Example sentences of "it [vb past] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It passed the time , ’ Nicholas said . |
| 2 | It passed the time . |
| 3 | It was time for a film , a film I had watched before , however I did not mind as it passed the time . |
| 4 | It passed the time . |
| 5 | And er until it became the time when the thing got smaller and smaller and we finally had to do away with that place . |
| 6 | A grid of reference wires in front of the rotating map presented the hours , and as the solar image passed each wire it indicated the time as well as any sundial could . |
| 7 | For example , when Rome 's first sundial was brought to the city from Sicily in 263 BC , during the first Punic war , and was erected in the Forum it was inaccurate because it indicated the time appropriate to the place whence it came which was more than four degrees to the south . |
| 8 | When the Belgian nuclear industry decided to allow reporters into its new reactors at Doel near Antwerp , it followed the time honoured tradition of entertaining the thirsty hacks on a boat trip up the river Schelde . |
| 9 | It had a pre-defined space — Waimea Bay — but it left the time open . |