Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A forty-year madness , he had called it , one which had laid waste the best years of her young life ; yet he was back in the thick of his obsession now , and so elated by his own recent progress that he lacked the time to ask about her own . |
| 4 | He knows that tomorrow he has to tell Potter that he needs the time off again . |
| 5 | To Charles he was an indispensable source of wisdom and experience and he relished the time spent in his company . |
| 6 | When I went to that rodeo with Jerry and I was n't home until after midnight , Harry did n't even ask me why I was so late — and he knew the time because he 'd been down to see if Islay 's foal was better . |
| 7 | If Jewish control could not be challenged constitutionally it would have to be done by acts of Steel ; and he saw the time approaching when , like the mayor of Bethlehem , he would have to arm his son against the Jews . |
| 8 | He returned to England in mid-September but then , to add to his physical woes , he suffered an attack of arthritis : it required massage and he resented the time he had to spend travelling to and from the masseur . |
| 9 | Not sure , I must ask her where he does he goes to a Marks where they always have every possible man 's suit that Marks make and and he takes the time to buy two or even three because he does n't get that much time for shopping . |
| 10 | The general opinion seems to be that since the bastard 's decided to stop shooting people , he can remain anonymous , stay at large , enjoy life and freedom , and laugh up his sleeve at an incompetent police force until he decides the time has come for a little more high-velocity fun . ’ |
| 11 | At least he would have hot water that night when he returned home — if he had the time to return home . |
| 12 | There is no reason why a professor of history , say , should not also manage a family business if he has the time and energy . |
| 13 | He 's a very aggressive batsman , but he finds the time to be a great encourager of his partners , and Phil Bainbridge is convinced that he 's never run faster than when they were in together against Lancashire . ’ |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | Nathaniel Sherman peered at his watch , his face puckering in concentration as he calculated the time necessary to allow the buffalo to move into the most favourable range . |