Example sentences of "it be [adv] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Mind you , I do n't I , I think it were yesterday morning I oh no it were Monday morning . |
2 | I think it 's rather dandy he 's finished off , he 's put this white erm stuff you know what they squeeze from now . |
3 | It 's nearly Christmas I reckon . |
4 | Outside , the daylight sludge is darkening , and it 's nearly time we will be allowed back in that depressing hole . |
5 | It 's just polisher he could get a job , see that . |
6 | Well it 's just excitement you know , she hardly does |
7 | But even if it 's just darkness I want that peace . |
8 | ‘ It 's just background I need at the moment . ’ |
9 | ‘ It 's also time I got down to thinking positively about this show . |
10 | And then I , well if it 's really income he needs , I thought he could look at an equities portfolio for the eighty thousand , say , forty thousand in er groceries and forty thousand in pharmaceutical . |
11 | Yeah how much effect it does have I do n't know because where but I think it 's it 's really basis you know it 's better to be safe than sorry . |
12 | ‘ It 's really time I was going , madame . |
13 | The music industry is a rip-off and it 's about time something is done about it ! |
14 | It 's about time something was done to help people who have this complaint . |
15 | It 's a profession and it 's about time they started to act like professionals . ’ |
16 | He said , ‘ We 've been through all this before and it 's about time they were getting things right . |
17 | That 's why I 'm glad that WISE thing , I mean it 's about time they bloody realized — I 'm convinced that once a woman gets into science she 's just as good as if not better than , any man . |
18 | It 's about time they brought someone like yourself in to sort it out — no offence meant to you , Mr Aplin , but Mr Eddy ‘ ere 's the best detective they 've got up at Scotland Yard , make no mistake about that . ’ |
19 | Two Chinese teachers have just graduated from an international centre in Hebrew They say both China and Israel have ancient traditions , and it 's about time they got to know more about each other . |
20 | We , we , we said it 's about time they grew potatoes in that field |
21 | Oh good god , it 's about time they got their arses in gear and started doing something properly |
22 | Look at my windows and think it 's about time they were cleaned |
23 | ‘ Billy , it 's about time we did something about the way you look . ’ |
24 | 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 ? ’ |
25 | It 's about time we had a pop star called Gordon again . |
26 | This is something that 's been on my mind for a very long time and I mean , I , I , I think it 's about time we started getting rid of these things and updating our own toilets you know . |
27 | Alluding to the Prime Minister 's enthusiasm for charters , he said : ‘ It 's about time we had a charter for workers ’ rights . |
28 | It 's about time we loosened up a bit anyway . |
29 | ‘ It 's about time we considered going public . ’ |
30 | ‘ It 's about time we asked Pam to dinner , ’ said Scarlet one evening . |