Example sentences of "[vb base] it be [adv] time [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Look at my windows and think it 's about time they were cleaned |
6 | 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 ? ’ |
7 | 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 . |
8 | ‘ I think it 's about time we were going to chapel , Madam ’ , said her companion . |
9 | I think it 's about time we actually put that word back into the dictionary and made it a good word to have . |
10 | Well I think it 's about time we was going Geoff if you 've |
11 | ‘ I just think it 's about time I moved on , you know . |
12 | I think it 's about time I went back home . |
13 | ‘ I think it 's about time I had a talk with her . ’ |
14 | I think it 's about time I 'm calling because |
15 | ‘ You know I really think it 's about time I took up smoking again , gentlemen . ’ |
16 | ‘ And I think it 's about time I played one … ’ |
17 | I think it 's about time I got my share of the |
18 | Personally I think it 's about time you had a bit of life . ’ |
19 | He went to look at the window sill and there was this think it 's about time You did something about these . |
20 | ‘ Well , I think it 's about time you did some work . |
21 | I think it 's about time you used some of that . |
22 | ‘ Listen , Maurice , as I say I am now playing the lead in this show , and I think it is about time you sorted out some deal on the money I get for doing it . ’ |
23 | ‘ My dear , since you will be taking over next week , I think it is about time I explained our system for dealing with our more special customers . |
24 | Work it 's about time we did it . |