Example sentences of "it be [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Film making is highly technical but for it 's inspiration it depends on one 's capacity intuitively and creatively , and it means bloody hard work |
| 2 | ‘ It 's history I look for , and architecture . |
| 3 | ‘ Incidentally , talking about children — maybe it 's time we thought about having some of our own ? ’ he murmured softly . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's time we left for the NEC , ’ Myra said , her eyes darting from Claudia to Roman and back again . |
| 5 | ‘ Dorothy , it 's time we went to Final Assembly . ’ |
| 6 | The rest of Europe has it and it 's time we came into line with them . |
| 7 | NUMEROSO : It 's time we spoke of the details , the kinds of new technology to be tested in the city and the precise questions that the experiment is meant to answer . |
| 8 | Abruptly Lorne halted in mid-sentence , in mid-spangle , and said , " I think it 's time we talked about the death scene , John . " |
| 9 | It 's time you learnt to flamenco . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It 's time you thought about these matters . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It 's time you went to bed . ’ |
| 12 | Right now I think it 's time you went to bed . |
| 13 | It 's time you looked at your inheritance . ’ |
| 14 | Like Claudia , I have an interest in the NEC show , and it 's time I checked on the progress of my entries . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It 's time I went to bed . ’ |
| 16 | And now , clearly , it 's time I turned to the poem itself , having spent most of my hour on the question of how Milton got there . |
| 17 | It is time we looked at her in more detail . |
| 18 | I think it is time we listened to our new brother . |
| 19 | ‘ It is time we moved for concerted action to liberate the press from these laws . ’ |
| 20 | It is time we voted for ourselves for a change . |
| 21 | It is time they pulled in their belts like everyone else is having to . |
| 22 | She may appear to become quite self= centred , and those who have been doing all they can to help her may become exasperated and tempted to hint that it is time she tried to ‘ pull herself together ’ , for by then they too will be feeling the strain . |
| 23 | ‘ It is time you went to bed , ’ she said . |
| 24 | Oh yes Dan used to stand outside calling er get your nice steak or get your nice egg bun and all this , they mostly had barkers , and it was competition you see between the , there was er Smiths the pork butchers , erm Cliffs the pork butchers , that was nearly by McMillans that were I forget and there used to be Olivers shoe shop round there and a Mr used to erm I do n't know whether you 've heard of Percy , no , and erm his father used to manage it and erm behind the Angel Alley you know the Angel Alley , well that was down shop there , and then there were several maid shops and there was the erm grocers , that 's er before you turn o that 's on the same side as Street , it , is it , is it Moors in Street , there 's a hardware shop on the corner now straight in the market place ? |
| 25 | ‘ It was Beck you spoke to when you called ? ’ |
| 26 | At last the golden afternoon was over , and Robbie heard with regret Fen 's decree that it was time they returned to Water Gypsy . |
| 27 | Regret not seeing Prague though she might , perhaps , she began to wonder whether it was time she returned to England . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | She relayed several more messages , conveying by her voice that she thought it was time he appeared in his office . |
| 30 | It fell ill , unknown to the family , and as it was mid-winter it crawled under a neighbour 's balcony to escape from the cold , where it expired . |