Example sentences of "time come for " in BNC.

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1 Nevertheless , advance he did , and so the time came for his Bar Mitzvah , at 13 years of age , by which every Jewish boy technically becomes adult ( i.e. morally responsible for his actions ) , a ‘ son of the law ’ .
2 And when the time came for the A 's big bats to show their muscle , they froze like rabbits in the spotlight of Orel Hershiser 's fastball .
3 Their economies ensured that the fleapits would remain forever fleapits , until the time came for them to close .
4 When the time came for the statement , Dr Clark could be seen on the Opposition front bench , clutching a sheaf of notes .
5 He died , and when the time came for his house to be demolished , a window from it was preserved and rebuilt in the park on a pedestal .
6 When the time came for Stalin to be removed from the atheist Pantheon as a heretic , it was done posthumously by transferring his corpse to an obscure place rather like a properly canonised saint having the procedure reversed .
7 ‘ And yet when the time came for me to go to her , I hesitated .
8 Despite publicity about their strict code of conduct , it was obvious that the rules had been broken because when the time came for the first troupe to go home , John was astounded to learn that eight out of the sixteen had married during the run and intended to remain behind and every one of the other eight was engaged .
9 Furthermore such preparation would be of value when the time came for serious sexual training .
10 When the time came for the cake to be cut , Breeze handed the knife to Susan — but her wrists were not strong enough to saw through the solid mass .
11 When the time came for Chloe to leave home , Pauline became unduly worried about her health and constantly clucked over her like a mother hen to make sure she was alright .
12 When the time came for returning the spoon , he found that part of the soft horn bowl had worn away .
13 Reading the Bible was a fascinating experience but prayer was hard , and churchgoing and worship were also something to be lived through until the time came for the sermon , which I relished .
14 When the time came for constructive criticism of my sermon , my friend Hartmut Kopsch remained resolutely silent .
15 When the time came for them to go , Stephen went with them to the buildings , to see where the greys were stabled .
16 When the time came for the baby 's baptism , Elizabeth still had not recovered her former vivacity .
17 He could only really recapture the timbre if he had laryngitis when the time came for shooting .
18 When the time came for decisions she would not deceive him .
19 Lord Robertson gave a further hand to the defence when the time came for Mr Beltrami to give evidence .
20 One of the councillors on the libraries committee took a copy of Gay News home to study so that he could n't be accused of being uninformed when the time came for him to vote for its rejection .
21 The only movement from the reader was the lifting of the hand every now and then to turn over a page , and Mrs Phelps always felt sad when the time came for her to cross the floor and say , ‘ It 's ten to five , Matilda . ’
22 When the time came for civilization on the planet of the Perks , they built war-trains , undermining engines , mole bombs .
23 When the time came for me to pay and depart , my enquiry about the cost of the meal was brushed aside .
24 The African Institution , when the time came for public agitation , was unfitted for the task because of its direction by ‘ men of rank and high position ’ .
25 When the time came for Annie to leave the convent school she was recommended for training in child welfare .
26 But when the time came for the annual bail-out , the recession-strapped Culture Ministry balked .
27 The time came for the Blackshirts to leave the cafe .
28 The decisive step had been taken , however , and the unworkability of the Homicide Act 1957 was still relatively fresh in legislative memory when the time came for Parliament to consider the continuation of abolition .
29 This , at its most exalted , represented the aspiration of Owenism ; and though few Owenites would have heard the song , when the time came for the countless host to stream in through gates of pearl , that surely is what they could have sung as they marched .
30 When the time came for the children to go home , Rabscuttle went too .
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