Example sentences of "[vb past] the time have come " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When our family shareholders decided the time had come to sell the company , they offered to sell it to the management team if we could match the price a trade bidder could pay . |
| 2 | One afternoon , a week later , I decided the time had come to stop dithering like a Victorian maiden and to write to Bill , when I got off at ten that night , asking if no news was good news . |
| 3 | Late in the afternoon , I decided the time had come to go . |
| 4 | She decided the time had come to leave the bordello , and seek lodgings somewhere in the vicinity of the Pont du Sevres . |
| 5 | 10 years ago BBC1 's Last of the Summer Wine was going strong as Foggy and Clegg decided the time had come to replace Compo 's well-worn trousers . |
| 6 | A few moments later he shivered again , sneezed and decided the time had come to return to his mates and forget it . |
| 7 | Now that the new system of advanced courses is becoming well established the time has come for the work of the Central Support Unit to be absorbed into mainstream SCOTVEC Departments . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There were certainly those who felt the time had come to end the war , a courageous stance in view of the Imam 's known determination to keep going . |
| 10 | Constance knew the time had come to face the music and speak to Nora . |
| 11 | He knew the time had come to head directly north along the western coast and investigate Cape Wrath at last . |
| 12 | ‘ He thought the time had come for me to have a car , and very kindly provided me with one . |
| 13 | But many Americans thought the time had come for a political change to the safer conservatism of the Republican Party . |
| 14 | Dr Myerscough said : ‘ I have tried to put myself in the consultant 's shoes in this situation and I think his apparent instinct that he thought the time had come to induce labour was correct . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | Mr Hurd said he opposed military action , but conceded the time had come where he could ‘ imagine armed action against Serbia to prevent a general Balkan war ’ . |