Example sentences of "[verb] a time [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet she felt bound to warn , ‘ But , there has to come a time soon when you must let go of the past … or go to Richard and Beth with all that is in your heart . ’ |
| 2 | But I knew there 'd have to come a time when I broke the news to him that the education system and I had split up . |
| 3 | We 've grown up with it , there 's got to come a time when we say ‘ put a halt to it ’ , but er I do n't know what we 'll do then |
| 4 | If the 1930 agreement had taken effect fully , there could never have come a time when the freehold to the remainder of No. 263–265 would be left without a road frontage . |
| 5 | ‘ Some people needed a lot of encouragement when it first opened , but now it 's hard to find a time when it is n't crowded . ’ |
| 6 | The reason the programme 's taken so long , was to find a time when he 's available . |
| 7 | Jewels worn in remembrance of dear ones lost , or exchanged between lovers as tokens , were extremely popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries , although the ubiquitous lockets containing tresses of hair were perhaps the least subtle of these keepsakes. fit a time when the language of such things was far better understood than it is today , hearts and flowers , birds and beasts and a multitude of other symbols were incorporated into jewellery design to signify romantic love , to represent those sentiments and virtues which were the major preoccupation of the day . |
| 8 | Although Coleman still had qualms about the misuse of media credentials , foreseeing a time when immigration officials around the world would automatically assume that any visiting journalist was a spy , it would have been hypocritical to complain . |
| 9 | I think you need to set a time actually . |
| 10 | As we have seen , the Marxist perspective on stratification and inequality envisages a time when class inequality can and will eventually disappear , after the destruction of capitalism and its replacement by a new socioeconomic order . |
| 11 | The cuckoo can not lay its egg while the future foster-parent is in residence ; it has to pick a time when the parent bird has left the nest — and the eggs — so that it can perform its surreptitious substitution . |
| 12 | Forester had delivered the certificate and the other papers by hand to the country police station ; it was n't much more than a converted garage alongside the local man 's house , and it had n't been difficult to pick a time when it had been unattended . |
| 13 | Unless it was sentimental to want to remember a time when he and this girl had not been strangers to each other . |
| 14 | ‘ Whether he does , or whether he does n't — I can assure you that that has nothing to do with the quality of my work ! ’ she hissed , barely able to remember a time when she had felt quite so angry . |
| 15 | But there came a time when that struggle could no longer increase life enjoyment as far as the adult population was concerned . |
| 16 | Though I jumped too when he cracked the whip , there came a time when I refused to jump as high as the others . |
| 17 | And then there came a time when he felt a pride in the deed , in the courage , the audacity , the resolution which had made it possible . |
| 18 | There came a time when he doubled back after the others had gone on the trail taking their cyan hardness with them . |
| 19 | There came a time when she thought that if she did it once more , he would burst of an apoplexy . |
| 20 | Mr Wolski could not help remembering a time when he had been a fugitive outside the fences of Sobibor in the scrubland of the Parczew Forest . |
| 21 | To celebrate a time when artists were also jewellers , we have selected some examples of their work-and of the work they helped to inspire . |
| 22 | It is the life force within us that is the cause of that denial , which makes it impossible for the healthy to imagine a time when it will have faded , which makes them tremble at the thought that , were voluntary euthanasia ever legalized , abuse would inevitably follow , and when they became old and ill , they would be at risk of being put away . |
| 23 | British pubs and restaurants should follow it without hesitation and who knows , we might all see a time when smoking is considered a bad habit of the past . |
| 24 | If you ca n't easily remember this , just close your eyes for a moment and recall a time when you felt really well . |
| 25 | Recalling a time when I had had a staff of seventeen under me , and knowing how not so long ago a staff of twenty-eight had been employed here at Darlington Hall , the idea of devising a staff plan by which the same house would be run on a staff of four seemed , to say the least , daunting . |
| 26 | Just as Maggie could not remember a time before there was Fenna , and a time before there was the big house and the three women living in it , so she could not remember a time when there was not the constant tug of tension between her grandmother and her mother . |
| 27 | He can never remember a time when he did n't have a detective to guard him , or private cars , planes or trains to transport him . |
| 28 | Gedge can not remember a time when he did not want to be in a pop group . |
| 29 | And I ca n't remember a time when he said , ‘ Do n't play that ; play this . ’ |
| 30 | Dinah Asshe could not remember a time when she had not enjoyed dressing up . |