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1 "We must use what time we have," said Holmes.
2 We shall have time for a mouthful of dinner before we need go.
3 "Well, he drew up his own death warrant at the same time," said Lestrade.
4 They were piling up their score all the time and we were at a standstill.
5 I think it is time now that we took our friend Lestrade into our confidence.
6 Then it would be time for me to announce that I was still in the land of the living.
7 "I fancy that, for some few years, you will find your time very fully occupied," said he.
8 It burned like tinder, and by the time she reached the spot, nothing could be seen but flames.
9 It was at this time that he was sought out by Professor Moriarty, to whom for a time he was chief of the staff.
10 But I had no time to think of the danger, for another stone sang past me as I hung by my hands from the edge of the ledge.
11 The Honourable Ronald Adair was the second son of the Earl of Maynooth, at that time governor of one of the Australian colonies.
12 I rose to my feet, stared at him for some seconds in utter amazement, and then it appears that I must have fainted for the first and the last time in my life.
13 At the time of which I speak, Holmes had been back for some months, and I at his request had sold my practice and returned to share the old quarters in Baker Street.
14 He therefore murdered Adair, who at the time was endeavouring to work out how much money he should himself return, since he could not profit by his partner's foul play.
15 I have not traced these checks yet, but I have no doubt that they were banked under that name at some provincial town where Oldacre from time to time led a double existence.
16 It would strike him that in disappearing he might throw all pursuit off his track, and at the same time have an ample and crushing revenge upon his old sweetheart, if he could give the impression that he had been murdered by her only child.
17 For that reason I turned away from you this evening when you upset my books, for I was in danger at the time, and any show of surprise and emotion upon your part might have drawn attention to my identity and led to the most deplorable and irreparable results.
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