Example sentences of "it be [adv] time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside , the daylight sludge is darkening , and it 's nearly time we will be allowed back in that depressing hole . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's also time I got down to thinking positively about this show . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's really time I was going , madame . |
| 4 | The music industry is a rip-off and it 's about time something is done about it ! |
| 5 | It 's about time something was done to help people who have this complaint . |
| 6 | It 's a profession and it 's about time they started to act like professionals . ’ |
| 7 | He said , ‘ We 've been through all this before and it 's about time they were getting things right . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We , we , we said it 's about time they grew potatoes in that field |
| 12 | Oh good god , it 's about time they got their arses in gear and started doing something properly |
| 13 | Look at my windows and think it 's about time they were cleaned |
| 14 | ‘ Billy , it 's about time we did something about the way you look . ’ |
| 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 | It 's about time we had a pop star called Gordon again . |
| 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 | Alluding to the Prime Minister 's enthusiasm for charters , he said : ‘ It 's about time we had a charter for workers ’ rights . |
| 19 | It 's about time we loosened up a bit anyway . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's about time we considered going public . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It 's about time we asked Pam to dinner , ’ said Scarlet one evening . |
| 22 | Which is why the eternal words , ‘ Do you think that it 's about time we started a family ? ’ rarely fall from men 's lips . |
| 23 | So we said , Okay ; it 's about time we started having kids of our own . |
| 24 | ‘ I think it 's about time we were going to chapel , Madam ’ , said her companion . |
| 25 | I think it 's about time we actually put that word back into the dictionary and made it a good word to have . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | so it 's about time we actually saw that the policy was doing |
| 28 | ‘ We 've had five years of madness — it 's about time we had some sanity in our lives ! ’ |
| 29 | Well I think it 's about time we was going Geoff if you 've |
| 30 | Work it 's about time we did it . |