Example sentences of "[vb past] it be [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reacting to the killings , the Nobel Peace Prize winner , Desmond Tutu , the Anglican archbishop of Cape Town , said it demonstrated it was time for all South Africa 's politicians ‘ for goodness sake to get off your butts and get on with the business of getting a new constitution for this country . |
| 2 | Afterwards through her affair with the Frenchman she is content because as she says ‘ the linnet found it 's way to the sky ’ . |
| 3 | A long clearance from one the Leeds defenders found it 's way into the Crewe half where upon rolling out into touch the linesman controlled it neatly with his left and passed it back to the returning Crewe player with a neat right foot pass . |
| 4 | er we learnt from America that er a lot of birds that have been caught by cats , die , and everybody 's always assumed it 's shock but the Americans were doing some tests and they found it 's septicaemia from the cat 's teeth . |
| 5 | But he says the hospital changed it 's mind without telling him . |
| 6 | This led many later Greek thinkers to regard musical theory as a branch of mathematics ( together with geometry , arithmetic , and astronomy it constituted what eventually came to be called the quadrivium ) , although this view was not universally accepted , the most influential of those who rejected it being Aristoxenus of Tarentum ( fourth century BC ) . |
| 7 | With its existence thus assumed it is knowledge of the external world which has to be explained . |
| 8 | This state then turned it 's attention to the majority population of Christians and Muslims . |
| 9 | He claimed it was part of a plot to split his country so the West could control its oil supplies . |
| 10 | I guessed it was part of your plot to steer me right away from Rob — in case I corrupt him . ’ |
| 11 | But it will take years , not months , to catch up on decades of neglect , brought about by a regime which year after year spent it 's money on barbed wire and secret police . |
| 12 | Yesterday members of Darlington council planning committee heard it was doubt over the future of the Darlington inner ring road which had delayed the decision . |
| 13 | Got as far as a Smegma , Arizona , where the left front wheel on my truck decided it was time for a vacation . |
| 14 | Five years on , with the Nazis extending their anti-Semitic reach , Willi 's guardian , a Russian Jewess who looked after several refugee children , decided it was time for a mountain trek to more hospitable territory . |
| 15 | Helen continued to circulate ; I decided it was time for a pee and then maybe some food , which took me via the garden ( there was a queue for the downstairs loo , and the upper part of the castle was locked ) to the kitchen . |
| 16 | He 'd just finished helping with the dishes when he decided it was time for high-jinks in the sink . |
| 17 | In the meantime the people on the boat moored between Bob Nudd and myself decided it was time for a move . |
| 18 | One of the tractor drivers ( which had been turning in front of me all day ) decided it was time for dinner . |
| 19 | I decided it was time for a change . ’ |
| 20 | At home he did n't spook at bright blue barrels , a wall or planks , so we decided it was time for our first party . |
| 21 | But one day Miss Havisham decided it was time to apprentice me to Joe , and told me to bring him to her house . |
| 22 | The early rain which shortened the game , meant it was weather for ducks . |
| 23 | Later , I saw it was part of his fear : if I had the means to escape , perhaps I would use it ? |
| 24 | After keeping and breeding Malawi Cichlids for the past fifteen years NANCY SHUTTLE felt it was time for winds of change to blow into the fish house . |
| 25 | A spokesman for Selina said : ‘ She felt it was time for a change . ’ |
| 26 | Berowne 's only explanation had been that he felt it was time for his life to take a new direction . |
| 27 | I believe it would be indefensable to assert that the court leant it 's authority to the test of reasonableness . |
| 28 | and then reached it 's destination in America . |
| 29 | Meeting Jack in his butch horn-rims gave me a feeling of intense familiarity and the first time we banged glasses together in mid-kiss I just knew it was sight at first love . |
| 30 | Meeting Jack in his butch horn-rims gave me a feeling of intense familiarity , and the first time we banged glasses together in mid-kiss I knew it was sight at first love . |