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

No	Sentence
1	He said at the time , ‘ A dancer 's time is short .
2	‘ The most disturbing feature of the underground repository is not simply that an accident might occur , ’ he said at the time , ‘ but that if it did , we might never know until its consequences reached the surface — maybe decades later . ’
3	‘ I can see no reason why I should n't keep my job because I have not committed any offence under military law , ’ he said at the time .
4	‘ The recession gave us a window of opportunity , ’ he said at the time .
5	‘ It was n't the litigation we would lose that was the problem , ’ he said at the time .
6	‘ We realised very early on that there was something very wrong with Helen , ’ he said at the time .
7	he said at the time that as soon as his international career was over that he could go back to Blackheath and see them right .
8	‘ I usually grow it like a sheepdog to keep me warm in winter , ’ he said at the time .
9	‘ I do n't like the way they want to make the film , ’ he said at the time .
10	‘ She 'll start off , ’ he said at the time , ‘ with an appealing look like this [ his eyes open wide and his jaw drops ] and you can see her thinking : ‘ No , I did that yesterday .
11	‘ I have a little prayer I say three times before I come down , ’ he said at the time .
12	As he said at the time : ‘ I 've never been seen naked in any bed , never .
13	He said by the time of the next election it would no longer be possible to cancel Trident .
14	I du n no , they get in on a Friday night he said by the time we 've cashed up , when I got there they 'd got this round coffee table in the middle of the room similar to that brass one what I 'm but it 's an old tin thing it is sitting in the middle of the room there was a little bag of money there a little bag of money there and a bag of money there that 's Geoff 's money that 's petrol money that 's five hundred pound .