Example sentences of "[vb past] his [noun] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he failed to persevere with his invention ; nor was the era of relatively abundant labour supply and of machine-breaking propitious for its development , whereas McCormick perfected his reaper at a time favourable to its adoption by farmers in North America and Europe . |
| 2 | Gifford dated his success from the time he started to use it ; he signed his pictures with Winsor blue and a dab of the pure colour occurs somewhere in them , a sort of trademark . ’ |
| 3 | The pilots were not sorry to go ; Doug Whitney entered in his logbook of the flight out : ‘ The finest sight of Malta I 've seen … ’ which , he adds , no doubt expressed his feelings at the time . |
| 4 | Furthermore , it must be remembered that my father was a butler of an earlier generation who began his career at a time when such attributes were not considered proper , let alone desirable in a butler . |
| 5 | The book helped him and satisfied his mind for the time . |
| 6 | He stole the show and became the epitome of the American anti-hero , the spit-in-your-eye champion of counter-culture whose irreverence captivated and finally liberated his audiences from the time warp in which they had been trapped since Montgomery Clift , Marlon Brando and James Dean began it in a rather less volatile manner in the early Fifties . |
| 7 | I know that you came only to honour dear Crabb , at a small informal party , because he had been of assistance to your illustrious father , and valued his work at a time when it meant a great deal to him . |