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Example sentences for "when the time comes"

  • I want you to stay with and help my son; when the time comes, you will swim with him to a boat, and try and get away.

  • When the time comes, the president of Sony can take charge.

  • When the time comes, as it inevitably will, they will have to make up for the shortage of imported food by growing their own in baseball fields, parks, and roadsides.

  • And the present military, though they call themselves the Self Defense Forces, will, when the time comes, point their guns in this direction.

  • Though it may be all right if we make occasional use of needless things during the period of transition, we must not run after them crying when the time comes to bid a final farewell.

  • You can always catch him up when the time comes.

  • But we shall follow after--when the time comes, Edward.

  • All of us--when the time comes--together.

  • Your promise stands, and I know you'll keep it when the time comes--after I've done my part.

  • Leave things here to me, and you'll find, when the time comes, that Slyne will have to take a back seat.

  • This is certainly a great drawback upon the pleasure one takes in travelling, and I sometimes think, when the time comes that I must do the same to all I have known here, I shall wish I had never come.

  • Kiss Henry boy for his grandmother, and wish him a 'happy new year' for me when the time comes.

  • When the time comes for it, one should make peace with an enemy; and when the time comes, one should wage war with even a friend.

  • The duties of Kshatriyas are exceedingly fierce and are always connected with the use of weapons, and it has been laid down, O chief of the Bharatas, that they should, when the time comes, perish by weapons on the field of battle.

  • Yet there are other things which you must assuredly see, when the time comes; but I must not let you bite off a larger piece than you can swallow.

  • But I do not think it is of any use to tell you all this; you will see it in a flash, when the time comes.

  • When the time comes to return to the quiet of the mud bed at the bottom, the animal, having had enough of the sun, draws itself wholly into its sheath again and, with a piston stroke, expels the air from the back room.

  • Unable herself to enter the Mason bee's cell to lay her egg, she cannot leave it either, when the time comes to free herself and appear in broad daylight in her wedding dress.

  • There is no one by me, except my acolyte, standing by my side, ready to help me when the time comes.

  • Those who want to save their skins--when the time comes.

  • We'll know all about it when the time comes.

  • It pays them better--when the time comes.

  • When the time comes, some one will remove the mask from his face.

  • He was the man of whom public opinion had said: "When the time comes, some one will emerge from the darkness.

  • They will cut off his retreat when the time comes.

  • I shall furnish all the necessary proofs when the time comes.

  • But I'll tell you all about it when the time comes.

  • If you find many more eager to join, you can tell them that we will send for them, when the time comes, to increase our numbers; and pray them to abide here, and not to go into Gamala.

  • They shall be kept as a last resource; and I know that, when the time comes, they can be relied upon.

  • I shall remember your words," Mary said, saucily, "when the time comes.

  • I shall not forget it; and hope, when the time comes, to reward it as it deserves.

  • Though I cannot teach him the knowledge of the English, I can do much to fit him to take his place as an Englishman, when the time comes.

  • I beseech your Majesty to bestow her in marriage, when the time comes, upon Sir Cuthbert.

  • When your eyes are closed, Sir Walter, Sir Cuthbert shall be Earl of Evesham, and, when the time comes, the husband of your daughter.

  • I beseech your majesty to bestow her in marriage, when the time comes, upon Sir Cuthbert.

  • When the time comes, I must meet the obstacle as I best may.

  • And I will undertake, when the time comes, so to use my influence over him as to prevent his being present at the marriage, and discovering (what he must never know) that my name is the same as his own.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "when the time comes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    else will; soul and; when all; when boiled; when dissolved; when done; when dried; when elected; when employed; when engaged; when finished; when formed; when found; when light; when next; when perfectly; when placed; when she; when taken; when their; when thou; when touched; when travelling; when using; when wanted; when well