Example sentences of "[pers pn] 's about [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's called Polypterus and it 's about 12″ long , blue grey in colour with a white underside and pectorals that look like table tennis bats . |
| 2 | Well it 's about quarter to seven so I suppose you 're soon going to be off . |
| 3 | No it 's about quarter to now . |
| 4 | ‘ I just think it 's about time I moved on , you know . |
| 5 | ‘ Do n't you think it 's about time you pushed off , Piper ? |
| 6 | ‘ It 's about time you and Mummy stopped going to that dreary old Richardson in the High Street and switched to Mr Vigo . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Billy , it 's about time we did something about the way you look . ’ |
| 8 | I think it 's about time I went back home . |
| 9 | I was hoping there was , cos it 's about time I got back home — it 's getting pretty late . |
| 10 | It 's about time somebody answered it ! |
| 11 | It 's a profession and it 's about time they started to act like professionals . ’ |
| 12 | It 's about time that most of these types were out of diving . |
| 13 | The brand new ramp deck for Steve Caballero , once again made by Powell Peralta. and it 's about time Cab had a new model : this one is 31 ½ inches long , with a 6 inch tail , 9 ¾ inch wide . |
| 14 | It 's about time groups felt more about the music than the money . ’ |
| 15 | Medical Records Bill Becomes Law It 's About Time ! |
| 16 | All we can say is , it 's about time ! |
| 17 | On the awkward leg some of the worst reasons for tacking are : ‘ It 's about time I did one . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It 's about time those two lads of mine settled down and started to raise families . |
| 20 | He said , ‘ We 've been through all this before and it 's about time they were getting things right . |
| 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 | In the July following Hilary 's birth , which had taken place in February , Stephen announced at dinner , ‘ I think it 's about time Seth Walton retired . |
| 23 | The music industry is a rip-off and it 's about time something is done about it ! |
| 24 | It 's about time Joe pulled himself together . |
| 25 | It 's about time somebody killed this ‘ debate ’ dead in its tracks , even if it meant stating the obvious ; that postmodernism is nothing more than Situationism without the socialism , the archetypal assimilation of revolutionary technique and terminology . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's about time England adopted the attitude of : Why make Gazza track back and defend , when we could have other players to do that and let Gazza do what he 's good at . |
| 27 | Parent : It 's about time you tidied up your socks . |
| 28 | But it is n't , and it 's about time the public knew that . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's about time different ideas came . |
| 30 | And Barbara Merifield , of Bedlington , Northumberland , said : ‘ It 's about time Charles and the rest of the Royals took a leaf out of Diana 's book . ’ |