Example sentences of "[vb pp] he [prep] the time " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Memories came rushing back of the night when Johnny had described this room ; the night she had told him about the time hiccup .
3 Zen had hardly heard him at the time , shocked by the sight of the man he had been summoned to Perugia to save Iying naked on a plastic sheet with a thermometer sticking out of his anus .
4 It had upset him at the time , but you had to get over stuff like that or you 'd go to the wall .
5 ‘ He would verbalize his sadnesses , throw his arms about as he told elaborate stories concerning people who had upset him at the time , even when going into sad tales about people who were important to him .
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