Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , originally er I was involved in er registration , because there , with this very loose connection with the registrar , by now I was full time with the council , as rating assistant and rent collector . |
| 2 | We are misled time after time after time when people have problems like they 're having their vehicle serviced , it 's put a claim in for a water pump , and have the cost of their service paid for . |
| 3 | As space has diminished , our capacity to think ahead has expanded ; but it is when we are given time on the ball , and space to move , that our limitations are exposed . |
| 4 | Volunteers can help clients more effectively if they are allocated time for tasks other than direct interviewing . |
| 5 | Well it 's bound to me , he must get fed up , but eh , he do n't really want a job like , full time , he wants to be able to he gets fed up of it being full time after a while . |
| 6 | IT 'S PANTS-cacking time for atheist scum 'cos soon God 's gon na kill everything and he knows whether you 've been good or not . |
| 7 | Afterwards it 's collapsing time in the drawing room . |
| 8 | It 's double time for Sundays . ’ |
| 9 | Philistinism is rife , and it is high time for some loud restatement of the old conservationist maxim that ownership is no more than a temporary rental on the nation 's heritage . |
| 10 | It is high time for a collection from new voices . |
| 11 | It is high time for this neglect to yield to a more open discussion of these issues and a more positive approach . |
| 12 | And having heard , he said sombrely : ‘ It is high time for her . |
| 13 | ( Clearly , it is high time in this essay that we did just that ! ) |
| 14 | Connolly 's famous valedictory — ‘ It is closing time in the gardens of the West ’ — may be little more than the self-excusing of an indolent man , but what replaced Horizon ( 1940 — 50 ) and Penguin New Writing ( 1940–50 ) was something far brisker and far less mandarin . |
| 15 | Not because he 's big time with a name and an image , but because he 's learned his trade . |
| 16 | It was a Michaelmas Day or at least the old erm Quarter Day for paying rents and erm it was generally known in those days as muck spreading because erm it was usual time for erm , the farm workers to get ready for the winter ploughing . |
| 17 | It was high time for a fresh interpretation . |
| 18 | It was high time for Benjamin to get married then — he had waited long enough . |
| 19 | It was high time for practical things , it was time to get a job . |