Example sentences of "high time [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 High time we heard them , I think .
2 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 .
3 It is high time we realised that we are lagging behind and that roads alone can not solve our problem .
4 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 .
5 It is high time we ceased to allow people to talk about rugby union as a minority sport — even a post-World Cup modest club match on Rugby Special rated two million viewers .
6 It 's high time we kept some of the old G M W rules .
7 It is high time we renewed our acquaintance with young Benjamin Titford , William Charles 's younger brother .
8 High time they had a fall , eh ? ’
9 ‘ It 's high time somebody did — and how you tolerate her I 'll never know .
10 It was high time someone took his young sister down a peg .
11 High time someone started asking a few awkward questions , ’ says his neighbour , who turns out to be an expert in Moral Law .
12 She 'd been here four days and it was high time she wrote to him .
13 It was high time she got down to serious thought about her doctorate .
14 And it was high time she retired .
15 If this sounds familiar , then it 's high time you took a fresh look at your hair .
16 Well , Paul , as a respectable married man it 's high time you went home .
17 It is almost summer , high time you decamped for a fortnight .
18 You presented me with a daughter lately it 's high time you had a present yourself . ’
19 ‘ Well , I think it 's high time you stopped looking like something out of the last century , do n't you , my sweet ? ’ her stepmother said .
20 ‘ Then it 's high time you stopped behaving like a child , young lady , ’ her father said .
21 ‘ I think it 's high time you stopped making snap judgements , Mr Bryce , especially as the conclusions you leap to are invariably the wrong ones . ’
22 Well , it 's high time you did , Harris .
23 " Then I reckon it 's high time you did .
24 He was twenty-one — a man — and it was high time he started living his life to the full .
25 Turning to face Luce , his hands thrust into the pockets of his beige trousers , he went on , ‘ Last year I decided it was high time I had a wife and family .
26 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 .
27 Like you , it 's high time I returned to the real world . ’
28 And while I continued to make my contribution , I really did feel it was high time I started looking out for number one .
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