Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the time when [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhere between the time when they had fallen into an exhausted sleep and when she had woken to this grey dawn , all the joy and magic of what they had shared had faded , and she had been overcome by doubts . |
| 2 | In December 1927 , while he was in the midst of his darkness , and in june 1928 when he was better , the House of Commons rejected a proposal , carried by large majorities in the Church bodies , for a new prayer book , which was the old prayer book , from the age of King Charles II , modestly revised in a pastoral spirit long after the time when it needed revision . |
| 3 | ‘ We were about twenty minutes altogether from the point where we realized they could n't get us down to the time when we stepped on to the roof . |
| 4 | Sometimes a feature of the Constitution is discerned as such only at the time when it has just ceased to have much relevance . |
| 5 | The timeliness of the Minor award in these terms was noted by the head of history : The project came along at the time when we were thinking about cross-curricular developments anyway , and the school had been concerned about the particular pattern of study skills and how they could be extended and coordinated . |
| 6 | If your bitch is not neutered , you should be aware of the possibility of this behavioural change occurring soon after the time when she would normally have given birth , just over two months after her last heat . |
| 7 | I was particularly impressed by the way you managed to organise all the available services so efficiently — just at the time when we were beginning to wonder how we 'd manage . ’ |
| 8 | It could also tie up members of the C E C , the General Secretary , the Regional Secretary , the President , Officers and many others in internal wrangles new union just at the time when we need to look outward in the next two or three years . |
| 9 | Just at the time when they should have been giving most to each other , he had turned away from her , and in its way that had been almost as painful as the loss of her mother . |
| 10 | To break up the Union now would diminish our influence for good in the world , just at the time when it is most needed . |
| 11 | For the first time population could increase with a declining grain price and a less than commensurate food output , subsisting on grain imports paid for by manufactures ; ‘ It is one of the most striking ironies of intellectual history that Malthus should have fashioned his analysis just at the time when it was about to cease to be applicable to the country in which he lived ’ ( Wrigley 1986 ) . |
| 12 | In accountancy , for example , by the time you 've done your training and spent some years establishing yourself , you then have your children just at the time when you 're supposed to be going all out for partnership . |
| 13 | On the facts the accused was guilty at the time when the label was swapped , not at the time when he removed the item from the shelf , intending to switch the label . |
| 14 | Mr and Mrs Wormwood looked forward enormously to the time when they could pick their little daughter off and flick her away , preferably into the next county or even further than that . |
| 15 | ( 2 ) … in relation to an institution in respect of which a payment falls to be made under section 58(2) above any reference in this Act to a depositor 's protected deposit is a reference to the liability of the institution to him in respect of — ( a ) the principal amount of each sterling deposit which was made by him with a United Kingdom office of the institution before the making of the administration order and which under the terms on which it was made is or becomes due or payable while the order is in force ; and ( b ) accrued interest on any such deposit up to the time when it is or becomes due and payable as aforesaid ; but so that the total liability of the institution to him in respect of such deposits does not exceed £20,000 . |
| 16 | Right from the time when you were only a kid ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Looking back on the time when I was really big , around 1979 , I was the saddest and most miserablest I 've ever been . |
| 18 | She wears little make-up for work and says : ‘ It goes back to the time when I started in the job . |
| 19 | Looking back to the time when she could n't find reverse on her company car , Alison contrasted this with her new job responsibilities : ‘ Now I 'm driving over 2,500 miles a month , much of it spent on the M25 . |
| 20 | The logical crisis went back to the time when he first started to read philosophy as an undergraduate and related to his reading of the English Idealist philosophers , as well as to his return ( for the purposes of passing his exams , and later as a tutor ) to the English empiricists of the eighteenth century . |
| 21 | Although I would have kept all the notes and drafts and I could , therefore , reconstruct how a poem is written , it 's my experience that once it 's been written it 's very hard for me to imagine back to the time when it was n't written . |
| 22 | And we go way back — way , way back , back to the time when you could still buy mono records , when kiwi fruit were yet to be devised , when the khaki-clad representative of the Automobile Association would salute the passing motorist , when a packet of Gold Flake cost a groat and a half and you still had change for a flagon of mead . |
| 23 | And you know , for you and I , so often , imagine , think back to the time when you did not know Jesus Christ how easy it was to blame God for this and for that , if there 's a God of love in heaven why does n't he do something about it ? |
| 24 | The theological justification behind such an approach ( not that I had necessarily thought this out at the time when I was a member of the church ) must surely be that God 's will must be held to be one with what is good , and therefore what Christianity proclaims can not differ from human ethical goods . |
| 25 | You are also preparing them well for the time when they will be outside your jurisdiction for ever . |
| 26 | ‘ ( 1 ) … in relation to an institution in respect of which a payment falls to be made under section 58(1) above any reference in this Act to a depositor 's protected deposit is a reference to the total liability of the institution to him immediately before the time when it becomes insolvent , limited to a maximum of £20,000 , in respect of the principal amounts of and accrued interest on sterling deposits made with United Kingdom offices of the institution . |
| 27 | Although some of these may have been cases of a genuine change of religious commitment , in many I was given the strong impression that these were people who had come to the church regularly at the time when they were building their political careers but who had subsequently fallen away and now professed no strong denominational attachment . |
| 28 | Yes she had her aunt was a widow there at the time when she came to and she just lived about a year . |
| 29 | But in the meantime the food awaited her attention , and the two rafts containing eighteen hungry men were riding the white foam , every minute drawing closer to the time when they must be fed . |
| 30 | I looked forward to the time when I could speak well enough to talk to them . |