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

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1 It was time to leave .
2 But I knew that it was time to leave , and we said goodbye to them on New Year 's Eve .
3 With this in mind , plus the fact that the evening 's finale was yet to come , he decided it was time to leave .
4 Perhaps , he decided , it was time to leave and report his failure to Burnell .
5 When it was time to leave and I was waiting for the car to take me back to the station for the journey back , I have to confess that I shed a tear or two .
6 The three of them talked politely about horses and racing for a few minutes , before Kelly decided it was time to leave .
7 In the morning , when it was time to leave , he had paid at the desk with the American Express card Woodward had given him .
8 It was time to leave the kingdom of light .
9 He , like the Prince 's detective John McLean and several other staff who served the Prince during his bachelorhood , knew that it was time to leave once he was safely married .
10 When it was time to leave they had difficulty in getting off the island .
11 The children had no complaints about the refreshments , and when it was time to leave , they decided that it had been a pretty good party .
12 When it was time to leave , she went to her desk , next to Diana 's , and took all her books , pens and pencils with her .
13 But when someone tried to test the security of the spare wheel attached to the side of the body by pulling at it roughly and then , intrigued by the pair of leather driving-gauntlets resting on the front seat , fitted them on and passed them around for general examination he decided it was time to leave .
14 Once the party aligned itself with the ranks of the oppressors , either through cynical design ( Stalin ) , or through incompetence ( the PCF leadership ) , it was time to leave .
15 All those things that had once appealed to every instinct inside her for excitement failed to arouse anything but a nagging desire to look at her watch and wonder what time she could reasonably convince André that it was time to leave .
16 It was time to leave .
17 Despite the fact that she had been deeply touched by the open friendliness of the Greek couple , it came almost as a relief when finally Niall signalled that it was time to leave .
18 In daylight at dawn , it was time to leave the palace and head south on the long trek to Bombay .
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