Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] time [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ It 's also time I got down to thinking positively about this show . |
2 | Two Chinese teachers have just graduated from an international centre in Hebrew They say both China and Israel have ancient traditions , and it 's about time they got to know more about each other . |
3 | Oh good god , it 's about time they got their arses in gear and started doing something properly |
4 | It 's about time they brought someone like yourself in to sort it out — no offence meant to you , Mr Aplin , but Mr Eddy ‘ ere 's the best detective they 've got up at Scotland Yard , make no mistake about that . ’ |
5 | We , we , we said it 's about time they grew potatoes in that field |
6 | It 's a profession and it 's about time they started to act like professionals . ’ |
7 | ‘ It 's about time we asked Pam to dinner , ’ said Scarlet one evening . |
8 | It 's about time we had a pop star called Gordon again . |
9 | Alluding to the Prime Minister 's enthusiasm for charters , he said : ‘ It 's about time we had a charter for workers ’ rights . |
10 | ‘ We 've had five years of madness — it 's about time we had some sanity in our lives ! ’ |
11 | 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 . |
12 | ‘ It 's about time we considered going public . ’ |
13 | It 's about time we loosened up a bit anyway . |
14 | ‘ Billy , it 's about time we did something about the way you look . ’ |
15 | Work it 's about time we did it . |
16 | 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 ? ’ |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Which is why the eternal words , ‘ Do you think that it 's about time we started a family ? ’ rarely fall from men 's lips . |
19 | So we said , Okay ; it 's about time we started having kids of our own . |
20 | It 's about time I hoovered that dump . |
21 | I think it 's about time I went back home . |
22 | ‘ It 's about time I went to the dogs again . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | I was hoping there was , cos it 's about time I got back home — it 's getting pretty late . |
25 | Anyway , we 've finished all we can eat of this Cambozola , and the wine bottle is only good for sticking candles in , and we are still sitting on the carpet lit by one small lamp somewhere over in the corner , and she keeps filling in the pauses by staring into my eyes as if she 's checking I do n't wear false eyelashes , and I start to think it 's about time I got up off the floor . |
26 | I think it 's about time I got my share of the |
27 | ‘ And I think it 's about time I played one … ’ |
28 | ‘ You know I really think it 's about time I took up smoking again , gentlemen . ’ |
29 | ‘ It 's about time I took a stroll round the club . |
30 | ‘ I think it 's about time I had a talk with her . ’ |