Example sentences of "[verb] it [be] [adv] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house was old ; her father had said it was about time it was pulled down . |
| 2 | Paul Gascoigne has been given the freedom to roam forward , David Platt will be looking to add to his remarkable haul of 12 goals from his last 14 games , and Paul Ince reckons it 's about time he opened his England scorecard . |
| 3 | Cos somebody might take it was n't money I sent anyway , just an order form |
| 4 | It is too easy to dwell on the environmental down-side of the industry and I believe it is about time we brought home to people the improvements we bring to their life-style . |
| 5 | ‘ Anyway , I 've been so lucky in life I reckon it 's about time I started giving something back — and the club 's the perfect place to do it . ’ |
| 6 | I 'll try to spare you that , but I guess it 's about time I came clean and admitted it 's by no means a one-man show . |
| 7 | It had been in his possession for quite a while and Broomhead felt it was about time he sold the thing . |
| 8 | Look , I thought it was only Jenner you wanted to know about . |
| 9 | ‘ I thought it was about time I made another . ’ |
| 10 | Maisie Dougall had been listening to her friends going on and she thought it was about time she made a contribution . |
| 11 | ‘ We thought it was about time it came again . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't you think it 's about time you pushed off , Piper ? |
| 13 | ‘ Well , then — ’ Alice walked across the kitchen to the open fireplace and , bending towards the oven at the side of it , she opened the door and took out a casserole dish and placed it on the table before she went on , ‘ If that 's how you 're feeling I think it 's about time you got yourself married . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't you think it 's about time you called me Sarah ? |
| 15 | Mind you , I do n't I , I think it were yesterday morning I oh no it were Monday morning . |
| 16 | That 's why I 'm glad that WISE thing , I mean it 's about time they bloody realized — I 'm convinced that once a woman gets into science she 's just as good as if not better than , any man . |
| 17 | If he 's going to be miserable I mean it 's only nursery it does n't really matter . |
| 18 | Well like I mean I said to him I do n't think , you know I mean it was just ideas I think he said I 'm not saying do it . |
| 19 | I think it 's rather dandy he 's finished off , he 's put this white erm stuff you know what they squeeze from now . |
| 20 | Look at my windows and think it 's about time they were cleaned |
| 21 | Later they went to a jazz club in the King 's Road — Uncle Ted had never seen black walls before — where Eva slyly said to Dad , ‘ I think it 's about time we moved to London , do n't you ? ’ |
| 22 | This is something that 's been on my mind for a very long time and I mean , I , I , I think it 's about time we started getting rid of these things and updating our own toilets you know . |
| 23 | ‘ I think it 's about time we were going to chapel , Madam ’ , said her companion . |
| 24 | I think it 's about time we actually put that word back into the dictionary and made it a good word to have . |
| 25 | Well I think it 's about time we was going Geoff if you 've |
| 26 | ‘ I just think it 's about time I moved on , you know . |
| 27 | I think it 's about time I went back home . |
| 28 | ‘ I think it 's about time I had a talk with her . ’ |
| 29 | I think it 's about time I 'm calling because |
| 30 | ‘ You know I really think it 's about time I took up smoking again , gentlemen . ’ |