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Example sentences for "time for"

  • Paul Cotter sprang joyfully to his feet, Silent Tom Ross merely looked up, but Shif'less Sol said: "Thought Henry would be here in time for breakfast.

  • Feathers were scattered about, indicating that the Indians had taken time for a little side hunt, and had shot some birds.

  • You'll dine with us, Lestrade, and then you are welcome to the sofa until it is time for us to start.

  • Then it would be time for me to announce that I was still in the land of the living.

  • Well, you and your pals have just come in time for me to be able to introduce you to Mrs. Woodley.

  • He belonged to a class which had no time for sobs.

  • I got Mrs. Bowse to write to me, and she told me you were so hurried and excited you hadn't time for anything.

  • They were all going somewhere in a hurry and had to get back in time for something.

  • There is no time for a trial, my son," said Chilo.

  • Thou didst punish me sharply on a time for curiosity," replied the Greek.

  • Exhaust simple, honorable methods, and give thyself and me time for meditation.

  • I mean to leave this country in a few months' time for America, and set about planting tobacco.

  • His habit of life was very regular; he usually went out after breakfast, returning in time for dinner, and disappeared for the rest of the evening, letting himself in about midnight with a latch key, a privilege that Mme.

  • It was five o'clock, and Eugene was hungry; he was afraid lest he should not be in time for dinner, a misgiving which made him feel that it was pleasant to be borne so quickly across Paris.

  • There would be time for me to get to the village inn, and to come back again before dinner.

  • Then what are you wasting your time for here?

  • IV Leaving by an early train, I got to Limmeridge in time for dinner.

  • There was no time for questions--there was only time for Miss Halcombe to impress on the unhappy lady the necessity of controlling herself, and to assure her of immediate help and rescue if she did so.

  • He might have had many more books from Bartle Massey, but he had no time for reading "the commin print," as Lisbeth called it, so busy as he was with figures in all the leisure moments which he did not fill up with extra carpentry.

  • It was not five o'clock; there was plenty of time for Adam to take a meal and yet to get to Oakbourne before ten o'clock.

  • Happen ye can tell me, Seth, if so be as I shouldna come up i' time for't.

  • Alice), there was no way of guessing, but she was gone, and Alice began to remember that she was a Pawn, and that it would soon be time for her to move.

  • General Custis and I went down to meet them, and we all reached home in time for breakfast.

  • When the roads are unfavourable, it gets in generally in time for an early breakfast.

  • I have no time for letters of affection, so must tell you good-bye.

  • It was as though he were certain of having plenty of time for everything.

  • There's time for me to dismiss you before the three years are out.

  • Which was so long a time for him to remain taciturn, that the fact may be considered wholly unprecedented.

  • Pretty situation,' thought Mr. Pickwick, when he had had a moment's time for reflection.

  • It is time for you to say your prayers, and breakfast will soon be cooking.

  • I have no time for more, though there is much to say.

  • But his sword flashed also, one blow--there was no time for more--yet the man beneath it sank like an empty sack.

  • It's no time for whistling, Mr. Betteredge, as you say.

  • It was impossible the next morning to get my Aunt Ablewhite out of her dressing-gown in time for church.

  • There's a time for everything," I said savagely enough.

  • There was no time for me to reason out my own situation--to remind myself that I was losing my opportunity, at what might be the turning point of my life, and all to flatter nothing more important than my own self-esteem!

  • With some interruption from patients, and some interruption from pain, I finished my letter to Miss Verinder in time for to-day's post.

  • We shall just be home in time for lunch if we go now," said Lily.

  • In the Bible it is said of some season that it is not a time for marrying, or for giving in marriage.

  • She thoroughly comprehended that the present could be to her no time for listening to speeches of love, or for giving kind answers; but still I think that she did look for relief on this side of the grave.

  • I happen to know that; so we have plenty of time for working.

  • Directly he got his feet under him again he ran off to a large pool and swam across the river.

  • Thorbjorn was not going to endure that, and got him down and handled him roughly.

  • You can do that," answered Grettir, "if you have no one else to do it for you.

  • He had no time for breakfast, and he was glad of it, for he could not have eaten a morsel to save his life.

  • To-morrow, in time for dinner, or rather supper: these barbarians eat supper, you know.

  • There is plenty of time for her to take to vanity.

  • Time for you to be going, Mr. Bingham," said Mr. Granger.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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