Example sentences of "and [prep] the time he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was from London and at the time he left claimed that his wife was homesick . |
| 2 | It is to steal his own clothes , and by the time he comes to Sonya to confess , the Napoleonic idea is already crumbling into wanting to dare or something even vaguer . |
| 3 | He had left and walked back to the hotel , and by the time he reached it the police were waiting for him in the lobby . |
| 4 | Watson was elected a Fellow and Secretary of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1967 , and by the time he retired in 1979 he had guided it through its greatest period of change since its creation in 1818 , with dramatic increases in membership . |
| 5 | Firelight generally ate a bit of her haynet and by the time he settled down to go to sleep she lay down as well . |
| 6 | There was the slimy membrane and some messy stuff that Nails cleared away diligently and threw outside ; he got some fresh straw and by the time he had done that the foal was trying to stand up , with great difficulty . |
| 7 | And by the time he realises it , his love affair with fishing is over , and he can never recapture that truly magical feeling again . |
| 8 | Coleridge 's opinion of Dorothy was soon to be recorded by him in words no less intense , and by the time he parted from the Wordsworths on 28 June , they were all determined that their separation from one another should be as brief as possible . |
| 9 | And by the time he got to the next corner , we 'd be back on the corner . ' |
| 10 | He played for his County boys ' team at the tender age of 11 years and by the time he was 13 he was reserve for the England Boys International team against Scotland . |
| 11 | The other problem which arose in modus was that ownership passed to A before he need even dream of performance , and by the time he was reminded it was relatively hard to get him , as owner , to think of his duties towards B. It is , however , a very intractable question how purposes were enforced in Roman law . |
| 12 | The Arnhem mortar fragment had ended his war however , and by the time he got out of military hospital it was more or less over . |
| 13 | In his leisure hours , Lowe was a linguist and by the time he was 34 years old , he could read and write in French ( modern and Old Norman ) , Latin , Greek ( ancient and modern ) , German , Italian , Spanish , Portuguese , Dutch and Danish . |
| 14 | From sketching the outfits she made to inventing designs of his own was but a short step and by the time he left High School he knew exactly what he wanted to do . |
| 15 | He encouraged her to talk about Paddy , asking questions as if he was really interested , and by the time he pulled up she was beginning to feel much better . |
| 16 | The only transport available was a dog cart , which he hired of necessity , but the slowness made his temper worse , and by the time he reached the rectory he felt as if he would burst with fury . |
| 17 | They were held up just north of the city , repairs on the line , and by the time he reached the house on Mahogany Drive it was n't early any more , it was after midnight . |
| 18 | It is an area where a woman may gain control over a man , for while he gaily assumes that the present is spontaneous , and the future an open book , she is quietly mapping out the course of future events and by the time he wakes up to this fact it is too late to do much about it . |
| 19 | The impossibility of it grew in Paul 's mind , and by the time he reached his lodgings that was made up . |
| 20 | He had a number of scenes reshot because he did n't like the way he looked in the original scenes , and by the time he had finished hacking up the picture , it was a complete mess . |
| 21 | Within a few minutes I not only felt but heard the tissue in the sinuses beginning to break up , and by the time he had finished both were completely clear . |
| 22 | Ca n't blame him , the kids ’ lives were of paramount importance , and by the time he 'd calmed them down , the car was well away . ’ |
| 23 | Mr Blackman hesitated , and by the time he had formed a limited partnership to launch his schismatic fair , the would-be faithful had signed on with CIAE 's crosstown competition , David and Lee Ann Lester 's three-year-old Art Chicago International . |
| 24 | He sank into the waiting limo unshaven , crumpled , white-faced , nervous , shattered and by the time he got to the posh Beverly Hills Hotel , in need of the complimentary bottle of Scotch a thoughtful management had left in his room . |
| 25 | As early as 1524 , Henry had given up all hope of Catherine bearing another child , and by the time he became infatuated with Anne Boleyn two years later , he had already begun to convince himself that his wife 's failure to give birth to a son who survived infancy was a sign that his marriage to his brother 's widow was sinful , in that it had broken the laws concerning affinity laid down in the Old Testament Book of Leviticus ( chapter 20 : verse 21 ) . |
| 26 | The site of the original tea house was the culmination of a guest 's journey through the host 's garden , and by the time he reached this destination he would have undergone a slowing-down of life 's hectic pace , ritual purification at the water basin and a whole series of social interactions based on hospitality and formalised responses to what had been encountered on the way . |
| 27 | But Mosley campaigned in Tuscany by phone and by the time he returned to London for the autumn , the plan was set , letters were going out and Balestre was in for a surprise . |
| 28 | he had gone down without a sound — and by the time he had woken up , his ship had been two days out into the Channel . |
| 29 | Although then 70-years-old , the old man was sent to prison and forced to endure re-educative hard labour and constant self-criticism for several years , and by the time he returned home his despairing wife had already committed suicide . |
| 30 | The Shy One hardly ever speaks , partly due to nerves but more usually because he thinks more slowly than his colleagues , and by the time he has thought out a contribution someone else has already said it . |