Example sentences of "his [adj] [noun] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Irked by the very qualities which had once so attracted him — her girlishness and inconsequential chatter — Hardy gradually excluded Emma from his professional life at a time when his fame as a novelist was steadily growing , and , from about 1890 , frankly looked outside his marriage for companionship . |
| 2 | And despite the fact that he is unveiling his Cicciolina-inspired work at a time when sexually-adventurous artists are regularly harassed , progressive museum directors arrested on obscenity charges , and an increasing number of independent films slapped with the dreaded X-rating — a proven box-office poison — Koons says he is not worried about achieving his goals . |
| 3 | He started his political career at the time when the Cenomarv of Brixia answered the call to rebellion from the last Punic commander in Italy , Hamilcar . |
| 4 | Thomas believes that he sipped his favourite drink at the time , Campari and soda , because he believed — in the terminology of the time — that was the ‘ with-it ’ thing to do . |
| 5 | The Last of the Mohicans had been his favourite book at the time ; he had insisted on being Hawkeye and Tim Skerritt on being the treacherous Indian , Magua . |
| 6 | In subsection ( 2 ) above ‘ necessaries ’ means goods suitable to the condition in life of the minor or other person concerned and to his actual requirements at the time of the sale and delivery . ’ |
| 7 | " The grand old man " of the BDDA , George Frederick Healey , was in his eightieth year at the time of the Birmingham Congress . |
| 8 | He had a point , though I ca n't say I appreciated his little joke at the time . |
| 9 | Jacques had already put in a plea to this effect in December 1954 , when asked by the National WEA officers to state his ideal requirements at the time of negotiations with the Ministry following the Ashby Report . |
| 10 | His great courage at the time eventually earned him the Military Cross , but the harrowing experience was for a long while foremost in his mind and symbolized by the walk back to his commanding officer over a mass of dead German and British soldiers in which his feet scarcely touched the ground . |
| 11 | Fittipaldi was two months short of his 24th birthday at the time . |
| 12 | He had been abroad on his support-gathering tour at the time of the malai invasion . |
| 13 | He himself missed his nightly intercourse at the time of the births , even with the knowledge that she resented it . |
| 14 | Already in 1928 he was protesting that his own pronouncements at the time of the Imagist manifesto were tailored to the specific needs of 1914 , and should not be taken as binding fourteen years later . |
| 15 | If Let Us Compare Mytholoqies marks the awakening of his poetic consciousness when the city of Montreal ( and all that was in it , not excluding its female charms ) ‘ began to jump at me , ’ The Spice-Box Of Earth marks the heightening of his Jewish consciousness which he encountered in young adulthood , as a free agent abroad in the world , having to establish his own identity at a time when his own Tradition , and his position in it , began likewise to jump at him . |
| 16 | In his forty-second year at the time of his death , his latter years had been passed in luxury and rich living . |