Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You have the money ? ’ he asked after some time . |
| 2 | When he moved at this time to larger premises at no. 5 Charing Cross , his maps were reputed the finest being engraved anywhere in the world . |
| 3 | Thirty years afterwards Charles still felt deeply the humiliation he suffered at this time ; but unlike some little princes in similar situations , he lived , politically as well as literally , to fight another day . |
| 4 | Among places he surveyed at this time were the park of Auckland Castle and Lanchester Common . |
| 5 | He has never forgotten the lessons he learnt at that time . |
| 6 | However , Nietzsche 's first editors ( 1895 ) , then his sister ( 1897 ) , and subsequently the world at large have asserted that the scale of this last revision was substantial and , specifically-that of the book 's eventual twenty-five sections , he added at this time the final six ( 20–25 ) , which are partly ( though not , as is often said , largely ) concerned with Wagner . " |
| 7 | He added at this time that the further information was that the occupants of the flat at we were frightened of I also . |
| 8 | Was genuine he added at this time that er the further information was that the occupants of the flat at were frightened of . |
| 9 | But I think that by the end of his career , Mario knew that he belonged to another time and another place . |
| 10 | When Queen Elizabeth , on a state visit to Germany in May 1965 , arrived in Stuttgart for a formal lunch , John took care over his clothes but either forgot or did not think it necessary to find a pair of socks less obtrusive than the bright reds or blues he favoured at that time . |
| 11 | He talked for some time about a poet called Rimbo . |
| 12 | But his philosophy that when your ‘ time 's up your time 's up ’ saw him through and he 's back to tell the tale , though sadly he chose not to include the pictures he took at that time . |
| 13 | With the benefit of a later viewpoint , aided not least by the opportunity to reflect on Bolinger 's own work , we would suggest that , in most cases , other answers are more appropriate than the ones which he offered at that time ( nevertheless , we return to this article more than once in the chapters which follow ) . |
| 14 | He listened for some time before judging it safe to tiptoe downstairs . |
| 15 | One of the most attractive designs that he did at this time was for Kay Dick 's novel , An Affair of Love ( 1953 ) . |
| 16 | Sara would always remember gratefully the help he gave at that time ‘ to render a miserable cottage , an abode of comparative comfort ’ . |
| 17 | The Oxford lectures which he gave at this time were eventually to be published as The Discarded Image , perhaps the most completely satisfying and impressive book he ever published . |
| 18 | He had for some time , in the instinctive darkness of his mind in which so many heterogeneous problems were circulating , been wondering how , in what undramatic , as it were casual , not yet significant context he might utter them . |
| 19 | R. A. Butler , one of the Conservative Party 's chief spokesmen on foreign affairs , stated in the House of Commons on 27 February 1947 that he had for some time regarded Korea ‘ as perhaps the greatest danger spot for peace in the Far East ’ . |
| 20 | He had been able to join in mathematical discussion with the English he had at that time . |
| 21 | These days he felt happier than he had at any time in his life . |
| 22 | Bigwig was racing back across the field , looking more agitated than he had at any time since the encounter with Captain Holly . |
| 23 | A little over an hour later , Harry felt more in control of events than he had at any time since Heather 's disappearance . |
| 24 | He had always considered Sir John a portly , self-indulgent toper , but at this moment the coroner seemed more at ease , sword and dagger in his hands , fighting for his life , than he had at any time since they had met . |
| 25 | He had by this time divorced his first wife . |
| 26 | He had by this time been child factory worker , apprentice framework knitter and short-term seaman , so his reaction is significant . |
| 27 | ‘ My mates and I came up here one day when there was no English football , Christmas Eve I think , and I just got hooked , ’ he said at half time . |
| 28 | But poetry and music were not the only things that he wrote at this time . |
| 29 | Two other books which he wrote at this time were to cause him serious trouble . |
| 30 | In another passage our final text reads ‘ His words were as if meant for himself , but he spoke them aloud , and he continued for some time to look at his sister like a man perplexed . ’ |