Example sentences of "him [prep] the time " 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 | ‘ Carry on seeing him for the time being . |
| 3 | Memories came rushing back of the night when Johnny had described this room ; the night she had told him about the time hiccup . |
| 4 | He recalled his telling him about the time he went into a pub when a man suggested having sex with him and pulled down his trousers in front of the assembled company . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For the remaining half-hour she would be pleasant to him , and then she would quietly and purposefully remind him of the time , and with gentle dignity insist that he take her home . |
| 7 | Oh yeah , he told me afterwards right , that he , the only reason he was angry was because Friday night reminded him of the time in his past or something ! |
| 8 | She is infatuated with a handsome police chief , goes rather grimly to bed with him in the time he can spare from gambling sessions , and then kills herself . |
| 9 | When working with the patient who considers himself a consistent failure in a particular area of his life , part of that treatment may well involve regressing him to the time of one of these earlier successes . |
| 10 | He was sort of evasive and fey and appeared relatively shy and my impression of him at the time was that he had little charisma , no star quality and not a lot of talent , and it came as a big surprise when he became as successful as he was . |
| 11 | David has always , for a time , hitched his rocket on somebody who is powerful — no question about it — he 's powerful himself , but he needed an injection of ruthlessness which Ken Pitt , being a very sweet , nice man , was n't giving him at the time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The position of Battalion Entertainments Officer was no longer held by Charles within five minutes of the drop of the curtain and although that was gratifying to him at the time , in spite of the manner of his dismissal , there were additional deprivations inflicted by a scandalized CO , that were not easy to bear . |
| 14 | Onassis invited me — I did n't know him at the time but later we became great friends — and we talked . |
| 15 | Leigh-Pemberton said yesterday that PR was a subject that ‘ quite interested ’ him at the time , but that he now has ‘ no particular views ’ . |
| 16 | Some of the people who were most closely associated with him at the time find that hard to believe ; they remember him as being liberally inclined but not politically minded . |
| 17 | ‘ It was n't him at the time , ’ says Rigby . |
| 18 | It is worth mentioning , all the same , that a time will come when a frequent absentee can be fairly dismissed and that a failure to consult him at the time of dismissal will not necessarily mean that the company will be powerless to resist an unfair dismissal claim . |
| 19 | The member is also liable to be adjudged incapable of being elected or appointed to any public office for five years from the date of his conviction and also to forfeit any such office held by him at the time of his conviction . |
| 20 | After attempting to speak to his ex-girl friend on the telephone and finding she was out he decided to have another drink , and then started to think about taking some tablets which his GP had prescribed for him at the time when his girl friend had left him . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | He was 55 years old in 1860 , living in Lambeth as a bachelor — perhaps with nothing much else to interest him at the time ? |
| 23 | About once a week or fortnight I had to attend some quite high-powered meetings in London to which James came too , as I was feeding him at the time . |
| 24 | It 's something that Niki plays down in his book , but I know from others who were in touch with him at the time , that the mental effort and courage required were tremendous . |
| 25 | It had meant nothing to him at the time , but now … |
| 26 | ‘ We tried to sign Chris Waddle , but it was not right for him at the time . |
| 27 | ‘ We tried to sign Chris Waddle , but it was not right for him at the time , we went for Peter Beardsley , but it was not right for Everton . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Descartes never questioned his beliefs about how things seemed to him at the time ; he asked instead how he could know other things , such as the existence of God or of a material world . |