Example sentences of "for him to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such poems ‘ need not be stimulated by real-life events ’ such as the plight of the Marseilles dock-workers , which has effaced the sight — darkly limned in Jaromil 's juvenilia — of Magda in her bath ; and if the poet who displays his ignorant , indifferent self-portrait is hoping for applause , there is a chance for him to do well in the new world of revolution , which rings with applause , and with blame . |
| 2 | She kept waiting for him to do something , but he hesitated , as if he were waiting for her . |
| 3 | It will not be easy for him to do so . |
| 4 | He longed to do some real work that would give him some satisfaction at the end of a day , yet there seemed to be nothing for him to do . |
| 5 | But she was busy watching his feet , waiting for him to do a runner . |
| 6 | I told him I thought it was a stupid thing for him to do . |
| 7 | ‘ I guess this one 's easier for him to do than the others . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't really want to imagine what they were like but I know it 's not an intense thing for him to do like Platoon was . |
| 9 | Perhaps Mr Paxman would at last achieve what we have always been waiting for him to do in one of his interviews : either fall fast asleep or choke to death on one of his own jokes . |
| 10 | Both of you may also be keen for him to do ‘ exercises , to improve his physical condition . |
| 11 | He decided that the best thing for him to do was to leave as soon as possible , before other people arrived and the situation became very complicated . |
| 12 | ‘ Bad for him to do it only one way , ’ she said . |
| 13 | It was against the law for him to do so and for the store to serve him . |
| 14 | Finally , one of the students whom I had worked with a couple of summers previously came back to me just before I left post to discuss his third year project at Shrivenham and I was able to arrange for him to do a project involving the linking of a commercial graphical package to the expert system developed as part of the war time operation aid mentioned previously . |
| 15 | He has to do what it is morally possible for him to do in the circumstances . |
| 16 | What it means is that as life ‘ is not a single straight line ’ he does what he thinks must be done and what it is morally possible for him to do in situations of moral dilemma . |
| 17 | Yet some form of coercion or compulsion still resulted from what he considered it right for him to do in certain circumstances . |
| 18 | For the scene when Benjamin is trying to get a room key , Nichols suggested that Dustin find in his life what was the most painful thing for him to do that had a sexual connotation , in a public way . |
| 19 | He added : ‘ No-one works harder than Faldo and I admire him because it must be very difficult for him to do that . |
| 20 | Underneath all that razzmatazz , the girls sneaked aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach or into his room in Guaruja , there was a man of some sensitivity who felt that both fame and sexual prowess had somehow been thrust upon him ; I think he found both hard to resist , and it must be acknowledged that a chauvinistic British press , his looks , his celebrity and his companions made it hard for him to do anything else than accept the role thrust upon him . |
| 21 | There seemed nothing left for him to do but go back to London , provide Fiona with some trumped-up evidence of adultery by spending the night with a prostitute — something he had never done before — and try to find a job . |
| 22 | There appeared to be nothing for him to do but make his way back to the Inn on the Point , collect his own belongings and return to London . |
| 23 | On the day after President Shagari 's arrival in Britain , one UpN state newspaper reported nothing of the visit , commenting instead in an editorial that he should not have left the country at a time when the doctors were on strike : it had been ‘ unpatriotic ’ for him to do so . |
| 24 | He 's very proud ; it 's too difficult for him to do anything about it now . |
| 25 | But it came too late for him to do anything about it , for when he straightened up and turned towards the bank the bullet hit him in the chest and his body seemed to disintegrate and fly in all directions , and he knew that death was on him and that it was something that divided you into a million parts and each fragment screamed as it flung itself into eternity . |
| 26 | There was nothing for him to do now until Kynaston had finished . |
| 27 | There was nothing for him to do except settle down to some work . |
| 28 | There 's nothing for him to do , is there ? |
| 29 | So all that remained for him to do was to demonstrate that Lucy 's organ of Amativeness was extraordinarily well developed . |
| 30 | Time was now important to him : it had been a lazy year and , as he had told Levy , there was still work for him to do . |