Example sentences of "was time for [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , when the show was over and it was time for everyone to wake up and go home , they opened up the roof — the whole thing rolls back to one side . |
| 2 | When it was time for them to go , she rolled up the carpet full of soil and put it in her bedroom . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When Iris announced that it was time for them to return , Jack insisted on walking them back . |
| 5 | It was time for them to put their houses in order , ‘ and for the Home Secretary to insist they do ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was time for him to leave as well . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been very pleased to meet you , ’ Mother said to the old gentleman , when it was time for him to leave . |
| 9 | Soon it was time for him to return and it was arranged that Anne and Sarah who were both free would see him off at the station . |
| 10 | It was time for him to take action . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was time for him to intervene . |
| 15 | ‘ Of course , ’ Fabia replied , and from then until it was time for her to drive Cara to the airport she listened intently to all her sister had to impart . |
| 16 | As she moved off with the other mounted followers , Artemis determined that if her father thought it was time for her to stop riding ponies and learn to hunt on a horse , then so be it . |
| 17 | When it was time for her to leave , he walked out into the sun to open the driveway gates . |
| 18 | And he was always up before it was time for her to call him . |
| 19 | Yanto arranged to pick them up outside Sharpness Coop Sunday morning , after which Mary said it was time for her to go home . |
| 20 | Her friends were settled , politics infinitely depressing , she came to the decision to make some break ; it was time for her to go . |
| 21 | When they 'd covered more or less everything and it was time for her to go , Angelica walked with her to the main door . |
| 22 | The beeper alarm on Diane 's watch sounded as they were driving back , the signal that it was time for her to go and collect the litterbug Jed from his minder . |
| 23 | Leonora knew perfectly well it was time for her to grovel , but found it difficult to make a start . |
| 24 | At the end of the season Chapman called me in and said it was time for me to decide one way or the other . |
| 25 | It was time for me to go . |
| 26 | The half-hour eventually crawled round , then it was time for me to go and get ready . |
| 27 | eyes on before and when it was time for me to go to bed I would be encouraged not made |
| 28 | After six years it was time for me to move on to Debenham High School . |
| 29 | I knew when I woke that it was time for me to return . |
| 30 | We had several until I decided that it was time for me to sit on her lap . |