Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I like to go bird watching when I get the time . ’ |
| 2 | When I er when I get the time . |
| 3 | I thought of the stack of dirty crocks to tackle after tea , of pictures and furniture that were once polished every week , and now got done when I had the time . |
| 4 | when I had the time , did them all tension and set , you know , but erm , as you say now , they probably cost you about fifty pound a go every time they go away |
| 5 | As I found when I took the time to listen to parents and hear what they said , the views advanced did not always fit the latest fashion or an approved passage in a book on sociology . |
| 6 | My hobbies , when I have the time , are riding my horse and walking the dogs with Freddie . ’ |
| 7 | Just a minute … ’ and finally , ‘ Well , I expect we 'll see you when you 've the time , ’ as if she only visited them twice a year . |
| 8 | The heroes you have kind of linger on from a prior period when only a few records passed through your life , when you had the time to get fixated , spend weeks living inside a record . |
| 9 | Not when you you 've got It 's different when you have the time though . |
| 10 | When she felt the time was right , she took the cushions from the couch , arranged them on the floor and asked me to lie face down . |
| 11 | Belinda was amazed when she noted the time on an antique clock that ticked on the mantelpiece over the elaborately restored fireplace near where they sat . |
| 12 | When she feels the time is right , and I feel the time is right , then I 'll stop . |
| 13 | When she has the time she loves to spend hours in her kitchen , although quick cooking is the norm . |
| 14 | Robert McNamara 's measure for ‘ assured destruction ’ – 20 to 33 per cent loss of population , 50 to 70 per cent loss of industry — stand in some contrast to the USSR 's wartime losses — 12 to 15 per cent loss of population and 50 per cent loss of production — particularly when we consider the time over which these losses took place . |
| 15 | The conjecture appears to gain substance when one considers the time , energy and determination invested by Green , as the WEA 's General Secretary , in the resolution of the District 's difficulties with the Cambridge Board 's rural areas scheme . |
| 16 | She played with the children in their street when they had the time which was n't often and with diplomatic children , a cosmopolitan lot , like mine , only that Constanza was gang-leader . |
| 17 | When they get the time he 'll be , turn up sometime . |
| 18 | Many Home Helps become very fond of the elderly people they visit , often doing all kinds of extra jobs for them when they have the time , and the moral support they give to lonely old people is invaluable . |
| 19 | His head was full of sentences he was going to write to Hilary when he had the time to put pen to paper : I may remind you that I never asked you for a penny towards the summer gas bill … do you think I am made of stone ? … surely I deserve better consideration … who listened for hours when you had that disagreement at Bromley over Fortescue upstaging you in She Stoops to Conquer … have you forgotten that it was I , when your mother had her second stroke , who travelled with her in the ambulance and went back on the bus to collect her plaster replica of the Sacred Heart ? |