Example sentences of "but it was [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Literally translated , Vogelsang means ‘ bird song ’ , but it was some time before the dawn chorus when the Squadron Sergeant Major bawled out the orders for reveille . |
| 2 | Tisane , like tilleul , was in Frederica 's vocabulary , the word , not the thing , but it was some time yet before she would understand their connection with Proust , who had entered her consciousness largely through a striking nightmare , dreamed the night before her Oxford entrance examination , which she recalled , as M. Grimaud talked and the scented trees brushed past . |
| 3 | He heard the tin bracelets jangling on her wrists and from time to time she bent her head close over her fists as though blowing on reluctant embers ; but it was some time before he realized that he , too , was naked , and that the hands of the Moi girl were stroking and chafing his own body . |
| 4 | Her face seemed familiar , but it was some time before he realized that she was the curly-haired bit who had given him the slip some months back . |
| 5 | In view of the extent of domestic disquiet in the last year of the Crimean War Alexander had every reason to adopt a policy of radical reform , but it was some time before he did so . |