Example sentences of "[verb] be a time when [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There must have been a time when we did n't quarrel , when we were just content to be together . |
| 2 | Nothing very dramatic here , then , but at least he was in the buying and selling game , not a wage slave , and there can hardly have been a time when it was not easier to sell the odd pork chop or two than it was to convince an employer that he ought to buy your skills as a craftsman . |
| 3 | I suppose there must have been a time when it was n't like this ? ’ |
| 4 | For example , his eyes were necessary for the finding of food and the locating of enemies , to name but two of many purely necessary functions , but there must have been a time when he first began to enjoy the visual beauty all around him . |
| 5 | There was a feeling there had been a time when you needed both , but for the future it would help in general , and offer much better leadership if you were to create one body , and since you 're statutorily obliged to have a J C C , why not make it , actually make it work , so it meets more often , and it actually actively involves erm , er , er , er , at the political level , players at the political level . |
| 6 | It was years since he 'd been there , but there had been a time when he 'd gone every week , sometimes twice . |
| 7 | There had been a time when he had been with the then desired Jenny in the back of a car on the moor at Goathland . |
| 8 | There had been a time , a brief time , a glorious dawn , when despite her growing awareness of her own sexual failure , despite her anger and frustration , despite her own laziness and lack of commitment , there had been a time when she had been happy and hopeful and joyous . |
| 9 | There had been a time when she had stared from Crowe 's knee , before Crowe 's study fire , out at Alexander on the Long Royston terrace . |
| 10 | There had been a time when she had thought of going with Roman and dreamed of dancing held tightly in his arms , but now she doubted she would go at all . |