Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [that] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Painful though it was , she declared that the time would soon come when she would feel it necessary to inspect America for herself . |
| 2 | Jacqui was on one end of a double-headed dildo when she decided that the time had come to turn Kattina in . |
| 3 | And , when she glanced at her watch , she saw that the time was thirty-two minutes past three . |
| 4 | It was football 's Joe Mercer who said that the time not to be old is when you lose because age is such a convenient scapegoat . |
| 5 | Now about four or five years ago , we felt that the time was right to promote our involvement with industry and commerce rather more vigorously . |
| 6 | They felt that the time was ripe for a new approach . |
| 7 | She could not offer advice as a grandmother , despite her long experience of children ; and now her own children had ceased to confide in her ‘ because they felt that the time had come when I ought to be ‘ spared ’ every possible worry . |
| 8 | He argued that the time was now ripe for the application of the positivist method to social phenomena and for the establishment of sociology , a term he seems to have invented . |
| 9 | As seen above , the accession of George I provoked widespread unrest throughout much of England and Wales , and given the extensive discontent in Scotland , it seemed that the time might be ripe for a Jacobite rebellion . |
| 10 | In 1942 his son , then a medical student , urged Waksman senior to isolate strains of Actinomyces active against human tubercle bacilli , but he replied that the time had not come yet . |
| 11 | He thought that the time had perhaps come to do something about Lorrimer . |
| 12 | Robert was not envious ; he knew that the time would come when he must retire , though not yet ; and Dinah would carry on the name and the tradition . |
| 13 | But on his release and return , he knew that the time away had ruined everything . |
| 14 | He pleaded that the time had come for government bona fides to be accepted at face value and reiterated , emphatically , that the fact that all South Africans should have the vote was no longer a point that required further discussion . |