Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] it 's about " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | That 's alright love , that 's alright , it 's my fault for being up there , it er I 'm always doing that putting me elbow up , er , it 's a right old'un you know I mean it 's about ten , twelve years old now |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Yeah , I know it 's about fifteen P and |
| 5 | ‘ Anyway , I 've been so lucky in life I reckon it 's about time I started giving something back — and the club 's the perfect place to do it . ’ |
| 6 | I 'll try to spare you that , but I guess it 's about time I came clean and admitted it 's by no means a one-man show . |
| 7 | I think it 's about time I went back home . |
| 8 | 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 ? ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Well it 's erm it 's erm it 's about , I think it 's about eighteen thirty three thirty four . |
| 12 | Personally I think it 's about time you had a bit of life . ’ |
| 13 | It may be too old it 's , I think it 's about twenty years old |
| 14 | ‘ I think it 's about time I had a talk with her . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I think it 's about time we were going to chapel , Madam ’ , said her companion . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , I think it 's about time you did some work . |
| 17 | I think it 's about time I 'm calling because |
| 18 | I think it 's about time we actually put that word back into the dictionary and made it a good word to have . |
| 19 | The reason appearing to be that menarche is weight-triggered and in particular is turned on by er body weight reaching erm a certain proportion I think it 's about eighteen percent of weight erm erm represented by body fat triggers , triggers menarche . |
| 20 | I think it 's about right now . |
| 21 | I think it 's about six . |
| 22 | Oh yes , there ha , I mean there are economies of scale in agriculture , it 's just that they 're , the scope of them er , is less than er the scope in manufacturing so I mean , farms used to be a lot smaller and throughout this century , this last century we 've witnessed an increase in farm size alright , but the I think the optimal , the optimal farm size is erm , I think it 's about three hundred hectares okay , er erm , with three hundred hectares you 'll produce a , a pretty squit proportion of erm total output but farms used to be sort of one , two , three , ten hectares in size as we 've gone through the farms have amalgamated and increased in size and that 's primarily due to economies of scale , but there are a great deal of economies to be reached , once you 've got a combine harvester , once you 've got big machinery alright . |
| 23 | I think it 's about time that you stopped bleating . |
| 24 | I think it 's about time that you stopped blaming , and I think it 's about time that you started accepting re le responsibility that you are in it and getting on and making this council . |
| 25 | I think it 's about time that you stopped blaming , and I think it 's about time that you started accepting re le responsibility that you are in it and getting on and making this council . |
| 26 | Erm I think it 's about half . |
| 27 | It 's wrong , Mr Deputy Speaker , if they 're living in this country erm on a semi-permanent basis and happen to have been here last October they 'll have a vote so will any everybody else who 's a citizen of the European union , so will peers of the realm who happen to be living elsewhere whether they 're in this country or outside this country under these regulations and previous regulations , have a vote in the European elections and I think it 's wholly wrong that erm citizens of other European countries namely France because that 's the one and it 's remarkable is it not that France is the one that 's gon na be the cause of this whole edifice collapsing if we do n't submit to their extra demands but citizens of France who are citizens living in their colonies , as I 've said in South America , the West Indies and the Pacific , will have a vote in the European elections on June the ninth and yet we have got citizens for whom we are responsible for in this house , we can not shirk it onto anyone else , we deny them the responsibility and I think it 's about time the house addressed this matter . |
| 28 | erm in which you have a core of five permanent members and they are the victors of the second world war erm and then others who sit in in rotation to make up the total assembly but I think it 's about eighteen members altogether ? |
| 29 | ‘ I think it 's about time that you stopped sulking , ’ Ross drawled coolly . |
| 30 | ‘ And I think it 's about time I played one … ’ |