningham was leafing through a copy of the Financial Times at his desk amidst a cloud of cigar-smoke , beaming like some genial movie mogul , altogether unaffected , it seemed , by the events of the previous night .
5 His arrival suggests that Mr Bush will appear more often on television , spend less time at his Maine seaside retreat , and less time playing with his dogs .
6 It 'll take a long time at his age but it 'll mend .
7 He lived for most of the time at his family seat at Laxton Hall , Northamptonshire , with his wife and only daughter , and frequented St. Saviour 's Church for the Deaf in London .
8 Hope and I continued our conversation a few weeks later , this time at his terraced house in Stoke Newington .
9 That old devil , Time , was what he saw there , Time at his insidious work , leafing through the picture-album of his past and using the sky outside the window to throw long-forgotten images onto its evening brightness , each disposition of cloud-shape and colour-tint magically re-forming into a scene from his Granard childhood .
10 In 737 Ceolwulf abdicated and was tonsured , apparently this time at his own request , to become a monk on Lindisfarne .
11 Tom would n't talk about it and spent most of his spare time at his club .
12 If he could have looked ahead through time at his counterpart in the late 1980s , would he have been scornful of his sunglasses , his insignia of rank , his fat-cat complacent air ?
13 If he could have looked through time at his late 1980s counterpart , would he have been scornful of his sunglasses , his insignia of rank , his fat-cat complacent air ?
14 Joyfully , they made love again , this time at his pace , not hers , even with a contraceptive he produced , both of them delighted by their mutual daring .
15 Now on the seventeenth of September Mr met Peter on the defendant 's firm er for the first time at his office , where they had er a general discussion about the business and about what needed to be done in order to secure it and er the plaintiffs at that stage told Peter that there should be er no problems over finance as he understood the bank were willing to assist and at that stage he wanted to move as quickly as possible to exchange contracts on the business erm , for two reasons .
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