Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] it be [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hesitated before slipping the President 's boxer shorts down but it was part of the job . |
| 2 | I was famous at 18 so knew early on that it was part of my job description . ’ |
| 3 | Then , when the show was over and it was time for everyone to wake up and go home , they opened up the roof — the whole thing rolls back to one side . |
| 4 | Now the churching was over and it was time for the baptism to begin . |
| 5 | I left before the tour was over because it was time for Mott The Hoople to come and tour and I 'd been designated as the person to take care of them , so I went off before it was over . |
| 6 | And you find more or more or less forceful ways of of giving directives , and one way of making some things perhaps a bit less forceful is to put a tag question on cos it 's sort of adding a sort of pleading note on to it , to ask somebody to do it , I think . |
| 7 | Or perhaps the car has really given up and it 's time for a new , or good second-hand one . |
| 8 | After breakfast , we go back to our rooms and get locked up until it 's time for dinner . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | And he was always up before it was time for her to call him . |
| 11 | It came at him again , and he could just make out that it was part of his bunk , one of the side panels . |
| 12 | David Cooper of Genetic Resources Action International , based in Barcelona , pointed out that it was farmers in West Africa who first noted the resistance of some varieties of cowpea to insects and who nurtured superior varieties that carried this characteristic . |
| 13 | And I have a sister-in-law who used to play for a women 's football team so she 's very interested and a as soon as there 's a big game on , on the satellite they all come round and it 's sort of into the kitchen you can make the the half time |