Example sentences of "be about time [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Oh good god , it 's about time they got their arses in gear and started doing something properly |
3 | We , we , we said it 's about time they grew potatoes in that field |
4 | 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 . ’ |
5 | It 's a profession and it 's about time they started to act like professionals . ’ |
6 | ‘ It 's about time we asked Pam to dinner , ’ said Scarlet one evening . |
7 | It 's about time we had a pop star called Gordon again . |
8 | Alluding to the Prime Minister 's enthusiasm for charters , he said : ‘ It 's about time we had a charter for workers ’ rights . |
9 | ‘ We 've had five years of madness — it 's about time we had some sanity in our lives ! ’ |
10 | 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 . |
11 | ‘ It 's about time we considered going public . ’ |
12 | It 's about time we loosened up a bit anyway . |
13 | 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 ? ’ |
14 | ‘ Billy , it 's about time we did something about the way you look . ’ |
15 | Work it 's about time we did it . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Which is why the eternal words , ‘ Do you think that it 's about time we started a family ? ’ rarely fall from men 's lips . |
18 | So we said , Okay ; it 's about time we started having kids of our own . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | ‘ Still , it 's about time he learned a few home truths , do n't you think ? ’ |
22 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
23 | Yeah , so I think oh well , it 's about time you came . |
24 | It 's about time you realised how serious it all is and the intolerable position you 've put me in with your irrational behaviour . |
25 | Parent : It 's about time you tidied up your socks . |
26 | ‘ I was being sarcastic , as well you know , and it 's about time you knew that Steve and I are n't — . ’ |
27 | It 's about time you saw some financial reward for your work and responsibility . ’ |
28 | It 's about time you finished that beer . |
29 | A : It 's about time you went home . |
30 | Personally I think it 's about time you had a bit of life . ’ |