Example sentences of "was for him " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a knock on the door in the early hours of the morning , she had curlers in her hair , and my father , thinking it was for him , told her not to panic . |
| 2 | This task was for him somewhat infra dig , but until Burden and Sergeant Martin brought him some information he had little else to do , and this way he could , at any rate , be certain it was well done . |
| 3 | He said it was for him the perfect realization of Sibelius as a passionate but anti-sensual composer . |
| 4 | As the Empress Eugénie remarked : ‘ It was for him a cannon ball that he dragged at his feet all his life . ’ |
| 5 | Every time there was a call , although 99 times out of a 100 the call was for him , he pushed the phone in my direction . |
| 6 | It had taken a week to obtain , and had Hapsburg officialdom realized that it was for him rather than Aranyos it would have been unlikely to arrive before the end of the war . |
| 7 | This was for him the beginning of an independent ‘ second career ’ after leaving the army . |
| 8 | Rembrandt was for him ‘ the magician of magicians ’ . |
| 9 | Thoughts of Edward dominated her young life : it was for him that she yearned , breathed , existed . |
| 10 | Everything was wonderful , he said , and she knew it was for him . |
| 11 | The phone call was for him . |
| 12 | So on 13 and 14 March the best that could be done was for him to give Harwell full details and let them get on with it themselves ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 13 | Like Herbert , however , he suffered from ‘ aguish distempers ’ ; his doctor advised that the only chance of saving his life was for him to travel overseas in order to escape from the Cambridge climate and as a respite from his studies . |
| 14 | Most meal-times took an hour or more but she had realized how important it was for him to eat . |
| 15 | All I did n't want to happen was for him to become violent , which I did n't think was ever on the cards . |
| 16 | Ultimately , his change of pace and flight of the ball broke up the rhythm of Lee , who perhaps rather over pressed in the first set and found himself 0–5 down before he adjusted his momentum to claw four games back before Galasso 's touch and confidence returned , in what was for him a perfect final game and a match point won with a brilliant lob . |
| 17 | That was his happiness , to talk to a captured ear was for him the thrill of seeing the Commandant 's office roofless and destroyed . |
| 18 | Similarly , directors have noted how rare it was for him to bring his natural rage into play on screen . |
| 19 | Their stated wish was for him to be moved to another mainstream school . |
| 20 | She knew how important it was for him to be in a good army , and if the war had ended in Rhodesia , then perhaps another might start in one of France 's old colonies so that the Legion could get involved . |
| 21 | In fact , Galileo 's Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina ( 1615 ) shows how difficult it was for him to pursue such an argument , even had he wished . |
| 22 | Baldwin answered with commendable frankness : what lie wanted , what he thought the King himself wanted , was for him to go , if he had to , as quietly as possible , and thereby to make things easier for his successor . |
| 23 | If La Rochelle was against Richard then Saintes was for him . |
| 24 | Even his understanding of musical pattern and musical form , which in practice was for him a deeply instinctive activity , was discussed in terms of the musical pattern which is " latent in common speech " . |
| 25 | His idea of the " popular play " is important , since his devotion to the music hall and his belief that the poet can only be socially useful in the theatre spurred him on to achieve what was for him the unachievable : the plays bear all the marks of their deliberate and laborious composition . |
| 26 | His woman 's labour was for him . |
| 27 | It was for him a dreadful test of endurance . |
| 28 | She told herself later that she could n't have been expected to remember what a knife-edge he lived on , how hard it was for him to trust anyone . |
| 29 | Not only would I have refrained from interfering with Thorpe J. 's decision on the footing that he had properly directed himself and that it was for him to decide , but because , even on the facts as they then were , I consider that his decision was plainly right . |
| 30 | She did not feel angry with him : she could imagine how it was for him : woman after woman after woman , all the same , all different , weeping on occasion for fear , boredom , pain , frustration , humiliation . |