Example sentences of "it was time for " in BNC.
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| 31 | And everyone knew that now it was time for Madame 's famous song . |
| 32 | At five o'clock precisely , it was time for Dame Edna to catnap before changing for the evening for some glittering social round . |
| 33 | It was time for me to disappear . |
| 34 | Now it was time for our first venture out ; luckily the yard was situated amidst very quiet roads , and my husband John had been loaned a schoolmaster called Paddy to act as escort . |
| 35 | The Gospel being read , it was time for the sermon . |
| 36 | Although urged by his party to remain , he thought , like a decent democrat , that it was time for someone else to have a go , and he retired at the time of the 1987 General Election . |
| 37 | Three days later it was time for the state visit of President Mobutu of Zaire . |
| 38 | At the end of the season Chapman called me in and said it was time for me to decide one way or the other . |
| 39 | It was time for him to leave as well . |
| 40 | It was time for the party , early August . |
| 41 | Yanto arranged to pick them up outside Sharpness Coop Sunday morning , after which Mary said it was time for her to go home . |
| 42 | He had no answer — save that British scientists had been reorganised so often in recent years that it was time for stability . |
| 43 | It was time for the regulators to get heavy . |
| 44 | Got as far as a Smegma , Arizona , where the left front wheel on my truck decided it was time for a vacation . |
| 45 | Five years on , with the Nazis extending their anti-Semitic reach , Willi 's guardian , a Russian Jewess who looked after several refugee children , decided it was time for a mountain trek to more hospitable territory . |
| 46 | It was time for a straight talk from Dorothy Hardisty . |
| 47 | The fit had frightened Edward , and he would n't leave Anna 's side even when Ma told him it was time for bed . |
| 48 | Sarah refused to think about the inevitable separation from Corrie when it was time for her to be returned to the Foundling Hospital . |
| 49 | It was time for second lot . |
| 50 | It was time for kip . |
| 51 | It was time for second lot . |
| 52 | It was time for a bit of bottle , not for knocking knees . |
| 53 | When it was time for the foal to be separated from its mother , the friends took the foal but no longer visited Shamrock . |
| 54 | Surely it was time for tea . |
| 55 | Then it was time for my paper-round , followed by school . |
| 56 | For all his enjoyment of the work and the companionship of his team the lad was not sorry when the ground covered , about half an acre , showed that it was time for his midday snack . |
| 57 | At the Jamboree it was time for tea . |
| 58 | The Samoan people explain the mythos of Creation as follows : as Na Atibu , the father of the gods , lay dying , he decided the world was ready for mankind and that it was time for mortals to settle the earth . |
| 59 | At the end it was time for supper , which was almost as uneatable as the bed had been unsavoury . |
| 60 | After the great divide had been effected , it was time for the mystics to find a new way to cross the abyss and rediscover the old unity — not , this time , in the outside world but in the depths of the self . |