Example sentences of "it be [noun] she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oliver said that could have been easily accomplished by telling Shildon where they really were and if it were Shildon she had heard going through a desk in the typists ' room he must already have found out . |
| 2 | Whether it were coat she had on or not |
| 3 | If it 's pasta she comes here and asks us to cook it for her . |
| 4 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 5 | ‘ It 's idlitis she 's got . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's shame she ran so badly , but at least we know why . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I thought to myself , Martha must be growing up now , it 's time she left the country and came to live with me and go to a good school . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't you think it 's time she realized he did ? ’ |
| 9 | It 's time she did it by herself . |
| 10 | And it is Britain she thanks for the startling transformation and thinks will keep her at the top . |
| 11 | Liberal leader Paddy Ashdown believes it is time she coughed up . |
| 12 | Whereas your letters indicate that loyal subjects who have previously supported the Monarchy now feel that mistakes need to be acknowledged and if Her Majesty is not to be seen as hopelessly out of touch and out of date it is time she stood up and publicly said sorry . |
| 13 | She may appear to become quite self= centred , and those who have been doing all they can to help her may become exasperated and tempted to hint that it is time she tried to ‘ pull herself together ’ , for by then they too will be feeling the strain . |
| 14 | Perhaps , she thought later , it was Rosington she fell in love with , not Hubert . |
| 15 | And if some malicious god had n't decreed it was Slane she had to go to , or Slane where he lived , things might have been very different . |
| 16 | It was anger she felt . |
| 17 | ‘ They were horrible , ’ she cried , wrinkling her nose in distaste ; even so , her tone was that of a woman of the world and it was evident it was Martin she found disgusting , not the drawings . |
| 18 | Then she discovered that it was Travis she had to thank that the news of her engagement to his cousin was all over Vasey 's , as , still smiling , he stated , ‘ Hope you do n't mind , Naylor , but I came in earlier to have a quick word with Leith , and could n't resist telling her assistant that a possible reason for Leith being late this morning could be her getting engaged to you at the weekend . ’ |
| 19 | It was death she had been expecting , after all . |
| 20 | Dame Sybil earned her everlasting gratitude by suggesting that it was time she retire . |
| 21 | He made quite a fuss about it , saying it was time she left the nest , stood up to the forceful Elise and lived her own life . |
| 22 | her uncle and aunt decided it was time she took a husband , their choice for her being Manfro Draper , a posh-rat like herself . |
| 23 | Regret not seeing Prague though she might , perhaps , she began to wonder whether it was time she returned to England . |
| 24 | Jessamy woke up on the morning of her twenty-fourth birthday and decided it was time she put her life in order . |
| 25 | It was time she dressed and saw to his meal . |
| 26 | It was time she surfaced and told him what she was up to . |
| 27 | This time Reception said they had run out of vases and , whatever he 'd done , did n't she think it was time she forgave him ? |
| 28 | It was time she did a bit of hurting , too . |
| 29 | Perhaps her family were right ; maybe it was time she settled down . |
| 30 | The editor knew nothing of the story of Boyd 's promotion , about to be featured in the financial section , and she said firmly that it was Henry she wanted . |