Example sentences of "decide it be [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 50 chicks and ducklings have decided it 's time to make an impression on the world . |
| 2 | Lachlan Watt had been about to leave Hamish and Antonia 's party when Fergus had fallen over and Fiona had decided it was time to take her husband home ; she had offered Lachy a lift back to his brother 's house , but when they 'd got there Fergus had seemed fast asleep , snoring loudly and taking no apparent notice of Fiona shaking him and shouting at him ; Lachy had volunteered to come back to the castle to help get Fergus out of the car and upstairs to bed ; Fiona would run Lachy back afterwards . |
| 3 | But finally deciding it was time to move off , and doing his best to ignore the rooks , which began to mob him again the moment he took flight , he flew three hundred yards to another oak which he had been looking at with some care . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This autumn Anne-Marie Kelly , a parishioner at the Cathedral and former student at S. Martin 's College , decided it was time to celebrate a Mass at the beginning of the Academic Year . |
| 6 | After a long preliminary chat with the man from the LER , Chapman decided it was time to press home the point . |
| 7 | ‘ But we now have a strong cash flow able to fund substantial development programmes , and decided it was time to tidy up the balance sheet . ’ |
| 8 | We decided it was time to do something about that , so we took him along to the vet . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | Supposing the Elders of a Carpet Snake clan decided it was time to sing their song cycle from beginning to end ? |
| 11 | At 75 years of age also decided it was time to take things a little easier and retired on after 13 years with the company . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | ‘ But the format changed and she decided it was time to move on . ’ |
| 14 | But by 1957 he had become disenchanted with government service and decided it was time to join the private sector . |
| 15 | When other nations subsequently joined the EEC , I decided it was time to hold fire on future Antichrist prophecies . |
| 16 | In the build up to her first ever world tour , the now seasoned campaigner decided it was time to kill the cutesy girl-next-door and reflect the reality of what had happened to her over the previous two years . |
| 17 | They had not yet got Richards , however , and when Collis King joined him they decided it was time to entertain the crowd . |
| 18 | AFTER seeing herself in a video , , receptionist at South East regional office at Burston , decided it was time to lose weight . |
| 19 | She yawned , and decided it was time to go to bed . |
| 20 | With this in mind , plus the fact that the evening 's finale was yet to come , he decided it was time to leave . |
| 21 | The three of them talked politely about horses and racing for a few minutes , before Kelly decided it was time to leave . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Equipped with such information , I decided it was time to hit the streets . |
| 24 | Last year he decided it was time to retire and let a younger man do his job . |
| 25 | One day , Bonney decided it was time to return to the world of cars and concrete and people . |
| 26 | I decided it was time to return . ’ |
| 27 | Now I decided it was time to find out . |
| 28 | The staff , all from the Burscough-based Westbrook Packaging firm , had seen their company taken over by the French-owned Seyfert Packaging Group and decided it was time to learn the language . |
| 29 | The Marshal decided it was time to pay a visit to Headquarters . |
| 30 | When in 1989 , Advent decided it was time to pay back some of its investors , Quality called in investment group 3i Plc to fund further growth . |