Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [art] time " in BNC.
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1 | It never struck me that every time I cut my finger and the cut heals , something other than a piece of Elastoplast has rushed to the rescue . |
2 | But it seems to me that every time I 've open a newspaper over the past two or three years , Stuart Bell , the Labour MP for Middlesbrough , has been staring out at me . |
3 | There is no question here that PW acted completely above board , but it strikes me that the time has come to consider whether the profession 's rules and regulations on reporting to external authorities are not too restrictive . |
4 | It seems to me that the time , effort , initiative , and determination required to complete this course are equivalent to that needed to complete a research project . |
5 | It is unsure of its policies , and has been slow to recruit members and persuade them that the time for talks has come . |
6 | His response is to impress upon them that the time is not now , that only God knows when it will be , and in the meantime they are to concentrate on the number-one task of world-wide witness for which the Holy Spirit would equip them ( Acts 1:8 ) . |
7 | It was this approach that Spaniards were reminded of on 31 March 1947 , as they listened to Franco 's reedy voice on the radio , telling them that the time had come to " confront the ultimate definition of [ their ] State , inseparably linked to the statute of succession in its highest echelons " . |
8 | It was a verdict which had fired many a nationalistically minded but hitherto passive young Irishman to join the IRA , and it had prodded Denis into convincing himself that the time had come for him to stop wavering and take an active role in his country 's struggle . |
9 | He politely declined to pose for pictures with Nesta and added : ‘ I have nothing else to say today … but I will say plenty when the time comes . ’ |
10 | He will find out for himself when the time is right . ’ |
11 | She and Uncle Matthew had agreed , in spite of her strong disapproval of Ruth 's plans for the future , that she should live with them until the time came to leave . |
12 | really odd dream once yeah I dreamt , I dreamt this tube of , tube of toothpaste was trying to get me and every time it hit me I lost |
13 | Speakers are handicapped when the main entrance doors are behind them and every time they open , the audience 's eyes swivel in that direction and attention is gone . |
14 | You ca n't use them cos every time you use them you get |
15 | The difficulty is that the bacteria is notorious for changing itself and every time scientists think they are on the verge of a development the bacteria becomes resistant . |
16 | The reason destroying it now would be no solution , he wrote , is that what sickens me is not the object itself but the time and thought I have put into it . |
17 | You 'll learn all I can tell you when the time comes and not a moment sooner . |
18 | Well I will ask you when the time comes . |
19 | ‘ I see now why you said I could give it back to you when the time was right . ’ |
20 | " Never mind , Audrey and I will give you a pile of disposable nappies or something when the time comes . " |
21 | Knox was invited to return ; but when he reached Dieppe , he found messages telling him that the time was not ripe . |
22 | if you 're the only one in house he follows you and you 're looking for him and every time you 're moving around he 's moving around behind you so you ca n't find him . |
23 | Once he had Garry back with Berenice he would n't give a thought to the Adams twins and she would forget him and the time she had spent hunting Garry and her sister through the Northumberland countryside . |
24 | But if he could not persuade her when the time came to move , Jean-Paul could . |
25 | ‘ The senator obviously just wants us to drown his children so they ca n't embarrass him when the time comes to run for President , ’ she told me next morning . |
26 | The idea that anything can last for ever is nonsense , and if that 's what happens with Kiss , then fair enough ; if it does n't mean anything more to anyone than the time the band was functioning then that 's also perfectly fine with me . ’ |
27 | The lur blowers are far more intriguing because local legend has it that every time a virgin walks past them the sound of the lur echoes round the square . ’ |
28 | ‘ Why is it that every time you open that pretty little mouth of yours a viper speaks ? ’ he said angrily . |
29 | And er Oh and if he If the time of the the er tinkers that they came round , if they came round about the time of the the pig killing they would look for the piece of bacon . |
30 | ‘ There have been constant jokes about it but we quite like it because every time our names are called out we see a row of smiling faces . |