Example sentences of "[vb past] it be time [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Reacting to the killings , the Nobel Peace Prize winner , Desmond Tutu , the Anglican archbishop of Cape Town , said it demonstrated it was time for all South Africa 's politicians ‘ for goodness sake to get off your butts and get on with the business of getting a new constitution for this country .
2 Got as far as a Smegma , Arizona , where the left front wheel on my truck decided it was time for a vacation .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 He 'd just finished helping with the dishes when he decided it was time for high-jinks in the sink .
6 In the meantime the people on the boat moored between Bob Nudd and myself decided it was time for a move .
7 One of the tractor drivers ( which had been turning in front of me all day ) decided it was time for dinner .
8 I decided it was time for a change . ’
9 At home he did n't spook at bright blue barrels , a wall or planks , so we decided it was time for our first party .
10 But one day Miss Havisham decided it was time to apprentice me to Joe , and told me to bring him to her house .
11 After keeping and breeding Malawi Cichlids for the past fifteen years NANCY SHUTTLE felt it was time for winds of change to blow into the fish house .
12 A spokesman for Selina said : ‘ She felt it was time for a change . ’
13 Berowne 's only explanation had been that he felt it was time for his life to take a new direction .
14 ‘ 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 . ’
15 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 .
16 As she moved off with the other mounted followers , Artemis determined that if her father thought it was time for her to stop riding ponies and learn to hunt on a horse , then so be it .
17 Christina noticed her face , and thought it was time for goodnights , before Antonio added something he might really be sorry for .
18 I 'd had enough of working in an accounts department , my family had uprooted themselves , and I thought it was time for a change .
19 When Loc , with another worried glance in Jacques Devraux 's direction , insisted it was time for them to go to bed , Paul galloped across the clearing with little Hoc on his shoulders and dumped the boy squealing with laughter on his sleeping mat .
20 ‘ As manager I accept responsibility for the team 's position and both parties agreed it was time for a change . ’
21 At the end of the season Chapman called me in and said it was time for me to decide one way or the other .
22 Yanto arranged to pick them up outside Sharpness Coop Sunday morning , after which Mary said it was time for her to go home .
23 Dr Hendron said it was time for political talks to be re-activated .
24 John Whitehouse , of West Lane Residents ' Association , said it was time for action .
25 One ear was pointing to the mountains ; the other suggested it was time for lunch .
26 It was in April of that year that F.W. Hardy , captain of Stockton Cycle Club , got together with a few others to complain that the Barnard Castle Meet was being dominated too much by clubs from Tyneside and suggested it was time for cycling clubs from the south of the region to break away .
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