Example sentences of "be [adv] time [pers pn] [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 | We , we , we said it 's about time they grew potatoes in that field |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 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 | 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 | ‘ Billy , it 's about time we did something about the way you look . ’ |
| 17 | Work it 's about time we did it . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 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 | He is proposing , which is the last thing you would find the United States , statutory works councils , statutory minimum wage , compulsory working week , it 's about time he dropped those proposals which would cost millions of jobs . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ Still , it 's about time he learned a few home truths , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 26 | Well it 's about time you cut up David 's hair . |
| 27 | Yeah , so I think oh well , it 's about time you came . |
| 28 | It 's about time you treated yoursen . |
| 29 | It 's about time you realised how serious it all is and the intolerable position you 've put me in with your irrational behaviour . |
| 30 | Parent : It 's about time you tidied up your socks . |