Example sentences of "[pers pn] be the time [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | What we gave you is the time they come and the next weekend they were back again , and I 'd warned them several times and in the end I said look forget it , and I had it , you know , the works gone off , erm , and as far as I 'm concerned it 's Wednesday nights , I 've really got to , and the price I started to pay , is no longer worth it to me . |
2 | But it 's the time it takes |
3 | It 's the time you shout at your boss and your colleagues because you 're sick of being taken for granted when you know you 've done three times the work of any man for half the recognition . |
4 | It 's the time you stamp on someone 's foot , hard , when they barge past you as you smile at them innocently and say sorry . |
5 | IT 'S the time you lean out of your car window when a man says something about women drivers and yell at them to ‘ come over here and say that . ’ |
6 | It 's the time you decide to take revenge for the wrongs that have been done to you when you were too nave and scared to do anything about it . |
7 | ‘ It was the time they started sending memos out to referees , and I said straight why did n't they just get on with administration and leave us to do the bloody job on the field . |
8 | It was grey and , and mustard , it sounds revolting but we , we were a bit , I suppose it was the time we had a purple carpet , we had an orange wall , do you remember that living room ? |
9 | But there again er it was the time we lived in and you had certain Well yards had their own way of trying to keep track of when a guy was in a toilet etcetera and sometimes you would have to hand in y your er your time ticket , to the toilet attendant , and you would give him this ticket and he would say right you are , you know , and mark down your number on a book and say to you , well you 've got seven minutes or something you know . |
10 | The only thing that ruined the game for me was the time it took to load each room . |
11 | The thing that delighted both of them was the time they had achieved — 54 minutes to complete 10 miles of very tricky going . |