Example sentences of "it be about time we [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's about time we asked Pam to dinner , ’ said Scarlet one evening . |
| 2 | It 's about time we had a pop star called Gordon again . |
| 3 | Alluding to the Prime Minister 's enthusiasm for charters , he said : ‘ It 's about time we had a charter for workers ’ rights . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've had five years of madness — it 's about time we had some sanity in our lives ! ’ |
| 5 | It 's about time we got something , do n't , you know for months we scratched round looking like we 're busy , now we 're meeting ourselves backwards , coming backwards . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's about time we considered going public . ’ |
| 7 | It 's about time we loosened up a bit anyway . |
| 8 | ‘ Billy , it 's about time we did something about the way you look . ’ |
| 9 | Work it 's about time we did it . |
| 10 | Later they went to a jazz club in the King 's Road — Uncle Ted had never seen black walls before — where Eva slyly said to Dad , ‘ I think it 's about time we moved to London , do n't you ? ’ |
| 11 | This is something that 's been on my mind for a very long time and I mean , I , I , I think it 's about time we started getting rid of these things and updating our own toilets you know . |
| 12 | Which is why the eternal words , ‘ Do you think that it 's about time we started a family ? ’ rarely fall from men 's lips . |
| 13 | So we said , Okay ; it 's about time we started having kids of our own . |
| 14 | It is about time we had some real law and order in our own country and made the sentences fit the crime . |
| 15 | It is about time we saw some answers . |
| 16 | It is too easy to dwell on the environmental down-side of the industry and I believe it is about time we brought home to people the improvements we bring to their life-style . |
| 17 | It was about time we had a match where everything went right . |