Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [conj] the time " in BNC.

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1	It is unsure of its policies , and has been slow to recruit members and persuade them that the time for talks has come .
2	But I was told that since I was so keen to have these things I had better think about how we would use them when the time came .
3	But the U.S. has space and a welcome for even more of us : with travel and tourism its third-largest retail industry , the ailing American economy can not afford to leave it up to our own tour firms to persuade us that the time — and price — is right .
4	You 'll learn all I can tell you when the time comes and not a moment sooner .
5	Once he had Garry back with Berenice he would n't give a thought to the Adams twins and she would forget him and the time she had spent hunting Garry and her sister through the Northumberland countryside .
6	It would have been much more subtle just to have allowed his wife to demonstrate it when the time came and then to turn it into a talking point . ’
7	But if he could not persuade her when the time came to move , Jean-Paul could .
8	There is no question here that PW acted completely above board , but it strikes me that the time has come to consider whether the profession 's rules and regulations on reporting to external authorities are not too restrictive .
9	It was this approach that Spaniards were reminded of on 31 March 1947 , as they listened to Franco 's reedy voice on the radio , telling them that the time had come to " confront the ultimate definition of [ their ] State , inseparably linked to the statute of succession in its highest echelons " .
10	Knox was invited to return ; but when he reached Dieppe , he found messages telling him that the time was not ripe .
11	‘ The senator obviously just wants us to drown his children so they ca n't embarrass him when the time comes to run for President , ’ she told me next morning .
12	Well I will ask you when the time comes .

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