Example sentences of "[adj] time for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had n't chucked away the rulebook shortly after Johannes Gutenburg invented printing , this would be the proper time for me to rise and shine . |
| 2 | This is a very exciting time for me . |
| 3 | And having heard , he said sombrely : ‘ It is high time for her . |
| 4 | This is a very painful time for me and , I 'm sure , for Tatum as well . ’ |
| 5 | This has been a painful time for you . ’ |
| 6 | wrong time for her . |
| 7 | I scribbled a note telling him what our doctor had said and begging him , if he saw fit , for the drug that promised the chance of an easier time for us both . |
| 8 | When they were not , they switched to cockles ( although it took some time for them to learn the technique of shell penetration ) . |
| 9 | He hoped she would spare some time for him and he promised he would not ask her to act in anything . |
| 10 | ‘ The yacht is a rather slow model of course , so it may take some time for you to die . ’ |
| 11 | Although bream feed pretty well any time of the year , the autumn is my favourite time for them . |
| 12 | Consequently , it can be planned so that it is raised at the most appropriate time for it to be dealt with effectively . |
| 13 | Speaking in a dry tone , he said , ‘ To be honest , Doreen , I doubt that this is an appropriate time for you to visit my stepmother — so Lucy and I shall go alone . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It 's a sad time for me , but this is something for which I 've been trying to prepare myself for some time , ’ he said . |
| 15 | This was a sad time for me . |
| 16 | And though that would be a sad time for her , in Glasgow , alone , it would cheer her up to think what fun they were having ! |
| 17 | This is a perfect time for us to be putting our foot on the accelerator and move ahead , ’ says Colin Mitchell . |
| 18 | She never had much time for me before . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't think she had much time for him . |
| 21 | ‘ I never had much time for him when he was young , but I never guessed he 'd do anything as rotten as this ! ’ |
| 22 | And they do n't have much time for him . |
| 23 | I had n't got much time for him and he knew it ! |
| 24 | Mind you , with all the services we had to go to , there was n't much time for it either . |
| 25 | So I thought well I 'll carry one of these for when I 'm going out in my car to which , you know , and if somebody does come up to me I can use it in a positive manner while in a split second time for me , hopefully beca , cos of my range of work |
| 26 | ‘ It 's the ideal time for you . |
| 27 | Christmas is a natural time for us to indulge ourselves , free from the constraints of commissioning clients , and as calligraphy lends itself admirably to the creation of ephemera such as greetings cards , most of us have a large collection of those many of our distinguished colleagues . |
| 28 | And it was in this room , quietly and simply , that Morse told her of the death of Theodore Kemp , considering , in his own strange fashion , that it was perhaps not an inappropriate time for her to know . |
| 29 | And once broken , once the grief and tears had begun , it would take some little time for her to recover , although now that she had faced what had happened she might do so more quickly and easily than she would have done had she continued suppressing her memories , and refusing healthy grieving . |
| 30 | ‘ We have lost four games recently that we never deserved to lose so it 's been a hard time for us . |