Example sentences of "it be [noun] [prep] [pers pn] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is nonsense for us to debate such matters in Committee for an hour and a half and then , at the end of the debate , we vote not on the merits of the matter but on whether it has been considered . |
| 32 | He must be able to stamp his authority not only on his team but on the peloton as a whole , directing the whole tenor of the race before it is time for him to go to the front and win . |
| 33 | ‘ Maybe it is time for me to get angry and fight back at those who are fighting me , ’ she said . |
| 34 | Then it is time for it to find a suitable spot to turn into a chrysalis . |
| 35 | ‘ My father 's old housekeeper — he and she grew old together — has a daughter who needs to make money ; , she lives in Nile Street , and if you were to say that I sent you , she might well be glad to put you up till it is time for you to go to Oxford . ’ |
| 36 | ‘ It is time for you to serve me . ’ |
| 37 | That it is time for us to take our rightful place . |
| 38 | It is time for us to thank . |
| 39 | It was nonsense for her to say no one had a motive for murdering her husband . |
| 40 | It was agony to him to dismiss her . |
| 41 | At the end of the season Chapman called me in and said it was time for me to decide one way or the other . |
| 42 | I knew when I woke that it was time for me to return . |
| 43 | It was time for me to go . |
| 44 | The half-hour eventually crawled round , then it was time for me to go and get ready . |
| 45 | eyes on before and when it was time for me to go to bed I would be encouraged not made |
| 46 | Once I grasped the centrality of symbolism to the religion and grasped its effect , it was time for me to leave . |
| 47 | Then it was time for me to attend the evening reception on Britania . |
| 48 | We had several until I decided that it was time for me to sit on her lap . |
| 49 | After six years it was time for me to move on to Debenham High School . |
| 50 | ‘ I believed her when she assured me I would meet someone much more suitable when it was time for me to get married . ’ |
| 51 | Standing up , I assured her that I was n't drunk but tired and that I thought it was time for me to walk her home . |
| 52 | I could see that it was time for me to make the tea . |
| 53 | ‘ When it was time for me to fire the very pistol , I had to get up from the wireless operator 's seat and had to move my parachute — which was always as close to my feet as possible and instead of lifting it up by the canvas carrying handle , I lifted it up by the metal handle ( the rip cord ) and so had a bundle of silk to get out of the way . |
| 54 | It was time for me to disappear . |
| 55 | And he was always up before it was time for her to call him . |
| 56 | When it was time for her to leave , he walked out into the sun to open the driveway gates . |
| 57 | As she moved off with the other mounted followers , Artemis determined that if her father thought it was time for her to stop riding ponies and learn to hunt on a horse , then so be it . |
| 58 | ‘ Of course , ’ Fabia replied , and from then until it was time for her to drive Cara to the airport she listened intently to all her sister had to impart . |
| 59 | Yanto arranged to pick them up outside Sharpness Coop Sunday morning , after which Mary said it was time for her to go home . |
| 60 | Her friends were settled , politics infinitely depressing , she came to the decision to make some break ; it was time for her to go . |