Example sentences of "it be [adv] time we " 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 | ‘ Billy , it 's about time we did something about the way you look . ’ |
| 3 | 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 ? ’ |
| 4 | It 's about time we had a pop star called Gordon again . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Alluding to the Prime Minister 's enthusiasm for charters , he said : ‘ It 's about time we had a charter for workers ’ rights . |
| 7 | It 's about time we loosened up a bit anyway . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's about time we considered going public . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It 's about time we asked Pam to dinner , ’ said Scarlet one evening . |
| 10 | Which is why the eternal words , ‘ Do you think that it 's about time we started a family ? ’ rarely fall from men 's lips . |
| 11 | So we said , Okay ; it 's about time we started having kids of our own . |
| 12 | ‘ I think it 's about time we were going to chapel , Madam ’ , said her companion . |
| 13 | I think it 's about time we actually put that word back into the dictionary and made it a good word to have . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | so it 's about time we actually saw that the policy was doing |
| 16 | ‘ We 've had five years of madness — it 's about time we had some sanity in our lives ! ’ |
| 17 | Well I think it 's about time we was going Geoff if you 've |
| 18 | Work it 's about time we did it . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It is about time we had some real law and order in our own country and made the sentences fit the crime . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It is about time we saw some answers . |
| 24 | It was about time we had a match where everything went right . |