Example sentences of "time he [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several times he apologised for using what was perhaps the wrong word . |
| 2 | It is strange , however , that Garrick did not subscribe for Leapor 's volumes , since at almost the same time he subscribed for the Irish bricklayer poet , Henry Jones , though this may have been done to please Chesterfield . |
| 3 | At the time he prepared for and received Eucharist , he was the oldest of 32 residents of a home for severely handicapped children under Catholic auspices . |
| 4 | He had , according to Bowdler Sharpe , amassed a fortune of £17,000 from his publications by the time he left for Australia . |
| 5 | At the same time he arranged for Burgess to be sent home to extricate Maclean before the net closed . |
| 6 | Asked why Hulme , with an open goal before him , did not move up further to be certain of his target before shooting , he answered that the man on the field did not have as clear a view of the situation around him as did the spectator and was not always aware of how much time he had for his moves . |
| 7 | Of course Wooderson could get things wrong — like the time he went for the British mile record and broke the world time . |
| 8 | Reagan hammered away at themes which he had been developing for some years and which would be wheeled out every time he ran for public office . |
| 9 | Lear was doubtless unhappy during much of the time he worked for Gould ; he was also constantly unwell , often in desperate financial straits , and had been finding lithography an increasing strain on his eyesight and his nerves . |
| 10 | Michael Codron had been going there as part of the Kenneth Williams set since the time he worked for the Jack Hylton organization . |
| 11 | He tried to pull himself forward , branch to branch , but with his hands bound , he lost ground each time he grabbed for a fresh hold . |
| 12 | By the time he arrived for Troon for the 1973 British Open , he 'd calmed down altogether ; he could n't do enough for me . |
| 13 | Most of that time he dived for red snapper along the edge of a break in the reef . |
| 14 | He 'd be half blind by the time he stopped for sleep , his vision clunking with green and purple balls . |
| 15 | Unless he was driving across France , Preston thought , and ringing every time he stopped for a break , to make sure she was still there . |