Example sentences of "he [be] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's behind the times . |
| 2 | The guy was probably dead when we tipped him into the shaft — we just assumed he was at the time though the older I got the less sure of that I was — but even if was n't , he must have been killed when he hit the bottom ; it 's thirty metres at least . |
| 3 | In 1456–8 he was certainly in England , for he made over all his property to others by letters patent ; he was at the time verger to the collegiate chapel of St Stephen , Westminster . |
| 4 | ‘ I did n't know who he was at the time , ’ Joe admits . |
| 5 | He had lost his job because the club where he played the piano had to close and , though he was after another one on the switchboard in a hospice , he was for the time being at a loose end . |
| 6 | " Possibly — though if the medical evidence about the time of death is right it 's hard to see how he could have got to where he was in the time . |