Example sentences of "it be [noun sg] for [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 61 | ‘ I 've been very pleased to meet you , ’ Mother said to the old gentleman , when it was time for him to leave . |
| 62 | I thought that I had n't chosen to get married at all but that Syl had chosen to marry me , since it was time for him to marry and I offered no threat to the way and integrity of his life and character , and that my mother had chosen to see me wed because I was good for little else . |
| 63 | From long experience he knew the hangover would pass before it was time for him to stalk on stage and rebuke Hamlet for grieving overmuch for his father . |
| 64 | It was time for him to intervene . |
| 65 | There he was provisioned with every known variety of soft drink , and kept virtually incommunicado until it was time for him to travel to Broadcasting House . |
| 66 | By Sunday evening , when it was time for them to leave and the three of them were piling into the Bentley , what she felt inside her , by any definition , was far more than simply sexual excitement . |
| 67 | When it was time for them to go , she rolled up the carpet full of soil and put it in her bedroom . |
| 68 | When Loc , with another worried glance in Jacques Devraux 's direction , insisted it was time for them to go to bed , Paul galloped across the clearing with little Hoc on his shoulders and dumped the boy squealing with laughter on his sleeping mat . |
| 69 | When Iris announced that it was time for them to return , Jack insisted on walking them back . |
| 70 | It was time for them to put their houses in order , ‘ and for the Home Secretary to insist they do ’ . |
| 71 | It was time for us to get on with the climbing . |