Example sentences of "[verb] that the time had come " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , the President believed that the time had come to use the great power of the USA not only to end the war but to ensure , through a place at the Peace Conference , that he could bring about a " just peace " . |
| 2 | Even before the blazer , I had very reluctantly decided that the time had come to visit my doctor . |
| 3 | My Lords , I have long thought that the time had come to change the self-imposed judicial rule that forbade any reference to the legislative history of an enactment as an aid to its interpretation . |
| 4 | In view of all this , he might finally decide that the time had come to give up further arguing and accept what each of us has told him . |
| 5 | Taking advantage of this situation , Napoleon decided that the time had come to redraw the map of Italy , which , since 1815 , had been either directly or indirectly ruled by Austria . |
| 6 | It all stated when Jamie Spence 's regular Tour caddie decided that the time had come to marry his sweetheart . |
| 7 | When Largo Caballero resisted Communist pressure to dissolve the POUM and arrest its leaders , the Communists decided that the time had come to get rid of him . |
| 8 | Jacqui was on one end of a double-headed dildo when she decided that the time had come to turn Kattina in . |
| 9 | Bevin , impressed by Soviet intransigence during the foreign ministers ' conference at the end of 1947 , decided that the time had come for a more overt display of Western unity . |
| 10 | He pleaded that the time had come for government bona fides to be accepted at face value and reiterated , emphatically , that the fact that all South Africans should have the vote was no longer a point that required further discussion . |
| 11 | She could not offer advice as a grandmother , despite her long experience of children ; and now her own children had ceased to confide in her ‘ because they felt that the time had come when I ought to be ‘ spared ’ every possible worry . |
| 12 | These architects fervently felt that the time had come for a new type of public building . |
| 13 | However , Furness and District reluctantly concluded that the time had come for the introduction of an annual limit ; whilst Cardiff and District suggested that the question of re-insuring the compensation fund liability be reconsidered . |
| 14 | Lucy knew that the time had come for her to admit to the reason for her visit . |
| 15 | To one who had waited so long , this letter would scarcely have indicated that the time had come for him to take vigorous action on his own . |
| 16 | Polls suggested that up to one in four Conservative MPs wanted her to go before the next general election : growing numbers of backbenchers were prepared openly to declare that the time had come for her to call it a day . |
| 17 | Branson wrote to Powell , agreeing that the time had come for a separation . |
| 18 | Two minutes later I could hardly hear myself , so I smiled ( less warmly , I admit ) and suggested that the time had come for walkies . |