Example sentences of "[verb] it be about time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Simmonds of laser says that success does n't happen overnight … they 've been in Banbury since the early seventies and have built 150,000 boats … he says it 's about time that people in banbury had the chance to sail on their doorstep and there are lots of local clubs that offer people the chance |
| 2 | I was telling Steven , he says it 's about time some of them 's done well . |
| 3 | The house was old ; her father had said it was about time it was pulled down . |
| 4 | Smith reckons it 's about time Rangers had a good run in Europe . |
| 5 | Paul Gascoigne has been given the freedom to roam forward , David Platt will be looking to add to his remarkable haul of 12 goals from his last 14 games , and Paul Ince reckons it 's about time he opened his England scorecard . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They feel it 's about time to retire . |
| 10 | It had been in his possession for quite a while and Broomhead felt it was about time he sold the thing . |
| 11 | She felt it was about time too , but Patrick Kelly was dangerous for her . |
| 12 | We thought it was about time Shevardnadze was given a platform . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought it was about time I made another . ’ |
| 14 | Maisie Dougall had been listening to her friends going on and she thought it was about time she made a contribution . |
| 15 | It did funny things to her insides — she thought it was about time to study the menu . |
| 16 | ‘ We thought it was about time it came again . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Do n't you think it 's about time you pushed off , Piper ? |
| 18 | ‘ Well , then — ’ Alice walked across the kitchen to the open fireplace and , bending towards the oven at the side of it , she opened the door and took out a casserole dish and placed it on the table before she went on , ‘ If that 's how you 're feeling I think it 's about time you got yourself married . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Do n't you think it 's about time you called me Sarah ? |
| 20 | ‘ Do n't you think it 's about time for a love scene ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Privately , Matt Lynch thinks it is about time that the Republic got on with disposing its own toxic waste . |
| 23 | ‘ I just think it 's about time I moved on , you know . |
| 24 | I think it 's about time I went back home . |
| 25 | 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 ? ’ |
| 26 | In the July following Hilary 's birth , which had taken place in February , Stephen announced at dinner , ‘ I think it 's about time Seth Walton retired . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Personally I think it 's about time you had a bit of life . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I think it 's about time I had a talk with her . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I think it 's about time we were going to chapel , Madam ’ , said her companion . |