Example sentences of "[pron] was [adv] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was on the tip of her tongue to answer this blow below the belt with a savage ‘ ditto ! ’ but there was not the time , nor did she have the inclination to resurrect the past right now . |
| 2 | And there was a satisfaction about it although I always think in those days we had to work so fast that there was n't the time to do what you 'd really like to have done for the patients . |
| 3 | ‘ It could have been major much earlier — I had the know-how and had already done the groundwork — but when I was racing there was n't the time , nor did I have the surplus energy to allow the business its head . |
| 4 | There was also the time element The next tide could not be far away and if he was caught by the tide he would be in real trouble . |
| 5 | There was also the time when he was told he would have to win either the championship or the cup to ease the club 's financial plight . |
| 6 | But there was never the time to put the theory to the test . |
| 7 | Bunny did n't feel it was either the time or the place to mention the half-dozen empty aspirin bottles strewn about the floor of the phone box — their contents were later found heaped like so many loose sweets in the bottom of her handbag — or that she had ‘ popped out ’ in the middle of the scene in Cleopatra 's boudoir . |
| 8 | She bit back her anger , for it was neither the time nor the place to start an argument . |
| 9 | Maybe because the teddy boy fashion was just beginning to edge back in ; it was around the time of Roxy Music 's Spaceman Ted look . |
| 10 | I was conducting Elektra in Berlin — I think it was around the time of his 75th birthday — and at the end he came and said to me it was the best performance of the opera he had ever heard . |
| 11 | It was around the time of ‘ Strange Town ’ and he was starting to think that punk rock had had it and he was getting very emotional . |
| 12 | It was around the time of Eric Verrico 's disappearance that the three Bernard brothers — Bruce , Oliver and Jeffrey — came into Minton 's life . |
| 13 | But it was n't the time for secrets , or the place . |
| 14 | It was n't the time to be playing silly games . |
| 15 | It was n't the time for normal feelings , such as embarrassment . |
| 16 | It was n't the time to remind her mother that she was forty . |
| 17 | ‘ It was n't the time , ’ his wife said . |
| 18 | But it was not the time for lingering or relaxation . |
| 19 | It was not the time to talk . |
| 20 | It was also the time that the National Joint Action Committee for Women 's Equal Rights had been formed . |
| 21 | Perhaps it was just the times I saw him in the Div II Championship year and the season after that . |
| 22 | Grierson , in fact , lived a singularly carefree and untroubled existence but Talbot thought it was hardly the time to point this out to him . |