Example sentences of "it be [noun sg] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They know it 's sympathy they need . |
| 2 | Their skin will be very flushed and dry you 'll get deep sighing and this is the one you 'll get the smell of acetone , not always , you know the nail varnish smell , the pear drops , and then from there they 'll get , they 'll go into gradual I 've put coma there , but gradual unconsciousness treatment the same sugar , if it 's sugar they want they 'll come round almost immediately , if it 's , they 've already got too much well you have , that little bit 's not going to make them any worse , they 've got to go to hospital anyway . |
| 3 | For it 's time they saw more of me in the south , Iago , where I shall not be expected . |
| 4 | Sliwa said : ‘ If people are going to like you it 's time they know the truth . |
| 5 | I really think it 's time they allowed me to join . |
| 6 | It 's time they earned their wages ! ’ |
| 7 | Comrades , it 's time that this union , along with other trade unions , made it absolutely clear to the Labour leadership , we are the Labour Party , it is us that gives resources , our time , our money , everything to try and get them elected and it 's time they stopped kicking us in the teeth at times such as this . |
| 8 | It 's time they joined the game . ’ |
| 9 | He said the flights amounted to £6,000 of taxpayers ' money : ‘ It 's time they paid the money back . ’ |
| 10 | I think if parents are concerned and feel that their child is brighter than his performance shows , then it is time they took some action . |
| 11 | But it is time they recognised the PLO as the real representative of the Palestinian people . ’ |
| 12 | Their record on crime is a disaster , and it is time they gave way to a Government who have the imagination and policies to tackle crime fundamentally , not at the periphery . |
| 13 | ‘ It is time they showed up and faced the music , ’ he said . |
| 14 | It is time they started delivering on their promise . ’ |
| 15 | It is time they pulled in their belts like everyone else is having to . |
| 16 | It is time they forgot their obsession with the money markets and concentrated on real issues , like saving the NHS . |
| 17 | When it was midnight they took the body of the Cid , fastened to the saddle as it was , and placed it upon his horse Bavieca , and fastened the saddle well : and the body sate so upright and well that it seemed as if he was alive . |
| 18 | It was shrapnel they call it . |
| 19 | At last the golden afternoon was over , and Robbie heard with regret Fen 's decree that it was time they returned to Water Gypsy . |
| 20 | It was time they transferred their attentions from ‘ the municipal privy ’ to suites at top hotels where those sort of drugs deals are carried out . |
| 21 | Perhaps , thought Theodora dispassionately , it was time they had to answer advertisements for their posts , satisfy a set of agreed criteria and become answerable to those who paid for their upkeep . |
| 22 | Leith and Sebastian had been in their flat a month when Sebastian declared it was time they had a flat-warming party . |
| 23 | She took in the scene and told Seth it was time they straightened out . |
| 24 | It was time they stopped designing buildings without a thought for the people who had to live in them , he said . |
| 25 | It seemed to Annie that no sooner had Tamar arrived in the market hall , than Goodison was by her side , suggesting that it was time they started off for home . |
| 26 | It was madness they had stayed , drank still , and deeply , of the heady wine . |
| 27 | The instigators of the revolt were Hugh and Matfrid , the dis-honoured of 828 : it was Pippin they turned to first ; and when Charles 's mother Judith was taken from her husband 's side , and accused of adultery with Bernard , she was sent to custody in Aquitaine , at Ste-Croix , Poitiers . |