Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [conj] [pron] [be] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | British Rail management has said that it is time to start thinking about the passengers — ‘ customer-orientation ’ — but does not seem to have any other ideas for improvement . |
| 2 | After several hours of interment and long and complicated ritual preparations , a series of oracular tests was performed to discover whether it was time to open up the ritual grave and recover the cured patient . |
| 3 | Regret not seeing Prague though she might , perhaps , she began to wonder whether it was time she returned to England . |
| 4 | My hands felt clammy , the usual signs of old Shallot beginning to wonder whether it is time to cut and run . |
| 5 | She may appear to become quite self= centred , and those who have been doing all they can to help her may become exasperated and tempted to hint that it is time she tried to ‘ pull herself together ’ , for by then they too will be feeling the strain . |
| 6 | If 19 April 1023 saw expressions of anti-Danish feeling , Cnut could have decided that it was time for the situation to be defused by removing the body to Canterbury . |
| 7 | He watched as Edna wheeled the pram back to the house , having announced that it was time for ‘ a certain person 's tea ’ . |
| 8 | But his wife had said that it was time for an opportunity to wear something other than thick tweeds . |
| 9 | Some European governments have begun to mutter that it is time the Croats had a taste of sanctions . |
| 10 | The wind that day had been increasing with the approach of bad weather and the instructor , who had decided that it was time to stop , was towing the glider to the hangar . |
| 11 | Then his uncle had decided that it was time to send him to school . |
| 12 | Down at the one-time pavilion that was now the Venetz sisters ' lakeside restaurant , Angelica Venetz had decided that it was time for the big old mallard 's appointment in duck heaven . |
| 13 | He had decided that it was time to think things through and settle them once and for all , but whenever he started thinking about Zeinab thoughts became memories of touch and smell and look and emotion and he became most unsettled . |
| 14 | Reluctantly we had to stop as it was time to go to see Mr Hopkin , who made us most welcome . |
| 15 | BOOZE AND THE BALANCE SHEET Excessive drinking costs companies dear , and many have realised that it 's time to do something about it |
| 16 | No wonder Americans have decided that it 's time for an end to non-interventionalist government . |