Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] was time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realised it was time to move out . |
| 2 | I figured it was time I interrupted the monologue . |
| 3 | However , my presence was clearly unsettling its regular inhabitants so I decided it was time to make a move — and time to confront Charles Howard . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | Equipped with such information , I decided it was time to hit the streets . |
| 6 | When other nations subsequently joined the EEC , I decided it was time to hold fire on future Antichrist prophecies . |
| 7 | how you can persist in being so utterly incompetent bewilders me , and so while indulging in a little light entertainment in the ZZAP ! offices ( brutally torturing the staff for being human ) I decided it was time I found a solution to the problem . |
| 8 | After three weeks of perch work I decided it was time to start training her to fly from other locations . |
| 9 | Now I decided it was time to find out . |
| 10 | Helen continued to circulate ; I decided it was time for a pee and then maybe some food , which took me via the garden ( there was a queue for the downstairs loo , and the upper part of the castle was locked ) to the kitchen . |
| 11 | I decided it was time to look into the Bunker properly , and set off along the bank at a jog , swinging round the southernmost dune towards the old pillbox . |
| 12 | I decided it was time for a change . ’ |
| 13 | I decided it was time to return . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 've always been very aware that I needed to give something back after this experience and when I read about the appeal for people prepared to give homes to the Bosnians , I decided it was time I stepped in . ’ |
| 15 | 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 ! |
| 16 | Having made such progress in Sheffield , I felt it was time to move back to home ground , so I set up a CHE group in Rotherham . |
| 17 | I resigned from the family planning about seven years ago when my husband retired , as I say because he used to help me very much and when he retired and my children had all married I felt it was time that I should retire too . |
| 18 | ‘ I felt it was time you had your own . ’ |
| 19 | Because we 've given much space to the needs of working mothers , I felt it was time to give housewives their say . |
| 20 | I knew it was time to move . |
| 21 | She looked as big as a donkey and when the cavernous jaws with the great yellowed teeth brushed my thigh I knew it was time to go . |
| 22 | The way things were going I thought it was time I had a slit trench to dive into . |
| 23 | ‘ I have n't had my hair cut for about a year and neither has Meera so I thought it was time for a change . ’ |
| 24 | I thought it was time you got involved in it too , my friend . |
| 25 | Reading Mary Bailey 's article this month , which is both a celebration of seven years of service to the hobby , and a cry from the heart to help her to help you , I thought it was time I promoted , explained and outlined our superb readers ' query service . |
| 26 | These are some of the questions and comments I 've heard recently and I thought it was time to give some answers . |
| 27 | Standing up , I assured her that I was n't drunk but tired and that I thought it was time for me to walk her home . |
| 28 | I thought it was time very well spent . ’ |
| 29 | I 'd had enough of working in an accounts department , my family had uprooted themselves , and I thought it was time for a change . |
| 30 | ‘ I thought it was time I began looking like a human being , ’ she snapped . |