Example sentences of "[verb] the time had come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had previously limited her expression of that disapproval to hints , and to glancing remarks ; now , clearly , she had decided the time had come to be more open . |
| 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 | ‘ He thought the time had come for me to have a car , and very kindly provided me with one . |
| 4 | But many Americans thought the time had come for a political change to the safer conservatism of the Republican Party . |
| 5 | COLIN Montgomerie experienced the torture chamber of Baltusrol for the first time yesterday and insisted the time had come for Europe to demolish America 's stranglehold on the U.S. Open . |
| 6 | Mr Clarke 's remarks followed a call by John Major for a public campaign against lawlessness in which he said the time had come to ‘ understand a little less and condemn a little more ’ . |
| 7 | Erm but erm come the time had come for for the fair let's say the the the Spring fair . |