Example sentences of "be a time when [pers pn] " 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 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There 's never been a time when you 've nearly split up ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was years since he 'd been there , but there had been a time when he 'd gone every week , sometimes twice . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Rarely in Rover 's history has there been a time when it has done so many things so well as now . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I suppose there must have been a time when it was n't like this ? ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | For some families breakfast can be a time when they are on a very short fuse and tensions abound , so if you can persuade her to have hers on a tray in bed , many problems may be avoided . |
| 16 | We do n't even have sex on holiday , when from what some of my friends with young children say , that seems to be a time when they catch up . |
| 17 | In many cases , people owe money to a number of creditors and like Jeff , they do n't think there 'll be a time when they ca n't pay their debts . |
| 18 | 1993 could well be a time when you can no longer put up with frustrating dead-ends . |
| 19 | I believe that there was never a time when you did n't exist and will never be a time when you cease to exist . |
| 20 | But it just did n't seem to be a time when you could er get an entry . |
| 21 | In a country where infant mortality is low , it is expected that children will live into adulthood and outlive their parents , so that there will not be a time when it seems likely that a child will die before their parents . |
| 22 | There er there used to be a time when it was fairly easy to predict what Tory motions would say . |
| 23 | I mean it 's , there must be a time when it settles . |
| 24 | They 've er they 've done fairly well there with Perhaps if it 's happen to be a time when I 'm busy Richard you might do it as vice chairman . |
| 25 | There 's a time when you have to strike hard at a decisive moment . ’ |
| 26 | Sensitive Sunday 's a time when you must tune into the needs and longings of loved ones . |
| 27 | Most of non-statutory work is giving advice to people like control , and others , which may not be purely statutory in the sense that is , but the major difference is there 's a time when it 's imposed on when we have to do it . |
| 28 | There is a time when they are expected to be looked after by family , friends and neighbours because they are too overcome to cope by themselves . |
| 29 | This , he suggests , is a time when we have witnessed the ending of the construct of what he calls , ‘ the homogeneity of man ’ which was a product of a special political climate that has now passed . |
| 30 | Nevertheless it seems to me that this is a time when we have a chance to examine the utility of A levels in their present form , a chance that may have been missed by the terms of reference of the Higginson Committee . |