Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] during his " in BNC.

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1 He was n't expecting much to have come in during his absence but if nothing else there should be something from the foreign residents department at the Questura .
2 As a young radio announcer he had shown a talent for communication that he had subsequently built on during his years in Hollywood and it was also during this period that politics became a consuming interest .
3 It is held by Moslems to contain all the essentials of their belief , and to be a collection of passages of direct revelation uttered by Mohammed ( although not all written down during his lifetime ) .
4 But the true memorial to his father , the empire Xavier de Chavigny had so painstakingly and brilliantly built up during his lifetime — that he had simply allowed to decay .
5 Furthermore , it gave him an excellent excuse not to apply his mind to the dismal subjects rearmament , the war in Spain , relations with Hitler , the distressed areas the weight of which had built up during his absence .
6 ‘ Whatever a man remembers at the last , when he is leaving the body , will be realised by him hereafter ; because that will be what his mind constantly dwelt on during his life . ’
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