Example sentences of "it must be [adj] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It must be terrible for her , ’ Joe went on , ‘ her son gone missing and all this stuff about him on the radio and television . ’ |
| 2 | If a person develops these attributes over time , it must be possible for them to develop with practice in later life or through training . |
| 3 | John loved beautiful things , she felt sure ; it must be painful for him to live in such surroundings , perhaps humiliating too for him to have her realise that this was all he could afford to live in . |
| 4 | ‘ And it must be painful for you , even now , when all the papers and magazines are full of stories about test-tube babies and IVF and surrogate mothers and such . ’ |
| 5 | He 's learning to row a coracle but he keeps going round in circles , it must be tiresome for him when he 's used to going in straight lines . |
| 6 | But it must be tiresome for him to have you constantly tagging at his heels all the time . ’ |
| 7 | It must be difficult for them to understand when the way that we use ‘ big ’ is so confusing . |
| 8 | ‘ It must be difficult for you — not being completely in charge , ’ she ventured . |
| 9 | ‘ It must be difficult for you , ’ he said , ‘ surrounded by all these wogs . |
| 10 | and you sort of say , do you think it would be useful if we talked about reception because that 's something y you 're not doing quite as frequently but it 's obviously , it must be difficult for you to fit in to that because you 're not doing it all the time . |
| 11 | ‘ It must be frightening for them to see Ryan on the bench . |
| 12 | His reasoning seems to be that where there is smoke , there must be the old woman ( who carries their fire ) : therefore it must be safe for him to follow ( pp. 26 – 7 ) . |
| 13 | It must be dreadful for her , but a hundred times worse for Josh . |
| 14 | ‘ It must be lonely for you with everyone out so much , ’ he said , looking at her searchingly . |
| 15 | " It must be hard for him . " |
| 16 | It must be horrible for them when cars crash outside their homes . |
| 17 | It must be important for her to have driven all the way up north and bluff her way into his house . |