Example sentences of "it be about time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a profession and it 's about time they started to act like professionals . ’ |
| 2 | He said , ‘ We 've been through all this before and it 's about time they were getting things right . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | We , we , we said it 's about time they grew potatoes in that field |
| 7 | Oh good god , it 's about time they got their arses in gear and started doing something properly |
| 8 | Look at my windows and think it 's about time they were cleaned |
| 9 | ‘ Billy , it 's about time we did something about the way you look . ’ |
| 10 | 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 ? ’ |
| 11 | It 's about time we had a pop star called Gordon again . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Alluding to the Prime Minister 's enthusiasm for charters , he said : ‘ It 's about time we had a charter for workers ’ rights . |
| 14 | It 's about time we loosened up a bit anyway . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's about time we considered going public . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It 's about time we asked Pam to dinner , ’ said Scarlet one evening . |
| 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 | ‘ I think it 's about time we were going to chapel , Madam ’ , said her companion . |
| 20 | I think it 's about time we actually put that word back into the dictionary and made it a good word to have . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | so it 's about time we actually saw that the policy was doing |
| 23 | ‘ We 've had five years of madness — it 's about time we had some sanity in our lives ! ’ |
| 24 | Well I think it 's about time we was going Geoff if you 've |
| 25 | Work it 's about time we did it . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Yeah it 's about time it were shaken up now that Labour Party er this government er , erm they 're agreeing to this , this has to be done and that has to be done you put notices up on buses all over Britain no smoking in the buses , now in the big restaurants they 're going to have to between now and July put notices up , no smoking in restaurants |
| 29 | ‘ I just think it 's about time I moved on , you know . |
| 30 | I think it 's about time I went back home . |