Example sentences of "[verb] it be [adv] time [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The house was old ; her father had said it was about time it was pulled down .
2 Paul Gascoigne has been given the freedom to roam forward , David Platt will be looking to add to his remarkable haul of 12 goals from his last 14 games , and Paul Ince reckons it 's about time he opened his England scorecard .
3 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 .
4 ‘ Anyway , I 've been so lucky in life I reckon it 's about time I started giving something back — and the club 's the perfect place to do it . ’
5 I 'll try to spare you that , but I guess it 's about time I came clean and admitted it 's by no means a one-man show .
6 It had been in his possession for quite a while and Broomhead felt it was about time he sold the thing .
7 ‘ I thought it was about time I made another . ’
8 Maisie Dougall had been listening to her friends going on and she thought it was about time she made a contribution .
9 ‘ We thought it was about time it came again . ’
10 ‘ Do n't you think it 's about time you pushed off , Piper ?
11 ‘ Well , then — ’ Alice walked across the kitchen to the open fireplace and , bending towards the oven at the side of it , she opened the door and took out a casserole dish and placed it on the table before she went on , ‘ If that 's how you 're feeling I think it 's about time you got yourself married . ’
12 ‘ Do n't you think it 's about time you called me Sarah ?
13 That 's why I 'm glad that WISE thing , I mean it 's about time they bloody realized — I 'm convinced that once a woman gets into science she 's just as good as if not better than , any man .
14 Look at my windows and think it 's about time they were cleaned
15 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 ? ’
16 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 .
17 ‘ I think it 's about time we were going to chapel , Madam ’ , said her companion .
18 I think it 's about time we actually put that word back into the dictionary and made it a good word to have .
19 Well I think it 's about time we was going Geoff if you 've
20 ‘ I just think it 's about time I moved on , you know .
21 I think it 's about time I went back home .
22 ‘ I think it 's about time I had a talk with her . ’
23 I think it 's about time I 'm calling because
24 ‘ You know I really think it 's about time I took up smoking again , gentlemen . ’
25 ‘ And I think it 's about time I played one … ’
26 I think it 's about time I got my share of the
27 Personally I think it 's about time you had a bit of life . ’
28 He went to look at the window sill and there was this think it 's about time You did something about these .
29 ‘ Well , I think it 's about time you did some work .
30 I think it 's about time you used some of that .
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