Example sentences of "it be [noun] [pers pn] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Dorothy , it 's time we went to Final Assembly . ’ |
2 | It 's time you learnt to flamenco . ’ |
3 | ‘ It 's time you went to bed . ’ |
4 | Right now I think it 's time you went to bed . |
5 | ‘ It 's time I went to bed . ’ |
6 | And now , clearly , it 's time I turned to the poem itself , having spent most of my hour on the question of how Milton got there . |
7 | I think it is time we listened to our new brother . |
8 | She may appear to become quite self= centred , and those who have been doing all they can to help her may become exasperated and tempted to hint that it is time she tried to ‘ pull herself together ’ , for by then they too will be feeling the strain . |
9 | ‘ It is time you went to bed , ’ she said . |
10 | ‘ It was Beck you spoke to when you called ? ’ |
11 | So he went down and it was Kelly he spoke to and er she said he |
12 | At last the golden afternoon was over , and Robbie heard with regret Fen 's decree that it was time they returned to Water Gypsy . |
13 | Regret not seeing Prague though she might , perhaps , she began to wonder whether it was time she returned to England . |
14 | Just as well you agreed to go quietly when Kenneth suggested it was time you went to bed ; though apparently he and Hamish practically had to carry you upstairs , and the whole way up you were muttering something vile about Lewis being thrown naked into a tub of starving Elephant Leeches . ’ |
15 | The instigators of the revolt were Hugh and Matfrid , the dis-honoured of 828 : it was Pippin they turned to first ; and when Charles 's mother Judith was taken from her husband 's side , and accused of adultery with Bernard , she was sent to custody in Aquitaine , at Ste-Croix , Poitiers . |