Example sentences of "[adv] to the time when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's have a look first all er just step back slightly to the time when the sales exec goes round to sign up the estate agent . |
| 2 | Mr and Mrs Wormwood looked forward enormously to the time when they could pick their little daughter off and flick her away , preferably into the next county or even further than that . |
| 3 | ‘ Looking back now to the time when the site for these premises was chosen , and realising the state of affairs existing in this type of works , it is surprising to me that this process was ever permitted on this site at all ( being figuratively speaking within arms length of the dwellings ) . |
| 4 | The Second period is that which starts from the beginning of life and reaches onward to the time when the law of the survival of the fittest with its ruthlessness could no longer serve the aspirations towards increasing happiness that were beginning to creep into the dawning consciousness of primitive man . |
| 5 | But in the meantime the food awaited her attention , and the two rafts containing eighteen hungry men were riding the white foam , every minute drawing closer to the time when they must be fed . |
| 6 | ‘ The work of the diocese will go on and we look forward to the time when he can be back with us and working amongst us again . ’ |
| 7 | Look forward to the time when you rocking horse is all finished and you will be able to stand back and watch your children or grandchildren happily riding this beautiful heirloom that you have created , and you will be able to say with pride and satisfaction , ‘ I made that . ’ |
| 8 | Held , allowing the appeal , that on its true construction section 9(4) of the Evidence ( Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions ) Act 1975 was a paramount provision which limited all other provisions of that Act and related back to the time of the events in respect of which evidence was sought rather than forward to the time when such evidence would be given ; that since all the evidence sought from the retired Crown servant related to matters which had come to his notice in his capacity as an officer or servant of the Crown , section 9(4) applied and the court had no jurisdiction to make the order for his examination ( post , p. 197F–G , H ) . |
| 9 | There were , however , some lusty singers among his parishioners , and he looked forward to the time when it might prove possible to fill the chancel with an unsurpliced choir . |
| 10 | I looked forward to the time when I could speak well enough to talk to them . |
| 11 | ‘ You have to look ahead to the time when you leave football , and I wanted to prepare for a life in sport and leisure management , ’ he said . |
| 12 | She is full of admiration for the care and attention she is receiving at the hospital but is already looking ahead to the time when she is strong enough to go on to a convalescent home . |
| 13 | To look backward to the time when first the morning stars sang together ! ’ |