Example sentences of "[was/were] time [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 With that threat having been neutralized , argued Buchanan , it was time to return to a form of nationalism based upon protectionism , minimal government , an avoidance of foreign entanglements , and a defence of the " Judeo-Christian values " which formed the basis of US culture and which were in danger of being " dumped onto some landfill called multiculturalism " .
2 One day , Bonney decided it was time to return to the world of cars and concrete and people .
3 He felt it was time to ask about the stains on the clothes that Jim Lancaster had taken to the dry cleaner 's .
4 My mother had a big spread waiting for us that evening When we got cleared up , and then it was time to report to the UDR base for patrol duty .
5 Having performed my duty and wandered around the coronation hall of the fourteenth century Rathaus with its dreadful nineteenth-century frescoes on the life of Charlemagne , and gazed at Charlemagne 's marble throne in the Cathedral , it was time to sit in the sun for a while and eat an ice-cream .
6 The children , at first shy , soon lost their inhibitions when it was time to put on the camp play , enjoying a freedom which many other youngsters take for granted .
7 He had some notion of hiding in the ruins until it was time to go to the theatre .
8 It was time to call in the Zander Hunter .
9 There was time to start on the parish magazines before the school bus came , a job which had reverted to Peter because he was not good at asking people to do things he did not like doing himself .
10 It was cheers all round in the winners ' enclosure and for Nicholson , the man they call the Duke , it was time to feel like a king .
11 I decided it was time to look into the Bunker properly , and set off along the bank at a jog , swinging round the southernmost dune towards the old pillbox .
12 When it was time to get off the bus , he gave me what I thought was a friendly smile , and said , ‘ It 's all right , dear , I agree with you . ’
13 For her the slow , wide-winged beating across the waves of morning said it was time to run to the rocks and tug in the lines and get a move on .
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