Example sentences of "think [pron] [is] about " in BNC.

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1 Whenever he gets the ball , everybody thinks something is about to happen .
2 ‘ Do n't you think it 's about time you pushed off , Piper ?
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 ‘ Do n't you think it 's about time you called me Sarah ?
5 ‘ Do n't you think it 's about time for a love scene ?
6 I should think it 's about two weeks .
7 Privately , Matt Lynch thinks it is about time that the Republic got on with disposing its own toxic waste .
8 I think she is about 70 per cent right .
9 Isabella turns away , and for a moment I think she is about to refuse .
10 I think she is about to fall in love again . ’
11 Er because of the problems the stock piles of coal at various pits , I think there is about forty five million tons stocked at various pits , they 'll still be using coal from Bywater and so that there 's no necessity to mine coal in such er vast amount .
12 I think there 's about half a pint left .
13 So the actual shareholders themselves , I think there 's about forty one thousand of them , in total are quite a big threat to basically the the management of the company at the moment with regards to the direction of the company and the actual opportunities er for the future expansion and development of products and various market segments etcetera .
14 I think there 's about seventy or women in it , but there used to be must have been about , maybe about eighty or ninety women
15 I think there 's about two grand in there but
16 she says she says to me just take thirty pound , the , there were , I think there 's about seven quid that belongs to their bed , well their bed was bloody horrible to pay
17 Mrs Fleming 's … well , she 's quite fat , and she looks a lot older than Mr Fleming — not that I think he 's about to do a Mr Rochester , stick her up the Loft nor nothing !
18 I think he 's about under a year when ,
19 The thing is you 've got to it 's it 's like Nigel , I mean , he works for my uncle erm and he had the other guy Mark working for him for a few years and then he employed Nigel , but Mark was n't a fully qualified plumber and Nigel was and he 's ooh I do n't know about I think he 's about nineteen or no he 's about twenty three I think , yeah
20 I think he 's about five and a half five something like that .
21 And the , I went to the my little now in Italy , making this conditional he says it 's no bloody good on me , poor old curly what , I think he 's about ninety , he looked it , he said what they keep making you conditional for he said you 've got no ruddy condition it 's gone and the , the recommended me for a complete discharge and , and eh , I started off with fifty per cent pension .
22 I think it 's about to fragment into different groups for english football , internationals etc … which would be better .
23 It does n't even have to contain the word quality — if that 's what you think it 's about , you 're probably right !
24 ‘ I just think it 's about time I moved on , you know .
25 I think it 's about time I went back home .
26 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 ? ’
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 Well it 's erm it 's erm it 's about , I think it 's about eighteen thirty three thirty four .
30 Personally I think it 's about time you had a bit of life . ’
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