Example sentences of "was time [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day , Bonney decided it was time to return to the world of cars and concrete and people . |
| 2 | He felt it was time to ask about the stains on the clothes that Jim Lancaster had taken to the dry cleaner 's . |
| 3 | My mother had a big spread waiting for us that evening When we got cleared up , and then it was time to report to the UDR base for patrol duty . |
| 4 | Having performed my duty and wandered around the coronation hall of the fourteenth century Rathaus with its dreadful nineteenth-century frescoes on the life of Charlemagne , and gazed at Charlemagne 's marble throne in the Cathedral , it was time to sit in the sun for a while and eat an ice-cream . |
| 5 | The children , at first shy , soon lost their inhibitions when it was time to put on the camp play , enjoying a freedom which many other youngsters take for granted . |
| 6 | He had some notion of hiding in the ruins until it was time to go to the theatre . |
| 7 | It was time to call in the Zander Hunter . |
| 8 | There was time to start on the parish magazines before the school bus came , a job which had reverted to Peter because he was not good at asking people to do things he did not like doing himself . |
| 9 | I decided it was time to look into the Bunker properly , and set off along the bank at a jog , swinging round the southernmost dune towards the old pillbox . |
| 10 | When it was time to get off the bus , he gave me what I thought was a friendly smile , and said , ‘ It 's all right , dear , I agree with you . ’ |
| 11 | For her the slow , wide-winged beating across the waves of morning said it was time to run to the rocks and tug in the lines and get a move on . |