Example sentences of "[verb] it be [noun] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we sit to yet another cup of greasy coffee in a steamed-up café I suggest it 's time we got out of all this . |
| 2 | And I do n't know it was truth he said I 'm just collecting all the mole skins for somebody 's mo For a coat , but that was just a story I think . |
| 3 | ‘ I seriously consider it is time we undertook a job inspection of Her Majesty as an employer , ’ he added . |
| 4 | Leith and Sebastian had been in their flat a month when Sebastian declared it was time they had a flat-warming party . |
| 5 | ‘ Just a minute , ’ chipped in Dominic , deciding it was time he made his contribution . |
| 6 | I figured it was time I interrupted the monologue . |
| 7 | If your exercise programme has lapsed it is time you reinstated it on a regular basis . |
| 8 | Now some of his players are saying it 's time he came clean and declared his intentions . |
| 9 | He made quite a fuss about it , saying it was time she left the nest , stood up to the forceful Elise and lived her own life . |
| 10 | her uncle and aunt decided it was time she took a husband , their choice for her being Manfro Draper , a posh-rat like herself . |
| 11 | Jessamy woke up on the morning of her twenty-fourth birthday and decided it was time she put her life in order . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He decided it was time he improved his Test record in 1989 when England were mauled at home by the Australians and he lost his wicket several times to Terry Alderman . |
| 15 | ‘ I suppose it 's time I asked my cousin to leave . |
| 16 | I know you 're only doing your duty ; I suppose it 's time I did mine . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I felt it was time you had your own . ’ |
| 18 | And if some malicious god had n't decreed it was Slane she had to go to , or Slane where he lived , things might have been very different . |
| 19 | The Collector knew it was time he hurried downstairs … he had expected that something like this would happen , but not so quickly . |
| 20 | thought it were road he put all four in , and he went down , up |
| 21 | I thought it was time you got involved in it too , my friend . |
| 22 | His bosses thought it was time he got back into |
| 23 | She relayed several more messages , conveying by her voice that she thought it was time he appeared in his office . |
| 24 | ‘ I thought it was time I began looking like a human being , ’ she snapped . |
| 25 | The way things were going I thought it was time I had a slit trench to dive into . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 28 | And do n't you think it 's time you went home ? ’ |
| 29 | It was her father who brought colour to her cheeks by saying simply , ‘ Lori , do n't you think it 's time you grew up ? |
| 30 | ‘ But do n't you think it 's time you got back to the ward ? ’ |