Example sentences of "[subord] it be [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm one of the things that I like to emphasize er at this stage is that although it 's self employed it is as close to being employed as you can possibly be with a company but then but still destined by your own efforts to earn earn the money . |
| 2 | No sooner was I home and motherly than it was time to dress up and head back to the theatre . |
| 3 | ‘ All internment is selective , so it is nonsense to describe it in that way . |
| 4 | ‘ And now , ’ he said , ‘ you are rested and fed and — how do you English say ? — watered , so it is time to learn of each other . ’ |
| 5 | The first is that spring is in the air , so it 's time to dust away the winter cobwebs and treat yourself to a new look ! |
| 6 | ‘ So it 's time to see how an emperor fights . ’ |
| 7 | Spring is here so it 's time to wave goodbye to winter and go for a splash of colour . |
| 8 | Thank you we 'll just put it on the little table here , look for a bit until it 's time to put it on . |
| 9 | Day Eight : You are at leisure until it 's time to leave the Hotelship and catch your scheduled flight back to London Heathrow from Dresden airport . |
| 10 | It 's an easy walk up a tarmac estate road to the south-east of the hotel , which gently gains height until it 's time to strike up the hillside towards Munro number one . |
| 11 | It seems also to have a special magnetism for their children , who look forward to spending all day playing video games until it 's time to try and get served by a barman who does n't notice they are 15 and only four feet ten . |
| 12 | Obviously , you 'll be hiding it in a corner until it 's time to make your move . |
| 13 | Windowboxes and other containers often begin to run out of flower power towards the end of summer , but it is usually possible to give them a boost to sustain interest until it is time to plant them up for a spring display . |
| 14 | This keeps him happy until it is time to go to the nursery by which time she has cleared up the mess . |
| 15 | until it is time to do something with them . |
| 16 | Nina , on the other hand , parties all night , often until it is time to catch the 9 a.m. train to London . |
| 17 | Although he had n't sold a book in weeks he would happily sit at the counter engrossed in his beloved William Blake until it was time to turn the sign on the front door from ‘ Open ’ to ‘ Closed ’ . |
| 18 | The ring I 'd bought was placed on a plum-coloured cushion made of velvet and winked at us until it was time to put it on Gill 's finger . |
| 19 | She had her own chair brought to that particular paddock right at the start of the day and never moved until it was time to go home . |
| 20 | He returned to his boy and the two of them continued with their play until it was time to go home for tea . |
| 21 | He would work until it was time to go home , on the new warhead design that would replace the free-fall WE-177 bomb with an air-launched cruise system . |
| 22 | He had some notion of hiding in the ruins until it was time to go to the theatre . |
| 23 | In fact there were very few guide dogs at that time and erm I 've never felt that erm it 's , I mean maybe just my erm silliness really but I , I never wanted a dog lying about all day because once at the office I stayed put as it were until it was time to go home and I could have taken the dog I suppose during the lunch hour but I preferred that time to erm to reading |
| 24 | Alain carefully ignored her until it was time to go and she watched his car sweep from the house with very mixed feelings . |
| 25 | Instead he read a paper he 'd bought in Trieste and forgotten to throw away , immersing himself in a debate over the council 's delay in resurfacing the streets in an outlying zone of the city until it was time to go to work . |
| 26 | At home I might have fed it to the fish , but here I felt sorry for it and watched until it was time to move on . |
| 27 | Until it was time to retire , the guests occupied themselves variously with chess , gramophone records and a comparison of their ailments . |
| 28 | They left the coast after they had harvested any catch-crops and grazed the stubble , to arrive in the south for the date harvest , feeding their animals on fodder-dates and forage crops until it was time to return north . |
| 29 | She stayed at the back of a shop until it was time to come out cautiously and find an unoccupied phone again . |
| 30 | Woosnam feared that he would miss the cut , then have to sit around watching re-runs on TV of The Lucille Ball Show until it was time to help slip the green jacket on the new champion . |