Example sentences of "[pron] was [noun] for them " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I should say yes they would , I should say there was trouble for them obviously when it was reported . |
| 2 | Work , sport and social activities ran easily side by side , There was time for them all — after I 'd absorbed father 's time-mentality . |
| 3 | There is a flat at the top of our house where our younger son and his wife had lived until Mark was a year old , so there was accommodation for them : they need n't be homeless even if they were penniless ! |
| 4 | Every house had one or two people who were over forty-five and it was misery for them . |
| 5 | When it was time for them to go , she rolled up the carpet full of soil and put it in her bedroom . |
| 6 | It was time for them to put their houses in order , ‘ and for the Home Secretary to insist they do ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When Iris announced that it was time for them to return , Jack insisted on walking them back . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Exactly , but also it was food for them . |