Example sentences of "[adv] [noun sg] for [pers pn] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was tall and had a slender enough waist for him to have spanned it with his hands , and he was amazed at how strongly he wished he could be given the chance . |
| 2 | it 's not like a good enough reason for him to call the characters these names , like if they do n't have that much significance . |
| 3 | And you know I think if we can , that 's a big enough task for us to take on here . |
| 4 | It was finally time for me to pack up my tent and vanish into the summer afternoon . |
| 5 | But I have to admit that in the past I have been offended by people saying that it 's just formula for me to play melodies and structures that come to me very naturally . |
| 6 | When I visited Aunt Louise there was just time for us to have a meal in one of the High Street cafés before I caught the bus home . |
| 7 | Is it not time for him to reconsider his whole security policy ? |
| 8 | Time was now important to him : it had been a lazy year and , as he had told Levy , there was still work for him to do . |
| 9 | There was still food for them to eat and Mrs Rundle was still there . |
| 10 | He has changed his position and perhaps there is still time for him to cross the Floor before he leaves the House at the end of this Parliament . |
| 11 | As Devon Loch struggled up there was still time for him to get going again and hold off E.S.B. , but his hind legs seemed not to function and he could not move on . |
| 12 | I have faxed my protest to the board , there 's still time for them to change their mind . |
| 13 | ‘ But there 's still time for you to redeem yourself . |
| 14 | It was nearly time for her to take up position at Ludgate Circus , but first she had to get Ruby to leave . |
| 15 | And annual ; by the time they 've got themselves together it will be practically time for them to disperse . |
| 16 | So , he had one time , from his window , thrown out bread for them to eat . |
| 17 | There was n't any chance really , well there was nothing which we could call there was no encouragement for girls to achieve anything academically or really encouragement for them to do anything much with their lives after they left school , aside from in the home , except for perhaps being domestic servants , something like that , which is after all the category of employment which absorbed most women until quite late on . |
| 18 | He lays out food for us to admire . |
| 19 | It was now time for him to call in his battlegroup to tell his men of their achievements . |
| 20 | Well I 'm afraid it 's now time for me to send one of those boring sending off messages that everyone usually skips straight past . |
| 21 | There was n't room for her to stay in the flat with the three other girls so they decided that Katrine should stay in Piazza Pitti in Debbie 's flat . |
| 22 | The remaining void shields were doing their best to bleed hostile energies away as heat , but there was n't time for it to radiate away . |
| 23 | It was surely time for me to take life more seriously . |