Example sentences of "it be [adv] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've barely had time to wipe the blood off my axe after my last battle and it 's already time to hack my way through the next trail ! |
| 2 | ‘ I mean , ’ says Howard quite bluntly , ‘ it 's probably time to go , is n't it ? ’ |
| 3 | It 's mostly chipboard based , but I did buy an old 60s wardrobe quite cheaply which I cut up to make a computer work station . |
| 4 | It 's either Maurice going to be there or . |
| 5 | ‘ Now Germany is one , it 's finally time to come home . |
| 6 | Okay , right , erm it 's nearly time to go , but before we do , can I just give you some bits and pieces , you , you may well have copies of last year 's exam paper , but if you have n't , this is for development and integration of trade er , have a look at those sorts of essays you 're being asked to do . |
| 7 | It 's nearly time to give up the tights and get out the sandals . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'as to save up for the fare , and when I get there it 's nearly time to come back , ’ Ella said . |
| 9 | It 's nearly time to eat your sandwiches . |
| 10 | It 's just oxygen to help you to breathe . ’ |
| 11 | That 's right , it 's just changes tack now does n't it really . |
| 12 | Erm indeed there are many within in the education system , particularly older men seem to have this attitude in my experience , that y'know it 's just it 's just boys messing about and having a good time . |
| 13 | It 's just nature taking its course . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It 's just Emily said you lived there . ’ |
| 15 | Again , if you go back before about eighteen hundred , if you look at er if you look at art , you find that painters paint things entitled The Rape of Europa , The Rape of , The Rape of whoever it is and if you look at these pictures it 's just people lounging around with not very many clothes on . |
| 16 | A ‘ spokesman ’ was quoted as saying : ‘ There are no fights or anything : it 's just people adapting to changes in the group 's status . ’ |
| 17 | But yes , erm it , it 's partly sediment brought down from inland , it 's also the fact that you have offshore of Rye the area of Winchelsea Beach and so-called Rye Harbour which is somewhat detached from the town of Rye , and there 's been an enormous accumulation of shingle there , so that the Castle , which was built in , that 's Camber Castle which was built in the reign of Henry the Eighth , since that time the shoreline at Winchelsea Beach , as a result of the accumulation of shingle , has moved in excess of one point five kilometres seaward of that point , and so obviously erm Rye is now much further inland than it was at that time . |
| 18 | When you if if you think about a country of song you might think of Wales , but anybody visiting Ireland will know that it 's really Ireland 's got to be a country of song because if you go there you 've got to sing . |
| 19 | They feel it 's about time to retire . |
| 20 | And I was thinking it 's about time to go and have our tea . ’ |
| 21 | and every , it 's always money goes to money she was born with a silver spoon , I was born with a wooden spoon |
| 22 | ‘ For Labour , it 's always society to blame , not the criminal . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's so planes do n't see where to bomb , ’ continued Tom , as if he had read his thoughts . |
| 24 | Now , what I 'd like to do , I mean it 's only sun shining out there so you 'd only be wasting your time anyway , I 'd like to consult you about moving on and getting in the next four motions on union organization . |
| 25 | It 's only competition comes from Informix Corp . |
| 26 | It 's only women firing at us ' and the Atlacatl replied : " Why do n't you " ? |
| 27 | Before you think ‘ Oh , it 's only Tarrant trying to do an Orson Welles War Of The Worlds on us ’ , I have to tell you — it 's true . |
| 28 | It 's with an apostrophe is an abbreviation for it is , because you never , and I I think those three little rules there only apply only nouns have an apostrophe , pronouns never have an apostrophe and it 's only nouns ending in s , have an apostrophe and it 's only when they own the thing that follows , except when they , when they do n't end with an s , but you know the exception of men 's , women 's , children 's and sheep . |
| 29 | Southern Comfort is a remarkable 75p , whereas it 's only 85p to buy ‘ Pills ’ . |
| 30 | It 's only habit keeps you doing it . |