Example sentences of "[pron] be [noun] [pers pn] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Red and I were kids we had races jumping on ponies in the fields and galloping them round a tree and back without a bridle . |
| 2 | I tell you , Rose , there are times I wish Araminta had married Quatt , and welcome . ’ |
| 3 | Turn to that chapter now if there are issues you need help with right away . |
| 4 | No-one knew quite what he did in there but there were rumours he drank tea with his furniture and wrote furiously on the walls in a language only he understood . |
| 5 | and then down below there 's Helen you know Christopher and |
| 6 | If there is trouble it seems Jones is inevitably in the middle of it , but he ca n't afford to mix it any more with a six-month suspended ban hanging over him . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's thoo he mun suit . ’ |
| 8 | It 's time we had ministers who will listen to Social Services and in a few months time we shall have them , a Labour Government . |
| 9 | ‘ I think it 's time we got things straight between us , ’ he said grimly . |
| 10 | I think it 's time we increased surveillance on all arrivals into Finland . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Then it 's time you changed restaurants , ’ retorted the Florentine owner , evidently considering this an unlikely eventuality . |
| 12 | ‘ Thank you for warning me ; it 's time I put plan B into action . ’ |
| 13 | Then I think it 's time I came south , maybe the Pembroke coastal path or following the Thames to the sea , ’ he said . |
| 14 | I 've always tried to happen to life ; but it 's time I let life happen to me . |
| 15 | I know you 're only doing your duty ; I suppose it 's time I did mine . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It is time we rejoin Iain and get going . |
| 17 | Their record on crime is a disaster , and it is time they gave way to a Government who have the imagination and policies to tackle crime fundamentally , not at the periphery . |
| 18 | If you are finding that you are answering ‘ yes ’ to most of these questions , it is time you took action ! |
| 19 | Perhaps it was time he told Corbett so . |