Example sentences of "[vb past] it be time [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | when they found it was time to go back . |
2 | ‘ Brrrrr — ’ he said as the Green Man signalled it was time to cross . |
3 | She could feel the tension building up in his body , and guessed it was time to put on her act . |
4 | Encouraged by this early success , he decided it was time to visit Spanish Elle , and turned up uninvited at their Madrid offices late one Friday afternoon . |
5 | This autumn Anne-Marie Kelly , a parishioner at the Cathedral and former student at S. Martin 's College , decided it was time to celebrate a Mass at the beginning of the Academic Year . |
6 | After a long preliminary chat with the man from the LER , Chapman decided it was time to press home the point . |
7 | ‘ But we now have a strong cash flow able to fund substantial development programmes , and decided it was time to tidy up the balance sheet . ’ |
8 | We decided it was time to do something about that , so we took him along to the vet . |
9 | ‘ I decided it was time to say goodbye , but before I could give notice Sam Hall , the Benskin 's area manager , phoned me to say the company was going to turn the Harrow into a managed house . |
10 | Supposing the Elders of a Carpet Snake clan decided it was time to sing their song cycle from beginning to end ? |
11 | At 75 years of age also decided it was time to take things a little easier and retired on after 13 years with the company . |
12 | As I had already been rock-climbing I decided it was time to take part in the activity which I had been looking forward to , canoeing ! |
13 | ‘ But the format changed and she decided it was time to move on . ’ |
14 | But by 1957 he had become disenchanted with government service and decided it was time to join the private sector . |
15 | When other nations subsequently joined the EEC , I decided it was time to hold fire on future Antichrist prophecies . |
16 | In the build up to her first ever world tour , the now seasoned campaigner decided it was time to kill the cutesy girl-next-door and reflect the reality of what had happened to her over the previous two years . |
17 | They had not yet got Richards , however , and when Collis King joined him they decided it was time to entertain the crowd . |
18 | AFTER seeing herself in a video , , receptionist at South East regional office at Burston , decided it was time to lose weight . |
19 | She yawned , and decided it was time to go to bed . |
20 | With this in mind , plus the fact that the evening 's finale was yet to come , he decided it was time to leave . |
21 | The three of them talked politely about horses and racing for a few minutes , before Kelly decided it was time to leave . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | Equipped with such information , I decided it was time to hit the streets . |
24 | Last year he decided it was time to retire and let a younger man do his job . |
25 | One day , Bonney decided it was time to return to the world of cars and concrete and people . |
26 | I decided it was time to return . ’ |
27 | Now I decided it was time to find out . |
28 | The staff , all from the Burscough-based Westbrook Packaging firm , had seen their company taken over by the French-owned Seyfert Packaging Group and decided it was time to learn the language . |
29 | The Marshal decided it was time to pay a visit to Headquarters . |
30 | When in 1989 , Advent decided it was time to pay back some of its investors , Quality called in investment group 3i Plc to fund further growth . |