Example sentences of "[prep] this time he " in BNC.
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| 1 | About this time he started to wonder whether he ought to be a monk . |
| 2 | At about this time he acquired the churches of Brightwalton and Melton Mowbray , gifts from the monks of Battle and Lewes . |
| 3 | At about this time he returned to Courthill to assist his father , and so he was able to use all the resources of the smithy to make the kind of machine that was in his mind . |
| 4 | During this time he became acquainted with John Ray , the great English naturalist , and Robert Boyle , the philosopher , both of whom gave help and encouragement to the young man . |
| 5 | During this time he was inspired by a book called London Labour and London Poor by Henry Mayhew . |
| 6 | During this time he becomes all the world to her , and he is grateful but unaware of her affection . |
| 7 | During this time he was ordained deacon and priest . |
| 8 | And during this time he must have trodden pretty much every footpath there . |
| 9 | During this time he does not feed , but relies on his body fat , accumulated during the period of good summer feeding — this prolonged fast may later prove very costly . |
| 10 | During this time he earned a reputation as an intrepid aerial adventurer , in whom no less a person than King George III took a special interest in his ballooning exploits . |
| 11 | During this time he had remained by the door , his expressionless gaze following her every move . |
| 12 | During this time he continued to work on the design of docks and harbours in the Isle of Man , the river Mersey , and Cardiff , as well as many of the Trinity House lighthouses . |
| 13 | During this time he shared lodgings with W. A. S. Benson , a metalwork designer and friend of William Morris [ qq.v . ] . |
| 14 | During this time he taught Irish extensively and in 1908 founded St Enda 's , a boys ' bilingual secondary school . |
| 15 | During this time he attended evening classes at the City School and at Glasgow University . |
| 16 | During this time he developed an interest in art , to such an extent that he gave up the security of work in 1846 . |
| 17 | During this time he introduced cast-iron brake blocks of the type which later came into general use . |
| 18 | During this time he expanded the ironmongery business to include the manufacture of wrought-iron conservatories like those advocated by John Claudius Loudon [ q.v. ] , who invented the first wrought-iron glazing bar in 1816 , which was manufactured and later patented in 1818 by W. and D. Bailey of Holborn . |
| 19 | During this time he developed and patented several new types of high-pressure steam boiler as well as making improvements to steam-tight glands , valves for pumps , and anti-clinkering fire bars . |
| 20 | During this time he was desperately pressed with debts and with the payment of his common service of 1,450 florins to the Roman curia , which he effected by February 1321 . |
| 21 | During this time he 'd settled with ease into the household , which had surprised the girls who looked after him ; they had anticipated difficulty . |
| 22 | In 1579 , he was appointed Justice of the Peace for Kent and during this time he became associated with Sir John Leveson of Whornes Place who later became his close friend . |
| 23 | Lambarde continued living at the Palace until 1598 and during this time he maintained and kept in repair the buildings . |
| 24 | During this time he had admitted killing William Egan . |
| 25 | During this time he participated in the negotiations in Geneva to end the war in Indochina . |
| 26 | During this time he introduced himself to the Governor of New South Wales , who received me most kindly and offered me every assistance ’ , and paid his respects to Captain Philip Parker King , who had commanded his expedition with Lady Franklin to Recherche Bay the previous December , and who was now resident in Sydney as Port Officer and Superintendent of Government Vessels . |
| 27 | During this time he falls completely under its spell . |
| 28 | All through this time he hardly had any painkillers as it was very important he did n't feel that he could use his leg before it was strong enough . |
| 29 | Less than a month separates the publisher 's acceptance of the book and Nietzsche 's completion of the revision ; and during part of this time he was busy preparing lectures on Plato and , unexpectedly enough , on Latin epigraphy . " |
| 30 | Throughout this time he retained the affections of members of the Association . |