Example sentences of "that [was/were] the time " in BNC.
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1 | That was the time when there was a clamour to release the dogs of war and to send out Mrs Thatcher with a fully-loaded handbag . |
2 | And if ever I thought it , that was the time that I thought that Mother knew what she was singing about . |
3 | That was the time when I stood in all that fluid with my boots on , a priceless carpet under my feet , hounds never seen on the earth before lying still and obedient before me , staring out of that maternal portico with its flanking columns , down the long avenue of limes that lead to birth , life and Arcadia . |
4 | If I was going to make a change , that was the time to do it . ’ |
5 | Surely that was the time to attack us ? |
6 | And that was the time when this was all done . |
7 | That was the time I started to get used to the place , to the screws and things like that , because some had seen me before . |
8 | And it just seemed that that was the time to give up the tenancy . |
9 | Anyway that 's what that was the time when I was sea sick , when we come across the channel . |
10 | That was the time when you did the fancy things on the top , aye . |
11 | That was the time — and Rosen remembers it with obvious affection — when the spirit in schools was high , when teachers enjoyed opening school books , running book and reading clubs , and staying late after the bell to do so . |
12 | And that was the time to shoot them . |
13 | You 're too young to remember , but that was the time of austerity . |
14 | That was the time when Freud was exploring just the id . |
15 | Yes , we had drivers that had to do sort of timed deliveries or whatever in the morning , and they , so basically that was the time . |
16 | Ah , that was the time we had a spring flu epidemic . |
17 | That was the time of the disruption . |
18 | That was the time when there was a first portable radios come out |
19 | I did n't realize that was the time . |
20 | So that was the time I 've been before a recorder . |
21 | Now that was the time when first daylight on Bristol , and we heard the bombers go up , and I went home out on the tram car , and there were the young ones just screaming down into the city , I said , ’ good grief , those bombers have hit something ’ , and it was Filton Aeroplane , people had direct hits on shelters you see . |