Example sentences of "came [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laurie Mains , the All Black coach , was plainly displeased at Schuler 's decision , for it came about the time that Mains was hoping rugby league scouts might not be chasing his All Blacks in the next few months . |
| 2 | All that came from the time when Central News was transmitted from Birmingham . |
| 3 | In 1938 I was offered a programme with full rehearsal and that I accepted , though when it came to the time I asked for separate section rehearsals — first strings , then winds — which met with some opposition , particularly as the orchestra was convinced that it knew the music already . |
| 4 | David , you said that last week , and then when it came to the time |
| 5 | The origins of this transformation may be traced back into the late 19th century but the upheaval finally came at the time of Vietnam , flower-power and the campus revolutions . |
| 6 | Michel Laclotte came at the time he was working on the Musée D'Orsay . |