Example sentences of "[noun] that it was time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They spent the rest of the afternoon in animated discussion — so animated that Folly had gently to point out to her employee that it was time to lock up . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Clinton , who the opinion polls consistently suggested enjoyed a significant lead , continued his relentless attack on the economic record of the Bush-Reagan years and repeated the underlying message of his campaign that it was time for change . |
| 4 | His narrow escape at Petit-Clamart finally convinced the General that it was time to take action to meet both dangers at once . |
| 5 | In making this break with tradition , James , it seems , had come to the conclusion that it was time for the intellectual elite to shut up and listen to the workers for a change for it was they who were at the sharp end of the production system and therefore they who first sensed any changes in patterns of production . |
| 6 | At last the golden afternoon was over , and Robbie heard with regret Fen 's decree that it was time they returned to Water Gypsy . |
| 7 | He had no answer — save that British scientists had been reorganised so often in recent years that it was time for stability . |
| 8 | The Conservatives handed out the Greens ' fairly innocuous version of the 1989 Queen 's Speech gratis , too , in the belief that it was time the public had their eyes opened to what the party was really about . |
| 9 | In the belief that it was time a woman was honest about the experience , my paintings try to convey the sensation of giving birth and my feelings at the time . |
| 10 | The beeper alarm on Diane 's watch sounded as they were driving back , the signal that it was time for her to go and collect the litterbug Jed from his minder . |
| 11 | I do n't remember waking up with the blinding realization that it was time to go : it was more like a very gradual awareness that there simply was n't an alternative . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Today Gloucestershire MPs Geoffrey Clifton Brown and Paul Marland told social security ministers that it was time to stop the flood of so-called easy money to travellers who were n't interested in working |
| 14 | Today Gloucestershire MPs Geoffrey Clifton Brown and Paul Marland told social security ministers that it was time to stop the flood of so-called easy money to travellers who were n't interested in working |
| 15 | ‘ I will not tolerate dissent , ’ said referee ‘ Jersey Joe ’ Walcott , who told the other chief offender Moin that it was time he ‘ grew up ’ . |