Example sentences of "[pron] be time that [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 But if you do have pe people will say if you do h have those weaknesses and if er there were times that he could was quite up to the joshing and the name calling , there were times when he was n't , the very fact that there were times when he was n't , does n't that tell you that perhaps the Army was n't the place for him ?
2 It 's time that they looked at themselves .
3 Before starting comrades I think it 's time that we nailed a couple of lies that are being put about , about this union and other trade unions .
4 ‘ I 've been on 10 or 11 tours in my career and it 's time that I spent a little while with my family .
5 Well do you think it 's time that you started taking time off in lieu ?
6 It is time that we turned to the inside of our book and began to explore its mysteries and terminology .
7 The data are piling up thick and fast , and it is time that we paused to examine how far we have travelled and which direction we should now follow .
8 Dr Dowling thinks that it is time that we stopped ‘ tinkering at the edges of the problem ’ of the preregistration year and totally rethought our responses to it .
9 Erm we 've we 've actually developed social housing really rather as it 's been an opportunity we 've grabbed it and we 've done it , you know , some of it 's been very very good an and nobody 's knocking that but I think it is time that we took stock and actually had a a proper policy and a proper strategy on sa on social housing .
10 We sneer at the European Parliament , but it is time that we looked at Europe in other than a partisan way — ’ Ha ha , ha .
11 It is time that we started reading and hearing more of the good people can do for themselves and for others .
12 It is time that they had a backing .
13 It is time that he visited his constituency and had a look around .
14 He is flipping useless and it is time that he was looking for another job .
15 Maybe it is time that I came in out of the storm . "
16 I resigned from the family planning about seven years ago when my husband retired , as I say because he used to help me very much and when he retired and my children had all married I felt it was time that I should retire too .
17 She had not told him what Ana had said to her and it was time that he knew .
18 But she had an old-fashioned regard for the truth ; and besides it was time that she gave Strauss another chance .
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