Example sentences of "it be [noun] [pron] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's time we had ministers who will listen to Social Services and in a few months time we shall have them , a Labour Government . |
| 2 | ‘ I think it 's time we got things straight between us , ’ he said grimly . |
| 3 | I think it 's time we increased surveillance on all arrivals into Finland . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Then it 's time you changed restaurants , ’ retorted the Florentine owner , evidently considering this an unlikely eventuality . |
| 5 | Then I think it 's time I came south , maybe the Pembroke coastal path or following the Thames to the sea , ’ he said . |
| 6 | I know you 're only doing your duty ; I suppose it 's time I did mine . ’ |
| 7 | It is Shug who protected Celie from Albert , she promised to stay with her , since Albert never beat her when Shug was around . |
| 8 | Their record on crime is a disaster , and it is time they gave way to a Government who have the imagination and policies to tackle crime fundamentally , not at the periphery . |
| 9 | If you are finding that you are answering ‘ yes ’ to most of these questions , it is time you took action ! |
| 10 | In the days of his partnership with Tim Rice , it was Rice who took charge of the " front of house " publicity , handling the round of chat-shows and press interviews with a breezy and plausible charm . |
| 11 | were regular visitors at his home , but it was Busoni who became Petri 's mentor , and close friend . |
| 12 | In 1528 , when he perhaps helped to garrison Guisnes , offices in Salisbury eluded him because Thomas Wolsey [ q.v. ] had already disposed of them ; by 1530 it was Wolsey who needed Baynton 's goodwill . |
| 13 | Keynes has shown that he and his brothers , six of them according to Florence of Worcester , appear in the witness lists of royal charters for some time before 1006 ; but it was in 1007 that Eadric received his ealdormanry , and Florence says that it was Eadric who had Ælfhelm murdered and the king who blinded his sons . |
| 14 | The Times hypothesised in the course of the election campaign that it was leaders who lost elections , not challengers who won them . |
| 15 | For it was Gould who showed Darwin his first evidence of the possible transmutation of species . |
| 16 | It was Boyer who helped Coleridge to understand the subtle logic and ‘ fugitive causes ’ which gave the greatest poetry its power , and who taught the lesson , not immediately applied in Coleridge 's teenage work , that conventional metaphors and needless elaboration seldom made good verse : |
| 17 | It was Powell who took care of the necessary details that Branson was too impatient to deal with — accounting , credit controls , job descriptions , compliance with Acts . |
| 18 | It was Aubrey who brought Harry back to his senses . |
| 19 | ‘ . The murdered emperor was Caligula ; it was Nero who succeeded Claudius . |
| 20 | It was Ossie who took Swindon up into the 1st division — or so he thought . |
| 21 | And at Avranches , it was Arnulf who persuaded Henry to accept the final settlement . |
| 22 | It was Willans who advised Rolt 's parents to apprentice him as a mechanical engineer , and it was with great enthusiasm that in 1926 the boy left Cheltenham College , which had been a miserable experience for him , to serve as a pupil at Bomfords , an agricultural engineering firm at Pitchill near Evesham . |
| 23 | And it was Nicholas who grabbed Celtic 's second goal after 27 minutes . |
| 24 | It was Goscinny who suggested changes until we got him just right . ’ |
| 25 | But he revealed : ‘ It was Nigel who found Paul Byrne through his southern contacts . |
| 26 | ‘ It was Wyatt who introduced Johnny to Fergie two years ago — and that 's when things took off , ’ says Taki . |
| 27 | It was Sidney who introduced Charlie to loud , cigar-chomping music hall impresario Fred Karno ( John Thaw ) . |
| 28 | It is a curious joke of history that it was Stalin who gave Lithuania its capital city ( between the wars it was in Poland ) , and Tito who , in order to weaken great-Serbian chauvinism , created a much larger Croatia with a much larger Serbian minority . |
| 29 | It was Oliver who noticed Barbara Coleman 's exit from the house . |
| 30 | It was Emma who insisted Ruth always ask . |