Example sentences of "[verb] the time when " in BNC.

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1 Next the program or event that you are trying to time occurs and then a very similar line records the time when it comes to and end .
2 A group of early printed books includes the Works of Cicero printed in 1569 , while even earlier is the tome of 1553 which records the time when Newcastel upon Tine annexed Gateside .
3 The choice of reference , whether it is to be to expert or arbitrator , is in any event usually made at the time of the original contract which precedes the time when the parties know whether they have an " issue to settle " or a " formulated dispute " , and they will be obliged to use whatever procedure was stipulated , unless they make some fresh agreement .
4 And er until it became the time when the thing got smaller and smaller and we finally had to do away with that place .
5 But you 've put the finishing touch to my Christmas , Linda , coming over and sparing the time when you 're so busy .
6 He admitted that it saddened him to realise that ‘ my youth is gone — not my love of life or my energy , but I mean the time when one feels so lighthearted and carefree . ’
7 She herself had forgotten the time when , long ago , she had slapped her governess 's face for rapping her fingers with a ruler .
8 Sickened by the endemic one-upmanship of a political system founded on resistance nomenklatura ( Pompidou was one of the few politicians who had not been in the resistance ) , he spoke of the need to look to the future and forget the time when ‘ Frenchmen did not love one another . ’
9 Each year the amount has gone up by inflation , and yet we see something approaching thirty thousand underspent on previous years , and here we are looking in the first year of this council to a , a , at least a five percent overspend and er , I wonder if we 've erm , excluded the time when there were n't many meetings at the beginning if we would n't have seen a considerably larger overspend .
10 This is the sort of thing we all get to talking about when the beer 's flowing , or to pass the time when we 're 4–0 down at home to Norwich .
11 She is the organizing principle of the female , tying the bonds of love , weaving the pattern of daily life , and foreseeing the time when the last threads must be snipped .
12 She had gazed petulantly at a mantelpiece empty of deckle-edged cards , remembering the time when she had never wanted for an escort or a party .
13 He forsaw the time when steam would invade every domain — ’
14 Because of the fluctuating nature of the condition strict criteria were required for defining the time when the fluid ceased to persist ; when type B tympanograms changed to type A , C1 , or C2 ; and when an observation was stopped .
15 And then she recalled the time when she 'd just started her training , and one of her friends had fallen madly in love with a houseman , a rather conceited young man named Stewart .
16 He later explained his reasons in English Farming , and Why I Turned It Up ( 1894 ) in the preface to which he wrote : ‘ I can remember the time when people used to talk to me about farming and explain how I ought to go about it .
17 It is true that William Cobbett , born in 1766 , was to write , " I do not remember the time when I did not earn my living " , but he was the son of a moderately successful small farmer in a district where hop growing enabled a decent living from small acreages for a family with three sons to help work it .
18 Although , erm you know , I I can remember the time when I have not been a , quite enjoyed having bread and butter and chips .
19 Yeah that 's right no reflection on you it 's just that I 'm thinking oh I ca I just ca n't see the time when I would ever drive through a gap like that that confidently that 's all .
20 Most secondary schools have now reached double figures in their stocks of micros — but only a few years ago the authors of a book ( Howe and Ross , 1981 ) could gently suggest that ‘ we can readily envisage the time when every educational institution in the country will have access to at least one microcomputer ’ .
21 Orton 's diaries record the time when Ken and a friend called Henry came to the writer 's flat .
22 Well I think so , I think erm as long as they can go and work with children and then they 've got the time when they can leave off and come , but it 's having the whole time , well then they 've children all their life have n't they ?
23 I recall the time when Daddy , had been very ill with pernicious anaemia and had to stay indoors for quite a while .
24 In Pit-Men , Preachers and Politics ( 1974 ) Professor Robert Moore has noted that in the Deerness Valley east of Durham City many old mining families recall the time when their ancestors had rural occupations .
25 She could n't actually now pinpoint the time when she began to dislike the room , the furniture , the colour of the carpet , the curtains … the ever-changing curtains .
26 It is the opening verse of a chapter which recalls the time when God , through Moses , called the children of Israel out of Egypt .
27 He recalls the time when a promised £300,000 windfall from Stiff never materialised , so he had to sell his new house to survive .
28 True ‘ living fossils ’ are really rather rare , and the term can be applied to both simple and highly complex organisms that have outlived the time when the earth was populated with many more of their kind .
29 ‘ We have now reached the time when you become lost in the mountains until they forget you . ’
30 I remember the time when two sheepdogs were daily tethered at this bridge , one at each side , to deter sheep from wandering on the road from the open fell : a sort of canine cattle grid .
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