Example sentences of "[was/were] time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both were time served joiners , Brian Linighan insisting that his talented sons learned a trade too . |
| 2 | ‘ And I have no wish for time to soon pass , as you express it — were time to pass that quickly , I should very soon be an old old woman . |
| 3 | By the time another male child followed the first , almost exactly a year later , it was time to perpetuate the maternal grandfather 's Christian name . |
| 4 | Maybe it was time to force the pace ; time to draw the T'ang out of himself . |
| 5 | About half of the sixty-five guests had wandered through into the lecture hall , but since Anthea was due to give the address and she was still talking to the professor , there was time to spare . |
| 6 | In the build up to her first ever world tour , the now seasoned campaigner decided it was time to kill the cutesy girl-next-door and reflect the reality of what had happened to her over the previous two years . |
| 7 | Now it was time to extend my knowledge with the help of a professional falconer . |
| 8 | He said that after 3 ½ years of competition between British Telecom and the Cable and Wireless subsidiary , Mercury Communications , it was time to survey customers ' experience and , if necessary , ‘ identify practices which might still be inhibiting competition ’ . |
| 9 | It was time to leave . |
| 10 | But I knew that it was time to leave , and we said goodbye to them on New Year 's Eve . |
| 11 | With this in mind , plus the fact that the evening 's finale was yet to come , he decided it was time to leave . |
| 12 | Perhaps , he decided , it was time to leave and report his failure to Burnell . |
| 13 | When it was time to leave and I was waiting for the car to take me back to the station for the journey back , I have to confess that I shed a tear or two . |
| 14 | The three of them talked politely about horses and racing for a few minutes , before Kelly decided it was time to leave . |
| 15 | In the morning , when it was time to leave , he had paid at the desk with the American Express card Woodward had given him . |
| 16 | It was time to leave the kingdom of light . |
| 17 | He , like the Prince 's detective John McLean and several other staff who served the Prince during his bachelorhood , knew that it was time to leave once he was safely married . |
| 18 | When it was time to leave they had difficulty in getting off the island . |
| 19 | The children had no complaints about the refreshments , and when it was time to leave , they decided that it had been a pretty good party . |
| 20 | When it was time to leave , she went to her desk , next to Diana 's , and took all her books , pens and pencils with her . |
| 21 | But when someone tried to test the security of the spare wheel attached to the side of the body by pulling at it roughly and then , intrigued by the pair of leather driving-gauntlets resting on the front seat , fitted them on and passed them around for general examination he decided it was time to leave . |
| 22 | Once the party aligned itself with the ranks of the oppressors , either through cynical design ( Stalin ) , or through incompetence ( the PCF leadership ) , it was time to leave . |
| 23 | All those things that had once appealed to every instinct inside her for excitement failed to arouse anything but a nagging desire to look at her watch and wonder what time she could reasonably convince André that it was time to leave . |
| 24 | It was time to leave . |
| 25 | Despite the fact that she had been deeply touched by the open friendliness of the Greek couple , it came almost as a relief when finally Niall signalled that it was time to leave . |
| 26 | In daylight at dawn , it was time to leave the palace and head south on the long trek to Bombay . |
| 27 | Gay Switchboards have passed on information to every man who phoned in , self-help groups and caring services were set up , and — when there was time to breathe — attempts were made to persuade a reluctant government that the deaths of so many gay men was an issue worthy of their attention . |
| 28 | He loved teaching and talks enthusiastically about it , but felt it was time to enjoy doing his own work . |
| 29 | After several months , she felt it was time to lay the troublesome lady ( and her own nerves ) to rest . |
| 30 | Down to his last few hundred dollars , and with nothing but the good offices of a public defender standing between him and the octopus , it was time to evacuate the hostages . |