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

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1 Despite her depression she occupied herself with office tasks , and , although there were times when she dabbed at a tear , she reminded herself that she must prepare for the time when she would never see Silas again .
2 Traditionally the period of the Hundred Years War has been regarded as the time when the crown of France made great steps forward towards the achievement of a policy of centralisation begun under the Capetians some two centuries earlier .
3 This period could be regarded as the time when our service began to emerge from a kind of amateur status to that of a more professional one .
4 ‘ Because you ca n't wait for the time when you 'll be a married woman ? ’
5 Growth in the size of the legal profession occurred during the time when consumer movements were coming of age .
6 I am reminded of the time when we were leaving Italy after a while in the Dolomites and spent all our Italian cash in the last café making a phone call , only to find that the café owner was adding a surcharge to the bill .
7 Dear Guitarist Catching Nirvana 's ‘ performance ’ on the recent MTV Video Music Awards I was reminded of the time when , as a youngster , the guitar-smashing exploits of my heroes — the likes of Townshend and Hendrix — left a bad taste in my mouth .
8 Having discussed certain arguments relating to the time when the property passed ( which were relevant to an additional and unsound argument put forward by the insurers ) , he continued , at p. 280 :
9 The epoch of blue shift is usually confined to the time when the object is still inside the event horizon .
10 With few exceptions , most people would wish to have a holiday of at leapt two weeks in the summer period which for some may also be confined to the time when children are on holiday from school or when the local factory is closed .
11 In Shell UK v Lostock Garage Ltd [ 1976 ] 1 WLR 1187 Lord Denning MR explained what he thought was meant by the proposition that reasonableness is to be considered at the time when the contract is made : If the terms impose a restraint which is unreasonable in the sense that it may work unfairly in circumstances which may reasonably be anticipated , the courts will refuse to enforce the restraint : but it will not hold it to be unenforceable simply because it might work unfairly in certain exceptional circumstances outside the reasonable expectation of the parties at the time of making the agreement .
12 Can you let me know if you have any interest in such a promotion which would be best organised around the time when the bills are going out .
13 They were told by Jesus not to speculate about the time when God would bring in the kingdom in all its fullness , but , once they had received the Holy Spirit , they were to witness to Jesus in Jerusalem , Judaea , Samaria , and throughout the world ( Acts 1:8 ) .
14 Agents were pondering whether they should n't ‘ hang on to thee rights , and wait for the time when they 're equipped to sell them , ’ as conference chairman Tony Feldman put it later .
15 If a creditor is owed a debt not payable at the date of the bankruptcy order , he may nonetheless prove for the same ( r 6.114 ) but subject to an adjustment of his dividend where payment of dividend is made before the time when the debt would have become payable .
16 All that came from the time when Central News was transmitted from Birmingham .
17 The term ‘ peppercorn rent ’ related to the time when the spice commanded a high price , although such a charge nowadays is generally disregarded .
18 Although the Supreme Court had ruled that amendments should be ratified within a reasonable period in order to reflect a contemporaneous consensus — the time limit most usually accepted was seven years — no such restriction had applied at the time when the amendment was first sent to the states for consideration .
19 This transition in the comparator output is used to generate the position detector pulse [ Fig. 7.12/1 ) ] , which occurs at the time when winding C should be switched on and therefore can be used directly as a step command .
20 It was built at the time when local builders possessed that magic formula for rightness of scale .
21 And so he got space to build a house and they began it began this part in thirteen sixty although it 's clear that there was an earlier house here , perhaps built at the time when they first got the back in the eleven seventies .
22 When contemplating the history of the palazzo you have to wonder whether there might not have been some truth in an ancient prophecy made at the time when Alessi began work on the building .
23 Such application may be made at the time when the order is made ; if not then applied for , the practice required , at least in some courts , is that the applicant should certify in writing that he has notified the other party of the intended application .
24 If the house was formerly in the sole name of the husband it would be quite appropriate for the wife 's solicitors to insist on a full abstract of title commencing with a good root of title ( although in practice it seems to be accepted that the title was properly investigated at the time of the husband 's purchase ) ; but in the case of a house already in joint names it is thought that this could be dispensed with , the wife 's solicitor assuming that a proper investigation of title to the property was made at the time when the house was purchased by the husband and the wife .
25 that 's right , erm she had said at the time when they had raised all this money that er mostly gon na be spent on erm
26 This brochure is about : how individual company directors , partners , self-employed businessmen , and people in the professions can provide for the time when they stop working .
27 Waiting for the time when profiles run .
28 Mr Jones , the landlord of The Two Pheasants , was organising a chain of water carriers from the tap in his bar , and Albert Piggott , stomach pains forgotten , had trundled out an archaic fire-fighting contraption which had been kept in the vestry since the Second World War and had never been used since the time when a small incendiary bomb had set light to the tassels of the bell ropes , and an adjacent pile of copies of Stainer 's ‘ Crucifixion ’ , in 1942 .
29 It took Stephanie some time to realise that she always refused what was offered at the time when it was offered , whether out of a curious notion of good manners or out of cussedness Stephanie was never wholly sure .
30 This happened at the time when the long bow was finally succeeded by the musket and pike .
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