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

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1 He was at times ordered to aid and supervise the royal huntsmen by leading them to those parts of the forest where the game was most plentiful , o supplying them with trained hounds , and seeing that they did not drive the deer out of the forest or continue their hunting longer than their instructions warranted .
2 He was at times obsessed by his feelings for women .
3 Yardley bore all these setbacks with great dignity , afflicted as he was from time to time by a form of lumbago that almost certainly hastened his retirement .
4 He was from time to time ordered to raise money by leasing out assarts and waste lands , and by organizing and supervising sales of timber and underwood .
5 In any event , on this picture , he was from time to time spectacularly taken with a seizure of one kind or another . ’
6 He ran back to Wednesday , hoping he was in time .
7 He was in time for the last flight of the night back to Jeddah .
8 Running upstairs to the sitting-room window , he was in time to see her cross the road , staring up and down vaguely like a blind person .
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