Example sentences of "it was time to return " in BNC.

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1 They left the coast after they had harvested any catch-crops and grazed the stubble , to arrive in the south for the date harvest , feeding their animals on fodder-dates and forage crops until it was time to return north .
2 Sadly , all too soon , Friday was upon us and it was time to return home , renewed and refreshed .
3 It was time to return home so I jerked the machine into a spiral dive , just in case the remaining CR 42s or the two 109s were still in the vicinity , flattened out at about 800 feet and jinked my way back to Takali .
4 One day , Bonney decided it was time to return to the world of cars and concrete and people .
5 A few days later ‘ Bahamas ’ passed by on the North West Coast Express before it was time to return to base .
6 He tried to cover up the flutter of surprise by leaning forward and telling the driver it was time to return to New Scotland Yard .
7 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 " .
8 I decided it was time to return . ’
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