Example sentences of "it was time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt it was time to ask about the stains on the clothes that Jim Lancaster had taken to the dry cleaner 's . |
| 2 | Finally it was time to tackle the design of the hotel 's talking-point — the vast fresh-water swimming-pool Stephen planned to construct to cater for guests who , having come thousands of miles to see the Caribbean , decided they did n't actually want to swim in it . |
| 3 | She said a tiny minority were making life miserable for the majority and said it was time to tackle the root causes of crime . |
| 4 | She said a tiny minority were making life miserable for the majority and said it was time to tackle the root causes of crime . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | It was time to say dasvadanya ( goodbye ) to almost the entire carriage : the old man with a chest full of medals from the Great Patriotic War against the Nazis ; the young pianist visiting her estranged father in Riga and , of course , the gentle engineer with whom I had shared so much food and time . |
| 7 | Returning to Switzerland for a week it was time to say our goodbyes to each other . |
| 8 | I suppose that at that moment , the night before I stepped ashore to build a new life , it was time to say goodbye to the old . |
| 9 | They kissed lightly when it was time to say goodbye . |
| 10 | Early TV sets sometimes had doors , which you folded back to reveal the screen when it was time to watch . |
| 11 | Then it was time to watch " Tomorrow 's World " |
| 12 | It was time to dance . |
| 13 | A slight divergence appears here in the separate chronologies ; Boswell gives the impression they danced after supper ; Johnson says , ‘ When it was time to sup , the dance ceased , and thirty persons sat down to two tables in the same room . |
| 14 | ‘ He 'd been avoiding me , I knew he had , then I met him and he said it was time to finish , ’ Maureen wept . |
| 15 | It took 30 minutes of argument , a great deal of soothing of apparently hurt professional pride , and not a little money to persuade Chela that it was time to call it a night , alone . |
| 16 | Ten years later the 50% State-owned Gasunie announced that , with exports running at more than half of production , it was time to call a halt and all new export contracts were stopped . |
| 17 | At the very first meeting in St Margaret 's Hope village hall they had asked for monetary pledges , at the second meeting in the local school they said it was time to call in those promises and start counting the cash . |
| 18 | It was time to call in the Zander Hunter . |
| 19 | Supposing the Elders of a Carpet Snake clan decided it was time to sing their song cycle from beginning to end ? |
| 20 | I had his confidence — and it was time to chance my luck . |
| 21 | He loved teaching and talks enthusiastically about it , but felt it was time to enjoy doing his own work . |
| 22 | Surkov signed the bill for our teas , and it was time to board the coach to take us to the late-afternoon theatrical performance . |
| 23 | It was 11.3Oam and the crick in the back of my neck told me it was time to give up trying to read ‘ War and Peace ’ lying on a sunbed under the July Spanish sun . |
| 24 | It was time to give in and do a bit of grovelling . |
| 25 | These are some of the questions and comments I 've heard recently and I thought it was time to give some answers . |
| 26 | Because we 've given much space to the needs of working mothers , I felt it was time to give housewives their say . |
| 27 | It was time to plant the tank . |
| 28 | Their owner , a collector from Rossett who wishes to remain anonymous , said it was time to let his collection go . |
| 29 | Checking his watch he saw it was time to swim back to the canoe and his rendezvous with Roger Courtney , who had been paddling offshore for the last few hours , keeping the canoe head or stern towards the beach so that it was less likely to be seen . |
| 30 | 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 . |