Example sentences of "[verb] [art] time had come " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had previously limited her expression of that disapproval to hints , and to glancing remarks ; now , clearly , she had decided the time had come to be more open . |
| 2 | ‘ When our family shareholders decided the time had come to sell the company , they offered to sell it to the management team if we could match the price a trade bidder could pay . |
| 3 | One afternoon , a week later , I decided the time had come to stop dithering like a Victorian maiden and to write to Bill , when I got off at ten that night , asking if no news was good news . |
| 4 | Late in the afternoon , I decided the time had come to go . |
| 5 | She decided the time had come to leave the bordello , and seek lodgings somewhere in the vicinity of the Pont du Sevres . |
| 6 | 10 years ago BBC1 's Last of the Summer Wine was going strong as Foggy and Clegg decided the time had come to replace Compo 's well-worn trousers . |
| 7 | A few moments later he shivered again , sneezed and decided the time had come to return to his mates and forget it . |
| 8 | Then , just over two years later , John announced at the AGM ( which we use as an opportunity to set spiritual and practical goals for the year to come ) that he felt the time had come for church number three . |
| 9 | There were certainly those who felt the time had come to end the war , a courageous stance in view of the Imam 's known determination to keep going . |
| 10 | Constance knew the time had come to face the music and speak to Nora . |
| 11 | He knew the time had come to head directly north along the western coast and investigate Cape Wrath at last . |
| 12 | ‘ He thought the time had come for me to have a car , and very kindly provided me with one . |
| 13 | But many Americans thought the time had come for a political change to the safer conservatism of the Republican Party . |
| 14 | Dr Myerscough said : ‘ I have tried to put myself in the consultant 's shoes in this situation and I think his apparent instinct that he thought the time had come to induce labour was correct . ’ |
| 15 | COLIN Montgomerie experienced the torture chamber of Baltusrol for the first time yesterday and insisted the time had come for Europe to demolish America 's stranglehold on the U.S. Open . |
| 16 | Mr Clarke 's remarks followed a call by John Major for a public campaign against lawlessness in which he said the time had come to ‘ understand a little less and condemn a little more ’ . |
| 17 | Erm but erm come the time had come for for the fair let's say the the the Spring fair . |
| 18 | Mr Hurd said he opposed military action , but conceded the time had come where he could ‘ imagine armed action against Serbia to prevent a general Balkan war ’ . |