Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] it be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I though it was scab , and followed a spraying treatment for that , but it does n't seem to have solved the problem yet . |
| 2 | Then I took a year off , and she kept going on and on at me that it 's time to go back to college , so I did in the end . |
| 3 | Going to Nice and St Tropez showed me that it 's time to leave all this rustic charm and get back to what I know . ’ |
| 4 | It seems to me that it is question of policy which we , as judges , have to decide . |
| 5 | That reminds me that it was Margaret Thatcher who said , Nobody would remember the Good Samaritan , if all he had was good intentions . |
| 6 | I doubt we 'll hear another word from them until it 's lunchtime in Lithuania . |
| 7 | It 's uncomfortable listening , but TGM have clearly decided London life is choking them and it 's time to spew , whatever the consequence . |
| 8 | We open them cos it 's Christmas |
| 9 | No some other people were saying about that , you know , ah that they , you know that they were gon na put in for it but they would n't let them cos it was shop , you know , blah blah blah . |
| 10 | It warns you that it 's time to reach for the stop button . |
| 11 | And the third tells you that it was Isaac Newton who wrote this equation down because it matched what happened every time he played billiards or threw apples around . |
| 12 | but Social Services said to you if it 's profit making |
| 13 | Dad , dad , Auntie has to go somewhere I do n't know where , but she just told me to call you cos it 's quarter past fifteen minutes past six or is it seven ? |
| 14 | He 'll walk you through the formalities and then he 'll sit you somewhere and tell you when it 's time to board . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll wake you when it 's time . ’ |
| 16 | These large , rather crudely decorated , earthenware teapots were made at Coalville and Swadlincote , and many of the East Anglians who went up before the 1914–18 war brought ‘ Burton teapots ’ back with them because it was part of the experience of going to Burton , like buying a new suit . |
| 17 | She also told him that it was prayer that had brought him to her . |
| 18 | Probably he was going to ask for help in obtaining a pardon for Sidacai , and Alexei thought about telling him that it was Burun 's intent that he should be freed . |
| 19 | People clung to our arms as we walked out and an Officer emptied Pernod over Gibeau 's tunic , telling him that it was Christmas and that we had a right to enjoy ourselves . |
| 20 | A chink of light from behind the thick curtain told him that it was morning , and the prospect brought with it a deep sense of foreboding . |
| 21 | Leo , you must tell her that it is Doctor 's Orders that she must not look after her father any more — that it is too much for her — that she need not even see her father until she is quite well enough , and the doctor has himself offered to find a suitable place , so that she will know her father will be well looked after . |
| 22 | Terms of Endearment had her wobbly-eyed and puffy-lipped for days , particularly when I pointed out to her that it was Shirley MacLaine 's performance which won the Oscar , not Debra Winger , for whom Oscars should have been invented . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's a big place for one person — two , ’ she corrected , remembering how he had told her that it was Peter 's home too . |
| 24 | Somewhere a bell rang out in the age-old call of the Angelus , reminding her that it was midday and she had to meet Rohan . |
| 25 | Nor to tell her that it was women like her who prevented girls doing well in sciences . |
| 26 | He reminded her that it was kindness , as she well knew , that had got him into his present pickle . |
| 27 | He 'd destroy her if it was love , tear the heart from her and feast on it as the lion had that day in Auckland . |
| 28 | She had not told him what Ana had said to her and it was time that he knew . |
| 29 | He ate a large tea and Marjorie played snap with him until it was time for bed . |
| 30 | However it is linked to these things because they and it are part of a complex whole , and this rules out the simple correlations between two elements which Engels sought to establish in his ‘ historical ’ discussion . |