Example sentences of "it be [adv] time [pron] [verb] " 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's about time we asked Pam to dinner , ’ said Scarlet one evening . |
| 9 | It 's about time we had a pop star called Gordon again . |
| 10 | Alluding to the Prime Minister 's enthusiasm for charters , he said : ‘ It 's about time we had a charter for workers ’ rights . |
| 11 | ‘ We 've had five years of madness — it 's about time we had some sanity in our lives ! ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's about time we considered going public . ’ |
| 14 | It 's about time we loosened up a bit anyway . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Billy , it 's about time we did something about the way you look . ’ |
| 17 | Work it 's about time we did it . |
| 18 | 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 ? ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Which is why the eternal words , ‘ Do you think that it 's about time we started a family ? ’ rarely fall from men 's lips . |
| 21 | So we said , Okay ; it 's about time we started having kids of our own . |
| 22 | It 's about time somebody killed this ‘ debate ’ dead in its tracks , even if it meant stating the obvious ; that postmodernism is nothing more than Situationism without the socialism , the archetypal assimilation of revolutionary technique and terminology . |
| 23 | I said it 's about time somebody started on these kids I mean the been a television programme this morning about people living in their homes afraid of going out because they 're getting molested and and robbed , and one thing and another ! |
| 24 | We can do without anybody but this movement in that document , and it 's about time somebody starts listening . |
| 25 | It 's about time somebody answered it ! |
| 26 | It 's about time I hoovered that dump . |
| 27 | I think it 's about time I went back home . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's about time I went to the dogs again . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I was hoping there was , cos it 's about time I got back home — it 's getting pretty late . |