Example sentences of "[vb past] it [be] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | when they found it was time to go back . |
| 3 | ‘ Brrrrr — ’ he said as the Green Man signalled it was time to cross . |
| 4 | Leith and Sebastian had been in their flat a month when Sebastian declared it was time they had a flat-warming party . |
| 5 | Before the summer faded it was time , once more , for us to get together . |
| 6 | She could feel the tension building up in his body , and guessed it was time to put on her act . |
| 7 | I figured it was time I interrupted the monologue . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | But by 1957 he had become disenchanted with government service and decided it was time to join the private sector . |
| 11 | He just decided it was time before the country had decided it was time . |
| 12 | They had not yet got Richards , however , and when Collis King joined him they decided it was time to entertain the crowd . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | Equipped with such information , I decided it was time to hit the streets . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | After a long preliminary chat with the man from the LER , Chapman decided it was time to press home the point . |
| 18 | When other nations subsequently joined the EEC , I decided it was time to hold fire on future Antichrist prophecies . |
| 19 | With this in mind , plus the fact that the evening 's finale was yet to come , he decided it was time to leave . |
| 20 | Nigger Asnett , who had been taking it very easy since his homecoming , decided it was time to start work . |
| 21 | Got as far as a Smegma , Arizona , where the left front wheel on my truck decided it was time for a vacation . |
| 22 | Five years on , with the Nazis extending their anti-Semitic reach , Willi 's guardian , a Russian Jewess who looked after several refugee children , decided it was time for a mountain trek to more hospitable territory . |
| 23 | The three of them talked politely about horses and racing for a few minutes , before Kelly decided it was time to leave . |
| 24 | how you can persist in being so utterly incompetent bewilders me , and so while indulging in a little light entertainment in the ZZAP ! offices ( brutally torturing the staff for being human ) I decided it was time I found a solution to the problem . |
| 25 | This autumn Anne-Marie Kelly , a parishioner at the Cathedral and former student at S. Martin 's College , decided it was time to celebrate a Mass at the beginning of the Academic Year . |
| 26 | He decided it was time he improved his Test record in 1989 when England were mauled at home by the Australians and he lost his wicket several times to Terry Alderman . |
| 27 | I finally decided it was time to get tough . |
| 28 | But then Sinkov , billed by Doshan as ‘ a world class player ’ , decided it was time to show off . |
| 29 | One day , Bonney decided it was time to return to the world of cars and concrete and people . |
| 30 | ‘ But the format changed and she decided it was time to move on . ’ |