Example sentences of "it be [noun sg] they " in BNC.

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1 They know it 's sympathy they need .
2 Honestly , now it 's price they are now .
3 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 .
4 I do n't think they know it 's Blagg they 're looking for , and if they do n't know that , they wo n't know about Tanner .
5 I really think it 's time they allowed me to join .
6 Sliwa said : ‘ If people are going to like you it 's time they know the truth .
7 He said the flights amounted to £6,000 of taxpayers ' money : ‘ It 's time they paid the money back . ’
8 It 's time they earned their wages ! ’
9 For it 's time they saw more of me in the south , Iago , where I shall not be expected .
10 It 's time they joined the game . ’
11 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 .
12 They say it 's time they were paid for doing a full time job , which dominates their lives and saves the state thirty billion pounds each year …
13 think it 's time they
14 But it is time they recognised the PLO as the real representative of the Palestinian people . ’
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 " It is time they both were in bed . "
18 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 .
19 I , I said near time , I advising people it 's nearly time , when it is time they will most certainly know and emphatically it 's time .
20 It is time they started delivering on their promise . ’
21 It is time they showed up and faced the music , ’ he said .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 They had dug up those bones at Wyvis Hall and had decided it was murder they were investigating .
25 It was shrapnel they call it .
26 It was time they stopped designing buildings without a thought for the people who had to live in them , he said .
27 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 .
28 She took in the scene and told Seth it was time they straightened out .
29 Already the warmth was draining from the air and he knew that it was time they were moving .
30 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 .
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