Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [conj] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | It is unsure of its policies , and has been slow to recruit members and persuade them that the time for talks has come . |
| 3 | But I was told that since I was so keen to have these things I had better think about how we would use them when the time came . |
| 4 | You ca n't use them cos every time you use them you get |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | But the U.S. has space and a welcome for even more of us : with travel and tourism its third-largest retail industry , the ailing American economy can not afford to leave it up to our own tour firms to persuade us that the time — and price — is right . |
| 7 | You 'll learn all I can tell you when the time comes and not a moment sooner . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It would have been much more subtle just to have allowed his wife to demonstrate it when the time came and then to turn it into a talking point . ’ |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | But if he could not persuade her when the time came to move , Jean-Paul could . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 " . |
| 15 | Knox was invited to return ; but when he reached Dieppe , he found messages telling him that the time was not ripe . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | For instance , Denis Hamilton — a totally fair journalist , but an incorrigible Conservative — came to see me one day to warn me that The Times was prepared to break the newspaper silence that had until then , with the exception of Private Eye , been maintained by all news sources about her two illegitimate children . |
| 18 | Well I will ask you when the time comes . |