Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] was time " in BNC.
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| 1 | SHOPPERS in Newcastle and the MetroCentre found there was Time for School when the department of Education and Science Roadshow hit the NorthEast . |
| 2 | Reacting to the killings , the Nobel Peace Prize winner , Desmond Tutu , the Anglican archbishop of Cape Town , said it demonstrated it was time for all South Africa 's politicians ‘ for goodness sake to get off your butts and get on with the business of getting a new constitution for this country . |
| 3 | when they found it was time to go back . |
| 4 | Arlene gave her a small push to indicate it was time and she moved out . |
| 5 | He just decided it was time before the country had decided it was time . |
| 6 | Lachlan Watt had been about to leave Hamish and Antonia 's party when Fergus had fallen over and Fiona had decided it was time to take her husband home ; she had offered Lachy a lift back to his brother 's house , but when they 'd got there Fergus had seemed fast asleep , snoring loudly and taking no apparent notice of Fiona shaking him and shouting at him ; Lachy had volunteered to come back to the castle to help get Fergus out of the car and upstairs to bed ; Fiona would run Lachy back afterwards . |
| 7 | There is a story , apocryphal no doubt , told by his friends that Bernard , having decided it was time for another move , walked into the offices of a prestigious estate agents one Saturday to see what was available . |
| 8 | The dog lobby had clearly felt it was time to take action . |
| 9 | ‘ Brrrrr — ’ he said as the Green Man signalled it was time to cross . |
| 10 | Leith and Sebastian had been in their flat a month when Sebastian declared it was time they had a flat-warming party . |
| 11 | Before the summer faded it was time , once more , for us to get together . |
| 12 | ‘ Just a minute , ’ chipped in Dominic , deciding it was time he made his contribution . |
| 13 | But finally deciding it was time to move off , and doing his best to ignore the rooks , which began to mob him again the moment he took flight , he flew three hundred yards to another oak which he had been looking at with some care . |
| 14 | She could feel the tension building up in his body , and guessed it was time to put on her act . |
| 15 | I figured it was time I interrupted the monologue . |
| 16 | He made quite a fuss about it , saying it was time she left the nest , stood up to the forceful Elise and lived her own life . |
| 17 | However , my presence was clearly unsettling its regular inhabitants so I decided it was time to make a move — and time to confront Charles Howard . |
| 18 | ‘ I decided it was time to say goodbye , but before I could give notice Sam Hall , the Benskin 's area manager , phoned me to say the company was going to turn the Harrow into a managed house . |
| 19 | But by 1957 he had become disenchanted with government service and decided it was time to join the private sector . |
| 20 | He just decided it was time before the country had decided it was time . |
| 21 | They had not yet got Richards , however , and when Collis King joined him they decided it was time to entertain the crowd . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ But we now have a strong cash flow able to fund substantial development programmes , and decided it was time to tidy up the balance sheet . ’ |
| 24 | Equipped with such information , I decided it was time to hit the streets . |
| 25 | After the leak of Cabinet minutes on child benefit in 1976 he decided it was time , once more , to have a secrecy law under whose rubric juries were likely to convict . |
| 26 | After a long preliminary chat with the man from the LER , Chapman decided it was time to press home the point . |
| 27 | When other nations subsequently joined the EEC , I decided it was time to hold fire on future Antichrist prophecies . |
| 28 | With this in mind , plus the fact that the evening 's finale was yet to come , he decided it was time to leave . |
| 29 | Nigger Asnett , who had been taking it very easy since his homecoming , decided it was time to start work . |
| 30 | Got as far as a Smegma , Arizona , where the left front wheel on my truck decided it was time for a vacation . |