Example sentences of "[subord] it was [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No sooner was I home and motherly than it was time to dress up and head back to the theatre . |
| 2 | Although he had n't sold a book in weeks he would happily sit at the counter engrossed in his beloved William Blake until it was time to turn the sign on the front door from ‘ Open ’ to ‘ Closed ’ . |
| 3 | The ring I 'd bought was placed on a plum-coloured cushion made of velvet and winked at us until it was time to put it on Gill 's finger . |
| 4 | She had her own chair brought to that particular paddock right at the start of the day and never moved until it was time to go home . |
| 5 | He returned to his boy and the two of them continued with their play until it was time to go home for tea . |
| 6 | He would work until it was time to go home , on the new warhead design that would replace the free-fall WE-177 bomb with an air-launched cruise system . |
| 7 | He had some notion of hiding in the ruins until it was time to go to the theatre . |
| 8 | In fact there were very few guide dogs at that time and erm I 've never felt that erm it 's , I mean maybe just my erm silliness really but I , I never wanted a dog lying about all day because once at the office I stayed put as it were until it was time to go home and I could have taken the dog I suppose during the lunch hour but I preferred that time to erm to reading |
| 9 | Alain carefully ignored her until it was time to go and she watched his car sweep from the house with very mixed feelings . |
| 10 | Instead he read a paper he 'd bought in Trieste and forgotten to throw away , immersing himself in a debate over the council 's delay in resurfacing the streets in an outlying zone of the city until it was time to go to work . |
| 11 | At home I might have fed it to the fish , but here I felt sorry for it and watched until it was time to move on . |
| 12 | Until it was time to retire , the guests occupied themselves variously with chess , gramophone records and a comparison of their ailments . |
| 13 | They left the coast after they had harvested any catch-crops and grazed the stubble , to arrive in the south for the date harvest , feeding their animals on fodder-dates and forage crops until it was time to return north . |
| 14 | She stayed at the back of a shop until it was time to come out cautiously and find an unoccupied phone again . |
| 15 | Woosnam feared that he would miss the cut , then have to sit around watching re-runs on TV of The Lucille Ball Show until it was time to help slip the green jacket on the new champion . |
| 16 | I 'd put money in their pockets and their favourite possession by their side and then the others would wait by the death-tent until it was time to bury 'em . " |
| 17 | Then I went back to my panel-picture and worked until it was time to start the supper . |
| 18 | He could live with it , until it was time to change and emerge as the Party it really was . |
| 19 | 8 When preceded by an interrogative pronoun ( I do n't know what to do ) or adverb ( Tell me where to go ) , or by a conjunction ( He looked at the clock , as if it was time to go ) , an infinitive with to is often equivalent to a dependent clause : What to do ; What am I to do ? |
| 20 | He looked at his watch again and wondered if it was time to intervene . |
| 21 | Along at Moness House James Flemyng and his wife looked at each other apprehensively and wondered if it was time to bar the shutters . |
| 22 | I , I ca n't understand the secretariat allowing this to come out were told by the president that it was not possible to use this money unless it was grant related . |
| 23 | In the localities innovation often preceded the 1944 Act , because it was innovation created by the conclusions of the Hadow committee of 1926 rather than a novel revision of the system . |
| 24 | The AR-WACC Women 's Desk was closed this year because it was time to turn it over to an existing women 's group which would take the programme to a new phase in its development as well as broadening the network . |
| 25 | They did n't search me straightaway because it was time to change the guard at six o'clock precisely . |
| 26 | After several hours of interment and long and complicated ritual preparations , a series of oracular tests was performed to discover whether it was time to open up the ritual grave and recover the cured patient . |
| 27 | A few days later ‘ Bahamas ’ passed by on the North West Coast Express before it was time to return to base . |
| 28 | Long before it was time to fire he realized that he would have to pull out or crash ; below fifty feet there would be no recovering , not from this angle , not at this speed . |
| 29 | It was most unlike her to wake before it was time to get up . |
| 30 | as I say when it was sunlight shining through the bloody thing on his face . |