Example sentences of "and [adv] [art] time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , advance he did , and so the time came for his Bar Mitzvah , at 13 years of age , by which every Jewish boy technically becomes adult ( i.e. morally responsible for his actions ) , a ‘ son of the law ’ . |
| 2 | Paul would stop her now and again , alter a line , then demand that she go on reading ; and so the time passed until supper and bed , when he would cure his headaches in the customary way . |
| 3 | Anywhere outside a Communist state — and perhaps the time looks like coming when even that qualification will be superfluous — this is done by seeking to secure the largest possible return on capital . |
| 4 | But all the while he was learning and soon the time had come when he was no longer satisfied to design for others . |
| 5 | The amount of genetic difference between one animal and another , and hence the time taken to evolve , and the difficulty of evolving from one to the other , is measured as the distance in nine-dimensional space from one to the other . |
| 6 | Long years ago , we made a tryst with destiny , and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge , not wholly or in full measure , but very substantially . |
| 7 | After a brief warm-up , participants dispersed to try out the various sports , and then the time came for the games , which involved the competitors in ( among other things ) rushing to get balls round traffic cones , and into baskets . |