Example sentences of "[verb] when the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had reached the hilly avenues of Lisbon when it occurred to her that he could be worried about how she might behave when the time came for them to part . |
| 2 | A good one to start with is what happens when the time is equal to zero ? |
| 3 | ( Written when the Times ( on Saturday , 20 August 1983 , p. 2 ) depicted a 1923 20 h.p. ( body 1910 ) vintage Rolls Landaulette built for Lord Lonsdale by Hamshaw of Leicester , but spelt it ‘ Launderette ’ ) |
| 4 | So maybe that 's kept us going when the times were n't so good as they might be . |
| 5 | I 'll be contacted when the time comes . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ That is what I would like to do when the time is right . ’ |
| 7 | Britain should then join the exchange rate mechanism of the European Monetary System , which Mrs Thatcher keeps promising to do when the time is ripe . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Like when the time came at school to plan his future after he left . |
| 9 | It 'll be easy to leave when the time comes . |
| 10 | Sir Fred Catherwood , a senior Tory member of the European Parliament , said the Prime Minister 's insistence that Britain should join when the time is right had become ‘ a bit of a joke ’ . |
| 11 | We stapled a piece of blue baize around the door and , hey presto , there was a neat little portable platform which we could produce when the time came , looking incredibly efficient . |
| 12 | Unforgivably , all too often relatives who have been assured that their nearest and dearest will not suffer pain find this does not happen when the time comes . |
| 13 | This could only happen when the time was ripe , which would be when he was worthy . |
| 14 | Of course , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , there may be nothing to leave , nothing to explain , nothing to understand , even though I have prepared long enough and only started when the time was ripe , even though I began full of confidence and managed to persuade myself , for a while , that I was well under way . |
| 15 | It also helps when the time comes to break off the affair , because you can talk about the money instead of feelings and love and messy , painful stuff like that . |
| 16 | In fact , the more serious your role , the more you need to unwind and let yourself go when the time is appropriate . |
| 17 | I could n't let Rosa go when the time came to sell up . |
| 18 | Holden seemed particularly nervous , repeating his lines over and over to himself like a raw newcomer terribly afraid he might forget how to deliver when the time came . |
| 19 | She walked round the house , planning what she would take : this ornament to be packed in a shoe-box stuffed with wood-shavings and placed in the top drawer of that chest , that cane-chair to be left behind for the benefit of the Colonel 's successor , those curtains to be carefully arranged when the time came , with not more than one fold . |
| 20 | My Noble Friend is absolutely right er it is a er essential that the erm hospital does have a good discharge policy that there are community facilities to support people once they leave hospital er and My Lords we know that with some of the new procedures that are now being introduced er that is possible and that when a patient comes in for treatment , a discharge policy is worked out almost immediately so that the support services can be given when the time comes for that person to leave . |
| 21 | On the credit side , there is much for the parents as well as the teenagers to gain when the time comes for them to leave home . |