Example sentences of "[verb] his [noun sg] at the time " in BNC.

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1 I did n't understand his disability at the time , for he had a progressive muscular disease .
2 He did n't tell his father at the time , but he longed to help his parents financially with his younger brother 's and sister 's education .
3 Lowe happened to have a Manly Rugby Club official building his house at the time and the official acted as an intermediary between Lowe and Ofahengaue .
4 Solti 's conducting is simply too unstable and volatile to give much satisfaction , showing his inexperience at the time in Wagner ( how sad Knappertsbusch was n't given the assignment ) .
5 The Court of Appeal confirmed that the defence of provocation was unavailable ; even if D had lost his self-control at the time , it was hardly a sudden and temporary response to an act of the deceased , who was asleep when D struck him .
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