Example sentences of "[was/were] the time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that was the time to shoot them . |
| 2 | She thought now , This was the time to kill him , the time she had been planning ; the thought lit her up , she felt unaccustomed muscles in her face move again , her tongue seek her lips and pass over them as she considered how to do it . |
| 3 | Now was the time to say no , to deny him while the pressured timbre of his voice still echoed in her mind , threatening whatever barriers had withstood his onslaught to date . |
| 4 | Now , I felt , was the time to sort out my career . |
| 5 | Now was the time to do it . |
| 6 | If I was going to make a change , that was the time to do it . ’ |
| 7 | Strategically , it was the time to do it . |
| 8 | Everyone , including Jake Endo , thought that now was surely was the time to turn it back into a sonnet . |
| 9 | The breakthrough had been made but now was the time to confirm her arrival as a major talent . |
| 10 | This was the time to charge on , while the cannons were being re-loaded . |
| 11 | And it just seemed that that was the time to give up the tenancy . |
| 12 | Now , Fabia swiftly realised , was the time to back away . |
| 13 | Now was the time to take him . |
| 14 | This was the time to offer mutual comfort . |
| 15 | Work at B.P. went on twenty-four hours a day , in three shifts : 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. , 4 p.m. to midnight , and midnight to 9 a.m. , and added to this was the time spent in travelling to and from our billets some twenty miles away , which usually took just over an hour . |
| 16 | It was the time spent with this woman that became instrumental in deterring Millie from making her escape from this prayer-ridden , ignorant set of women , from which Mother Francis must be excluded . |
| 17 | They were told , now was the time to find the courage to stand up to terrorists , |
| 18 | Now was the time to straighten the accounts . |
| 19 | Now was the time to attack the bombers , as they pulled out of their dives , snaking low over the water , slow and cumbersome . |
| 20 | Surely that was the time to attack us ? |
| 21 | Now , he knew , was the time to tell his father about The Cheaper Sex , while he was in such an extraordinarily amiable mood . |
| 22 | Now was the time to tell her . |
| 23 | Now was the time to tell him who and what she was , but she could not spoil this magic moment ; it was McAllister he loved , not Sally-Anne Tunstall , and she would not ruin her perfect afternoon . |
| 24 | He would be bald before he was fifty but I did n't think now was the time to tell him . |
| 25 | This was the time known as sull'imbrunire , when the sky was still bright in the west and the clock on the Governor 's Palace was lit up . |
| 26 | Now was the time to begin preparation in earnest , a pair of overalls was pressed into my hands . |
| 27 | Given the blurring of the distinction between banks and building societies , it was felt that now was the time to drop those measures ( M1 and M3 ) which included bank deposits but not building society deposits . |
| 28 | She felt very strongly that now was the time to start a new phase , when at last her life would be her own . |
| 29 | ‘ Another factor you had to reckon with was the time needed to change a lens on the camera turret . |
| 30 | The interval between the two sets was the time needed to set up the instrument for the lower illumination passing through the filter , about twenty minutes . |