Example sentences of "[vb past] be a time when " in BNC.
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| 1 | The professionalized academic critic wanted to forget that there had been a time when criticism was part of literature ; and the belief that criticism or theory could be literature in themselves was perhaps part of the process of exorcizing other values and attitudes . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was years since he 'd been there , but there had been a time when he 'd gone every week , sometimes twice . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There had been a time when Julius Landor could reduce her to a whimpering wreck , when his slow-burning but frightening temper roused itself to life . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There had been a time when , like everyone else at the school , she had said she wanted to be a professional dancer , or an actress , or anything else that was exciting and totally different from working in a bank or being a dairy farmer 's wife . |
| 9 | 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 . |