Example sentences of "[pron] decide it be [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 However , my presence was clearly unsettling its regular inhabitants so I decided it was time to make a move — and time to confront Charles Howard .
2 I decided it was time to say goodbye , but before I could give notice Sam Hall , the Benskin 's area manager , phoned me to say the company was going to turn the Harrow into a managed house .
3 Equipped with such information , I decided it was time to hit the streets .
4 When other nations subsequently joined the EEC , I decided it was time to hold fire on future Antichrist prophecies .
5 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 .
6 After three weeks of perch work I decided it was time to start training her to fly from other locations .
7 Now I decided it was time to find out .
8 Helen continued to circulate ; I decided it was time for a pee and then maybe some food , which took me via the garden ( there was a queue for the downstairs loo , and the upper part of the castle was locked ) to the kitchen .
9 I decided it was time to look into the Bunker properly , and set off along the bank at a jog , swinging round the southernmost dune towards the old pillbox .
10 I decided it was time for a change . ’
11 I decided it was time to return . ’
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 As I had already been rock-climbing I decided it was time to take part in the activity which I had been looking forward to , canoeing !
14 Pausing long enough at Bingen to have a coffee and look at maps , I decide it is time to abandon the Rhine for a while and cut up the valley of the river Nahe towards Idar-Oberstein and the Palatinate Forest .
15 ‘ I assure you , Caroline , when I decide it is time to take a wife , I will choose the correct one for a man in my position . ’
16 ‘ But the format changed and she decided it was time to move on . ’
17 Now , however , spurred on by the popularity of the Victorian nightdress , she decided it was time to produce a modified version as a day dress .
18 Now she decides it is time to tell Pearl the truth .
19 We decided it was time to do something about that , so we took him along to the vet .
20 At home he did n't spook at bright blue barrels , a wall or planks , so we decided it was time for our first party .
21 They had not yet got Richards , however , and when Collis King joined him they decided it was time to entertain the crowd .
22 As his chauffeur drove him back to Blue Ash Farm in the Lincoln , he decided it was love which gave her that special glow , that sparkle , that vivacity which drew the young men round her like flies .
23 After the leak of Cabinet minutes on child benefit in 1976 he decided it was time , once more , to have a secrecy law under whose rubric juries were likely to convict .
24 With this in mind , plus the fact that the evening 's finale was yet to come , he decided it was time to leave .
25 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 .
26 Encouraged by this early success , he decided it was time to visit Spanish Elle , and turned up uninvited at their Madrid offices late one Friday afternoon .
27 But when someone tried to test the security of the spare wheel attached to the side of the body by pulling at it roughly and then , intrigued by the pair of leather driving-gauntlets resting on the front seat , fitted them on and passed them around for general examination he decided it was time to leave .
28 He 'd just finished helping with the dishes when he decided it was time for high-jinks in the sink .
29 Last year he decided it was time to retire and let a younger man do his job .
30 In the meantime the people on the boat moored between Bob Nudd and myself decided it was time for a move .
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