Example sentences of "[pron] be time [that] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's time that they looked at themselves . |
| 2 | Before starting comrades I think it 's time that we nailed a couple of lies that are being put about , about this union and other trade unions . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been on 10 or 11 tours in my career and it 's time that I spent a little while with my family . |
| 4 | Well do you think it 's time that you started taking time off in lieu ? |
| 5 | We sneer at the European Parliament , but it is time that we looked at Europe in other than a partisan way — ’ Ha ha , ha . |
| 6 | Erm we 've we 've actually developed social housing really rather as it 's been an opportunity we 've grabbed it and we 've done it , you know , some of it 's been very very good an and nobody 's knocking that but I think it is time that we took stock and actually had a a proper policy and a proper strategy on sa on social housing . |
| 7 | The data are piling up thick and fast , and it is time that we paused to examine how far we have travelled and which direction we should now follow . |
| 8 | Dr Dowling thinks that it is time that we stopped ‘ tinkering at the edges of the problem ’ of the preregistration year and totally rethought our responses to it . |
| 9 | It is time that we turned to the inside of our book and began to explore its mysteries and terminology . |
| 10 | It is time that we started reading and hearing more of the good people can do for themselves and for others . |
| 11 | It is time that they had a backing . |
| 12 | It is time that he visited his constituency and had a look around . |
| 13 | Maybe it is time that I came in out of the storm . " |
| 14 | She had not told him what Ana had said to her and it was time that he knew . |
| 15 | But she had an old-fashioned regard for the truth ; and besides it was time that she gave Strauss another chance . |