Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] be [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Leith and Sebastian had been in their flat a month when Sebastian declared it was time they had a flat-warming party . |
| 2 | As they watched their parents go it was Rachel who spoke first . |
| 3 | Studland folk said it was Harry who fell . |
| 4 | He had a winging moustache and a goatee beard but he moved tentatively , uncertainly , and Melanie guessed it was Finn who worked him . |
| 5 | Graham reckons it 's time his side went gunning for trophies again — starting with today 's clash against Chelsea . |
| 6 | I think this is clearly Miller 's main use for the character of Alfieri and he tries to make this more realistic by making Alfieri a lawyer though I do not think that this is done very well as Alfieri does not say anything which would justify him being a lawyer as all Eddie asks him are things he would have asked anyone though perhaps he asked him because he was a ‘ lawyer ’ and he respected this and knew he would get confidentiality . |
| 7 | The Collector knew it was time he hurried downstairs … he had expected that something like this would happen , but not so quickly . |
| 8 | The next time the phone rings it 's Charles Aught . |
| 9 | Philip knew it was time he was getting back . |
| 10 | Liberal leader Paddy Ashdown believes it is time she coughed up . |
| 11 | her uncle and aunt decided it was time she took a husband , their choice for her being Manfro Draper , a posh-rat like herself . |
| 12 | Vinnie decides it is time he spoke . |
| 13 | But yesterday McLean said it was Burgess who had been kicking and stamping on the victim . |
| 14 | Wilkie said it was Alexander she ought to talk to about Van Gogh and Hodgkiss said Alexander was an excellent example of what he was talking about , the effect of this light , the difficulty of fixing colours . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | Somebody was telling me that erm some careers service It was Steve I was talking to in the car the other night . |
| 17 | Thus he expresses the realisation that in the still mourning is a moving power and the lyric ends with another juxtaposition , this time of two positive certainties , of the reality of the vision longed for , and of the recognition that the power to realise it is love which on man 's part essentially expresses its dynamic nature by means of patience , " the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting " . |
| 18 | His bosses thought it was time he got back into |