Example sentences of "[Wh det] time he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few years later , between 1972 and 1975 , he had a spell with Warwickshire , during which time he returned to the Test team against Australia in 1972–3 — he had played only one other series in the meantime , against England in 1967–8 — and remained a fixture for the rest of the decade . |
| 2 | Glancing at his watch , Donaldson saw that it was after five ; seven hours since he 'd been picked up at the courtroom , during which time he 'd skipped lunch and spent his afternoon handing tidbits to a bright primate . |
| 3 | Levine , an investment banker at a prestigious Wall Street firm , was alleged to have been involved in insider trading over a period of six years , during which time he made huge profits while trading on the basis of material nonpublic information in the securities of companies . |
| 4 | His work for the BDDA stretched over nearly twenty years , during which time he served in an honourary capacity as Secretary , as Chairman of the Scottish Regional Council and as editor of the BDN in succession to Kenneth McDougall . |
| 5 | The Olympic 100 metres champion will retire after the Commonwealth Games in Canada in 1994 , by which time he hopes to have added the World Championship gold medal to his trophy chest . |
| 6 | The Olympic 100 metres champion will retire after the Commonwealth Games in 1994 , by which time he hopes to have won the World Championship gold medal . |
| 7 | He told the reporter that he later lived for two years on a barge near Shrewsbury , during which time he suffered a stroke but refused to go to hospital . |
| 8 | Stockdale was a former Navy pilot who was shot down in Vietnam in 1965 and held prisoner for 2,714 days , during which time he suffered extensive maltreatment and torture . |
| 9 | Her father stayed for five years , during which time he became doubly incontinent and increasingly senile . |
| 10 | Following a series of strikes in 1981 , he was detained for three months , during which time he became a " born-again " Christian . |
| 11 | Sharpe had no watch , but he estimated that he stayed at the edge of the wood for two hours during which time he counted twenty-two guns and forty-eight supply wagons . |
| 12 | That call was an hour and a half in coming , during which time he distracted himself thinking about the shows that were opening in the coming week . |
| 13 | George Hurst , the son of a curate , was born in 1800 and was apprenticed to a silk mercer at the age of 13 , at the end of which time he applied himself to an energetic programme of self-improvement and became a schoolteacher . |
| 14 | and he renounces all but one annual link with her , at which time he meets von Tarlenheim in Dresden and receives from him : |
| 15 | Thereafter , apart from a small private income , he subsisted on a university pension for a further ten years , during which time he produced the bulk of his philosophical works , at that time largely unknown , until in January 1889 all creative work ended abruptly with his mental breakdown ; he died in 1900 . |
| 16 | Brown , 51 , was the first black chairman of the Democratic national committee during which time he revamped his party 's fund-raising and research organization . |
| 17 | After junior appointments at St Thomas 's and Great Ormond Street he entered the Royal Army Medical Corps for two years , during part of which time he investigated the dangers of hyperthermia in tank crews and how they might be overcome . |
| 18 | Ray Talbot 's remedy is a ten-minute dip in a salt bath ( 11 gallons of water to one kilo of salt , with aeration ) during which time he breaks open the lesions with his thumbnail . |
| 19 | Its good reception encouraged Boyle to set pen to paper , publishing his results in June 1663 , at which time he observed , ‘ Nor is it only by dissection of various animals that the naturalist may promote the anatomist 's knowledge , but perhaps he may do it by devising ways to make the dead bodies of man and other animals keep longer than naturally they would do . ’ |
| 20 | William White had worked in the office of the architect Sir George Gilbert Scott , during which time he had met the famous church architects G.F. Bodley and G.E . |
| 21 | Goleniewski had been in touch with the CIA since 1958 during which time he had passed on to them a considerable amount of information that had led to the arrest of several important spies . |
| 22 | In February 1990 , by which time he had moved to become manager of West Ham , Macari became embroiled in financial scandals dating back to his years at Swindon and eventually ended in the newly promoted club being relegated from the First Division to the Third , a draconian punishment which was partially decreased on appeal . |
| 23 | He did not want to attract attention by being the first or last to appear for dinner , so he left things until five minutes to eight , by which time he had heard several other guests moving about . |
| 24 | Bob went on from there , season in , season out , to the end of 1931–32 , by which time he had made 293 League appearances for Crystal Palace ( a club record at the time , but of course they did not make much of such things in those days ) and even today , almost 60 years later , there are fewer than only half a dozen Palace men who have played more times for us than that . |
| 25 | He was almost 60 years of age and had been a fugitive for 22 years , during which time he had had no permanent home , no source of income and little respite from danger . |
| 26 | He had been Dean of Chichester since 1567 , during which time he had succeeded in alienating almost the entire chapter by his forthright attacks on venality , pluralism and spiritual laxity . |
| 27 | Mozart 's lodge , with others , was subsumed into a larger one , Zur neugekrönten Hoffnung ( New Crowned Hope ) , by which time he had been raised to the third degree , that of Master Mason . |
| 28 | When Wood retired in 1968 ( by which time he had become head porter ) he gave an account of his 35 years of service ; what follows are extracts from his address , in his own words : |
| 29 | After a career in the British army , during which time he had done a great deal of fieldwork and excavation , and had amassed a collection of artefacts from all over the world , he spent the rest of his life studying and excavating archaeological sites on his estate . |
| 30 | in April 1729 , by which time he had a high reputation , particularly as a maker of surveying instruments , being known especially for his accurate division of scales . |