Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [art] time when " in BNC.

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1 He admitted that it saddened him to realise that ‘ my youth is gone — not my love of life or my energy , but I mean the time when one feels so lighthearted and carefree . ’
2 I recall the time when Daddy , had been very ill with pernicious anaemia and had to stay indoors for quite a while .
3 CALL ME old , call me antiquated , but I remember a time when The Railway Children were , if not quite press darlings , then at least going on the occasional date with the media .
4 It was the sort of London garden which grew London Pride and smelt of snails but there was room to play cricket or French cricket on the grass ( You ca n't have five children and a nice lawn , as my Father sagely remarked ) and I remember a time when obstacle races round the gravelled path on our bicycles was popular with my sister and me .
5 I remember the time when two sheepdogs were daily tethered at this bridge , one at each side , to deter sheep from wandering on the road from the open fell : a sort of canine cattle grid .
6 I remember the time when you and I , Mr. Speaker , had a few words because of what was happening because of the Secretary of State for Health
7 ’ Never have I known a time when farmers were more fearful of the future , and never has that fear been more justified ’ ?
8 ’ Never have I known a time when farmers were more fearful of the future , and never has that fear been more justified . ’
9 I foresee a time when there will be degrees in Community Interpreting as there are in Australia and I hope that there will be a recognition of equivalencies will allow interpreters to work in the countries of both of their languages .
10 I chose a time when I knew the Trunchbull was out of the way teaching the sixth-formers , and I put up my hand and asked to go to the bogs .
11 And then she recalled the time when she 'd just started her training , and one of her friends had fallen madly in love with a houseman , a rather conceited young man named Stewart .
12 You remember the time when Jacob wrestled all night with the angel of the Lord .
13 Having taken Joyce gently back through her childhood , we reached a time when she was just a toddler .
14 But 1951 was also the year in which the climax had not happened because the Chinese did not arrive and all the plans for increasing US assistance , in which this was a contingent but major factor , would in the end go to help the French reinforce their position in Indo-China or , at most , help them to decide the time when they might depart .
15 When migrating to the northern hemisphere they choose a time when the atmospheric pressure is falling , the temperature is rising and the winds are blowing northwards .
16 Did they represent a time when women gathered apart from men , experiencing their own primal potency , and sharing their own secrets with one another and with the pubescent girls ?
17 They represent a time when either their objects were not the same as those of the official organization , or the CCO was not enterprising enough to suit them .
18 And er until it became the time when the thing got smaller and smaller and we finally had to do away with that place .
19 He forsaw the time when steam would invade every domain — ’
20 He recalls the time when a promised £300,000 windfall from Stiff never materialised , so he had to sell his new house to survive .
21 I had been invited there by George Every , and he chose a time when Eliot would be coming up too .
22 He remembered a time when Jane had feared a duel as much as he , but now she seemed more eager to protect her money than Lord John 's life .
23 Does n't it recall the time when the church taught that our Earth was the centre of the universe , and the stars just little pinpricks of light set in the sky for our delight ( or , even more absurdly presumptuous , that the stars go out of their way to exert astrological influences on our little lives ) ?
24 It was also a hint that , while he wanted to retain ultimate control for as long as he lived , he foresaw a time when it might be possible to relinquish his personal hold on the administration of the system without it collapsing .
25 It would seem reasonable to call a drug an analgesic for a rat if it delays the time when the rat licks its feet when parked on a hot plate .
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