Example sentences of "[pron] be about time we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps maybe a cut off time for when a meeting should finish , which I think we 'd all dearly love , maybe that very common in business , maybe it 's about time we put it into council life as well , so those of progress , not trying to make people feel guilty but trying to serve the people they represent . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's about time we asked Pam to dinner , ’ said Scarlet one evening . |
| 3 | It 's about time we had a pop star called Gordon again . |
| 4 | Alluding to the Prime Minister 's enthusiasm for charters , he said : ‘ It 's about time we had a charter for workers ’ rights . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've had five years of madness — it 's about time we had some sanity in our lives ! ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's about time we considered going public . ’ |
| 8 | It 's about time we loosened up a bit anyway . |
| 9 | It 's about time we realize they 're not useless and done something about them because there are people that are listening to them and there 's people that are voting for them and while people do that , Tylers will get a foothold because they 've already got quite a big one , they 're a big multi-national company and know what they 're doing . |
| 10 | ‘ Billy , it 's about time we did something about the way you look . ’ |
| 11 | Work it 's about time we did it . |
| 12 | 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 ? ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Which is why the eternal words , ‘ Do you think that it 's about time we started a family ? ’ rarely fall from men 's lips . |
| 15 | So we said , Okay ; it 's about time we started having kids of our own . |
| 16 | It is about time we had some real law and order in our own country and made the sentences fit the crime . |
| 17 | It is about time we saw some answers . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It was about time we had a match where everything went right . |