Example sentences of "time for him " in BNC.

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1 Mr Eames was just getting up , convinced that juniors and upstarts were usurping the stage and it was time for him to be where the action was , when he was interrupted by the bell .
2 Not that I 've any time for him any longer — going on like that when his poor wife was near her time . ’
3 His mother had had no time for him , and his father disapproved of him .
4 It was now time for him to call in his battlegroup to tell his men of their achievements .
5 He was n't asleep ; it was just a very difficult time for him .
6 There was no time for him to get up the steps and past the door before it opened and deadly talons reached for him in the darkness .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 This cleared up in time for him to jump in Zurich , however , and then he returned to Whitaker 's Yorkshire stable for his final preparation before the long flight from Frankfurt to California today .
10 If Mr Major really wishes to ditch the more arrogant whims of his predecessor , now is the time for him to put his money where his mouth is .
11 It was a very distressing time for him .
12 And are you sure that you can get your bit done in time for him to continue ?
13 Modigliani worked on the painting , an unusually long time for him and perhaps the only time when he agreed to ‘ continue ’ a painting .
14 Thus , a few years later , when Polanski was accused of drugging and raping a thirteen-year-old girl in Jack Nicholson 's home , it was — some said — time for him to go , and he has been exiled in Paris ever since .
15 She 's not got a lot of time for him now , I can pretty well reveal that .
16 It was time for him to leave as well .
17 He must be able to stamp his authority not only on his team but on the peloton as a whole , directing the whole tenor of the race before it is time for him to go to the front and win .
18 I 've got no time for him , he 's fouling up my thinking space .
19 It took a little time for him to realise that ‘ Bovril ’ was not a local retailer .
20 Abandoning the isolation he had sought so avidly in September , he went back so as to be at home for Christmas , always a precarious time for him .
21 There had never been any doubt between them that the University of Glasgow would accept Paul , and this happened in time for him to make his arrangements ; but meanwhile there was something else .
22 It was time for him to intervene .
23 The book was completed just in time for him to dedicate it to King Charles II at the Restoration .
24 Castleford-born Goodway , who won 23 caps for Great Britain , was registered in time for him to play in tomorrow 's big championship opener with St Helens .
25 Elf astrologers and geomancers studied the portents to divine the best time for the new king to begin his reign , and calculated the best time for him to pass through the flame .
26 However , maybe Stalinvast still survived , and the Tormentum Malorum might yet leave the warp in time for him to compel the old woman to send a signal to save the situation .
27 It had been a very unhappy time for him , especially since he knew that his advancing years prevented him from getting a job as a carman .
28 When it came time for him to be knighted by Henry I in Rouen , he set off for Normandy with a crowd of these young men about him .
29 And was it a real drama at that time for him ?
30 He took them all off and that made Constanza laugh at once , but she did n't have much time for him , she was in love with someone else and he had enlisted .
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