Example sentences of "[verb] it 's 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 | Smith reckons it 's about time Rangers had a good run in Europe . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They feel it 's about time to retire . |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't you think it 's about time you pushed off , Piper ? |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't you think it 's about time you called me Sarah ? |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't you think it 's about time for a love scene ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I just think it 's about time I moved on , you know . |
| 14 | I think it 's about time I went back home . |
| 15 | 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 ? ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Personally I think it 's about time you had a bit of life . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I think it 's about time I had a talk with her . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I think it 's about time we were going to chapel , Madam ’ , said her companion . |
| 21 | He went to look at the window sill and there was this think it 's about time You did something about these . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , I think it 's about time you did some work . |
| 23 | I think it 's about time I 'm calling because |
| 24 | I think it 's about time we actually put that word back into the dictionary and made it a good word to have . |
| 25 | ‘ You know I really think it 's about time I took up smoking again , gentlemen . ’ |
| 26 | I think it 's about time that you stopped bleating . |
| 27 | I think it 's about time that you stopped blaming , and I think it 's about time that you started accepting re le responsibility that you are in it and getting on and making this council . |
| 28 | I think it 's about time that you stopped blaming , and I think it 's about time that you started accepting re le responsibility that you are in it and getting on and making this council . |
| 29 | It 's wrong , Mr Deputy Speaker , if they 're living in this country erm on a semi-permanent basis and happen to have been here last October they 'll have a vote so will any everybody else who 's a citizen of the European union , so will peers of the realm who happen to be living elsewhere whether they 're in this country or outside this country under these regulations and previous regulations , have a vote in the European elections and I think it 's wholly wrong that erm citizens of other European countries namely France because that 's the one and it 's remarkable is it not that France is the one that 's gon na be the cause of this whole edifice collapsing if we do n't submit to their extra demands but citizens of France who are citizens living in their colonies , as I 've said in South America , the West Indies and the Pacific , will have a vote in the European elections on June the ninth and yet we have got citizens for whom we are responsible for in this house , we can not shirk it onto anyone else , we deny them the responsibility and I think it 's about time the house addressed this matter . |
| 30 | ‘ I think it 's about time that you stopped sulking , ’ Ross drawled coolly . |