Example sentences of "it be [noun] he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | thought it were road he put all four in , and he went down , up |
| 2 | It 's time he came home to me . |
| 3 | Now some of his players are saying it 's time he came clean and declared his intentions . |
| 4 | Listen , Bill — the boy 's been training for a few weeks , and it 's time he did some work . |
| 5 | Yeah Geoff was saying something , bloody hell make it last longer cos I was telling you I says ooh not Coalite it 's briquettes he said |
| 6 | What happened here was apparently an attempt to change strokes into dots ; and it is dots he wrote for the immediate repeat of the theme . |
| 7 | It is time he responded and paid compensation to those farmers , and allowed them to get on with earning their livelihood , instead of telling them that there is nothing for them from the Ministry of Agriculture . |
| 8 | Vinnie decides it is time he spoke . |
| 9 | His voice betrayed him ; she saw at once it was Jake he wanted to talk about . |
| 10 | It was William he loved , William could n't bear to lose . |
| 11 | It was love he felt — and not only for her : for the pathetic room , the faded carpet , the floor boards , the stove , everything . |
| 12 | So he went down and it was Kelly he spoke to and er she said he |
| 13 | Adam suspected that these days Rufus might be quite fastidious about wine , a wine snob even , the kind that savours bouquets and talks about nice little domestic burgundies and so forth , but in those days it was plonk he wanted . |
| 14 | But when he came along to tell her it was dinnertime he persuaded her to come down . |
| 15 | It was Allen he asked as though he believed it was he who had been responsible for the verderer 's disappearance . |
| 16 | Fifteen years later when William saw scores of homeless men sleeping on the streets it was Bramwell he commanded , " Go and do something " . |
| 17 | Shiva had no doubt it was Adam he saw . |
| 18 | Deep down it was Doreen he longed to see working beside him . |
| 19 | When asked if it was silk he replied ‘ I think it is , ’ obligingly donning it at the cash desk to the delight of watching photographers . |
| 20 | Perhaps it was time he told Corbett so . |
| 21 | ‘ Have you any notion who might have killed him , Inspector ? ’ said the Bishop , clearly feeling that , if matters were getting down to fundamentals , it was time he played a part . |
| 22 | That boy needed a lesson — well , perhaps it was time he got one . |
| 23 | The RSPCA described French as callous and inept and it was time he got his comeuppance . |
| 24 | His bosses thought it was time he got back into |
| 25 | He decided it was time he improved his Test record in 1989 when England were mauled at home by the Australians and he lost his wicket several times to Terry Alderman . |
| 26 | ‘ Just a minute , ’ chipped in Dominic , deciding it was time he made his contribution . |
| 27 | After more than ten years he decided that it was time he retrieved some of the money , so from 1921 to 1923 he put the wages of his chauffeur on Arsenal 's expense account and in 1926 charged the club £125 for hiring , over two years , a motor car . |
| 28 | But he had a lot to carry and it was time he went . |
| 29 | It was time he came down to earth with a bump , she thought , literally . |
| 30 | Dalgliesh felt that it was time he contributed something to the speculation . |