Example sentences of "been 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 | There had never been a time when they had not wrangled , and yet after his fashion he was fond of her . |
3 | There has never been a time when our farmers have been more fearful of the future . |
4 | Has there been a time when someone has helped you to see the world in a different way ? |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
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 's never been a time when you 've nearly split up ? |
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 . |
10 | It was years since he 'd been there , but there had been a time when he 'd gone every week , sometimes twice . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Rarely in Rover 's history has there been a time when it has done so many things so well as now . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | I suppose there must have been a time when it was n't like this ? ’ |
16 | If there had ever been a time when it had been a whim and not an obligation , that time was gone now ; the thing was there waiting for him , blocking his path , and there was no way round it to his manhood . |