Example sentences of "him [prep] the time [conj] " in BNC.

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1 A girl from one of the other teams — for all of us had assembled by now — asked him for the time and briefly discussed the weather with him and when , after about 15 minutes , he struck off purposefully around a nearby playing field , he had a tail of 14 people — the entire membership of all four spy teams — determined not to lose their quarry .
2 Those who have worked with him during the time that he has been in his present post have come to admire the hard work , courage and assiduity with which he has pursued the object of bringing the parties within the island of Ireland to sit down with the British Government and resolve their differences .
3 His friends and colleagues were trying to persuade him at the time that this would not be wise — what on earth would happen to the British election campaign if the country had to go to war in the Gulf half-way through ?
4 Onassis invited me — I did n't know him at the time but later we became great friends — and we talked .
5 England captains must not do things like that , but they had not been able to sack him at the time because of the provocation he had been under ; now that he had stepped out of line again he gave them a heaven-sent opportunity to administer the axe .
6 Beryl 's words had impressed him at the time because they summed up his own vague feeling that what had happened and what was happening might be consequences of the old man 's cynical , even malicious contrivings .
7 Er , failure to produce his driving licence failure to produce a test certificate for the vehicle and failure to produce his insurance documents and what Mr says in respect of er , those three offenses is that er , the officer , he accepts , did tell him that he was obliged to produce the documents to a police station but he says that he was suffering some shock as a result of the road accident and er he did n't appreciate what the officer was saying to him at the time and , never having had to produce his documents at the police station before er , he had never er no , known that that was a procedure that had to be followed and in the circumstances he did n't pay any attention to the print on the H R T er , one form that was issued to him and he did n't produce the documents .
8 And what Mr says in respect of er those three offences is that erm the officer , he accepts , did tell him that he was obliged to produce the documents to a police station but he says that he was suffering some shock as a result of the road accident and er he did n't appreciate what the officer was saying to him at the time and , never having had to produce his documents at the police station before , er he had never er known that that was a procedure that had to be followed .
9 His aunt Miriam was with him at the time and she was showered in debris from the bomb .
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