Example sentences of "it [be] [noun] [prep] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | my holiday was later as usual and longer so , you know and there was a couple of other things not related to this which I 'd thought of doing and it 's sort of they evaporated , but erm , we did spend time talking to Ingy earlier in the year , you know , about publicity and I gave her lists of well such as things obvious things like Playback and Newsbeat |
| 2 | By Sunday evening , when it was time for them to leave and the three of them were piling into the Bentley , what she felt inside her , by any definition , was far more than simply sexual excitement . |
| 3 | When it was time for them to go , she rolled up the carpet full of soil and put it in her bedroom . |
| 4 | When Loc , with another worried glance in Jacques Devraux 's direction , insisted it was time for them to go to bed , Paul galloped across the clearing with little Hoc on his shoulders and dumped the boy squealing with laughter on his sleeping mat . |
| 5 | When Iris announced that it was time for them to return , Jack insisted on walking them back . |
| 6 | It was time for them to put their houses in order , ‘ and for the Home Secretary to insist they do ’ . |