Example sentences of "[verb] it was [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Leith and Sebastian had been in their flat a month when Sebastian declared it was time they had a flat-warming party . |
| 3 | ‘ Just a minute , ’ chipped in Dominic , deciding it was time he made his contribution . |
| 4 | I figured it was time I interrupted the monologue . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | her uncle and aunt decided it was time she took a husband , their choice for her being Manfro Draper , a posh-rat like herself . |
| 7 | Jessamy woke up on the morning of her twenty-fourth birthday and decided it was time she put her life in order . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I felt it was time you had your own . ’ |
| 12 | The Collector knew it was time he hurried downstairs … he had expected that something like this would happen , but not so quickly . |
| 13 | I thought it was time you got involved in it too , my friend . |
| 14 | His bosses thought it was time he got back into |
| 15 | She relayed several more messages , conveying by her voice that she thought it was time he appeared in his office . |
| 16 | ‘ I thought it was time I began looking like a human being , ’ she snapped . |
| 17 | The way things were going I thought it was time I had a slit trench to dive into . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its . |
| 20 | I do n't think it was romance I thought he kept her in chocolates and cigarettes . |
| 21 | This time Reception said they had run out of vases and , whatever he 'd done , did n't she think it was time she forgave him ? |
| 22 | About three months before I finally , I was husband made me go to the doctor or go to the doctors for me and that 's when I realized it was depression I did n't know anything about it then . |
| 23 | Said it was time he did , meaning Maurice had so many kids and … well , you can get the message . ’ |
| 24 | Just as well you agreed to go quietly when Kenneth suggested it was time you went to bed ; though apparently he and Hamish practically had to carry you upstairs , and the whole way up you were muttering something vile about Lewis being thrown naked into a tub of starving Elephant Leeches . ’ |
| 25 | I 'd say it was interest he lacked . ’ |