Example sentences of "be time [prep] them [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 Soon it will be time for them to do it again .
2 But , even when people have had spells of very bad illness , they may still live for many years and there will be time for them to make good plans for their children .
3 When it was time for them to go , she rolled up the carpet full of soil and put it in her bedroom .
4 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 .
5 When Iris announced that it was time for them to return , Jack insisted on walking them back .
6 It was time for them to put their houses in order , ‘ and for the Home Secretary to insist they do ’ .
7 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 .
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