Example sentences of "was [adv] the time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would have liked to have driven his dagger straight into the interfering clerk 's throat but knew this was not the time nor the occasion . |
| 2 | When Swan heard that Harvey was at the Ministry of Transport , he tried to draw him out on the subject of motorways in Warwickshire , but the junior Minister in charge of roads said that this was not the time or place to discuss the subject . |
| 3 | ‘ But the middle of a courtroom in front of a judge was hardly the time or the place . ’ |
| 4 | It was also the time that the National Joint Action Committee for Women 's Equal Rights had been formed . |
| 5 | Alyssia shrugged vaguely , knowing that this was n't the time or the place to confide in her friend . |
| 6 | This was n't the time or the place , she excused her procrastination , guiltily aware of what she was doing . |
| 7 | She opened her mouth to ask her mother why he 'd said that , and just as abruptly closed it again , realising that this was n't the time or the place to discuss private family matters . |
| 8 | This , however , was precisely the time that Guntram and Childebert were in dispute over Marseilles . |
| 9 | Bunny did n't feel it was either the time or the place to mention the half-dozen empty aspirin bottles strewn about the floor of the phone box — their contents were later found heaped like so many loose sweets in the bottom of her handbag — or that she had ‘ popped out ’ in the middle of the scene in Cleopatra 's boudoir . |
| 10 | Emily felt angry words rise to her lips but quickly suppressed them , this was neither the time nor the place to argue Craig 's innocence . |
| 11 | She bit back her anger , for it was neither the time nor the place to start an argument . |
| 12 | But this was neither the time nor the place for a show-down — the score would have to be settled later . |