Example sentences of "[conj] it be [adj] time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bob reminds me — quite rightly — that it is high time I wrote to you , to say how nice it was to see you both , if only briefly . |
| 2 | He went up , and it 's first time he 'd seen her for a while and she said something about , oh he was supposed to have something but he got to hear this well it 's got nothing to do with all the others . |
| 3 | It is a little close to Christmas , but that seems a good excuse for a party and it 's high time we entertained some of our friends . |
| 4 | But you 're not a child any more , you see , and it 's high time you … ’ |
| 5 | The bloke 's records are all rubbish and it 's high time you all admitted it . |
| 6 | ‘ I does know it — and it 's high time you was thinking of getting wed , my girl . |
| 7 | There are many lessons we can learn from other animals , to our great and continuing advantage , and it is high time we took a little while to sit and stare at the other creatures with which we share the earth . |
| 8 | He was twenty-one — a man — and it was high time he started living his life to the full . |
| 9 | And it was high time she retired . |
| 10 | She 'd been here four days and it was high time she wrote to him . |
| 11 | I said could n't care less if it 's triple time I 'm not coming in on a Sunday . |