Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] be [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The Collector knew it was time he hurried downstairs … he had expected that something like this would happen , but not so quickly .
2 The next time the phone rings it 's Charles Aught .
3 her uncle and aunt decided it was time she took a husband , their choice for her being Manfro Draper , a posh-rat like herself .
4 Vinnie decides it is time he spoke .
5 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 " .
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