Example sentences of "[was/were] the right time " in BNC.

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1 I could n't work in those circumstances , so I decided this was the right time if I really wanted to do something with my solo career , just break loose completely . ’
2 ‘ I 'd always wanted to work with Mutt Lange ; I 've actually tried to work with Mutt since 1984 , but he was always busy on a project , but he wanted to do it and it was the right time for both of us .
3 He repeated , together with the Chairman of the Social Work Committee , Mrs Mairhi Trickett , that seven o'clock in the morning was the right time to take the children , as it was a time when families would all be together .
4 ‘ It was the right time to get married .
5 And although 75 per cent of them thought 16 was the right time to start having sex , girls admitted they still made the mistake , often with drastic consequences , of saying Yes when they really meant No .
6 In the meantime , he eventually sold the Company as its peak in 1987 , he had made another small fortune , and with some 30 aeroplanes and 80 pilots on the books he felt it was the right time to let it go .
7 ‘ That was the right time .
8 In the Western calendar a new decade had just begun — it was the right time for a new beginning !
9 Oh the teachers were very good , they usually greeted you with a big plum or something , if it was the right time of the year , which it usually was .
10 Perhaps now was the right time to ask Rohmer just what the hell he really was , just what the hell was really going on … ?
11 It was the right time as she came around to the front of the house .
12 He was pleased that this was the right time .
13 Catherine agreed that now was the right time to go there .
14 He seemed to have decided that now was the right time to clean the Great Hall floor and was poking the mop head in among the boys ’ legs , muttering to himself .
15 A week ago , sterling joined the European Exchange Rate Mechanism ; it lifted the gloom for the Tory Party Conference in Bournemouth , and this afternoon , the Chancellor , John Major , came to explain why now was the right time for Britain to join .
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