Example sentences of "there was no [noun] for him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Garry deserved all that was coming to him ; fidelity in marriage seemed to be very little regarded but Garry must have known about the baby and there was no excuse for him . |
| 2 | ‘ He dropped down just now , and the doctor said there was no hope for him because it 's his heart ! ’ |
| 3 | But as he could not stop looking at her , I knew there was no hope for him . |
| 4 | But our poetry started to flow again , though now it was he who distributed the favours : there was no call for him now to bribe me with sex , so this aspect of our relationship was something he kept under tight control , allowing sexual contact only when he felt like it and not just when I wanted it , as in the past . |
| 5 | Why , even Peggy herself had been one of his targets — until he realized there was no chance for him there . |
| 6 | But there was no chance for him to rest in seclusion , even if he wished to do so — by April his brother was dying , and because of the urgency of the situation Eliot flew to New York on 22 April . |
| 7 | Damien 's body appeared to be twisting and writhing like a fish on a line but there was no escape for him . |
| 8 | But if there was no advantage for him he would n't come . ’ |
| 9 | There was no trial-by-jury for him , of course , and no Times leader . |
| 10 | Officials refused to discuss his itinerary and , most unusually for such a senior member of the Royal Family , it was indicated that there was no plan for him to meet the public . |
| 11 | He was being held in police cells because there was no room for him at Durham prison . |
| 12 | There was no time for him to get up the steps and past the door before it opened and deadly talons reached for him in the darkness . |
| 13 | So Mr H concluded there was no place for him to live in Japan except in a mental hospital . |
| 14 | Since Vic was not a forester , there was no reason for him to follow the quaint ways of the forest . |
| 15 | There was no reason for him to feel at a disadvantage . |
| 16 | There was no reason for him to do so because the claims that he wished to make were quite simple ( they did not involve complex interactions of different speaker variables ) , and because in his analysis the same patterns were repeated for every variable studied , tending in the same direction in every case in terms of both class and style ( several classes and several styles ) . |
| 17 | There was no reason for him to see her again . |
| 18 | But since this sudden , amazing improvement in the Baron 's health there was no reason for him to remain . |
| 19 | There was no reason for him to die . |
| 20 | At all events , she had committed no crime , so there was no reason for him to pursue the matter any further . |
| 21 | He was bitter and that must mean … but no , there was no reason for him to be bitter . |
| 22 | Mr Woolmer said : ‘ I felt Donald was overused in the World Cup when there was no need for him to bowl in the games against Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe . ’ |
| 23 | She 'd agreed with the head lad that there was no need for him to get up extra early , but he 'd insisted on leaving Shine On 's feed already made up . |
| 24 | If Vecchi had been to the apartment and got what he wanted before killing Mahoney , there was no need for him to return for another look round . |
| 25 | The judge was therefore at fault in considering that there was no need for him to pay explicit regard to the public interest in freedom of expression guaranteed by article 10 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ( 1953 ) ( Cmd. 8969 ) in seeking to resolve the uncertainty or ambiguity in the common law ; ( 7 ) in failing , as did Browne J. in the Bognor Regis case , to have proper regard to the public interest in freedom of expression and to the question of whether in a democratic society there really was a pressing social need to extend the ambit of the law of defamation to enable a governmental body to sue in respect of presumed ( and not actual ) injury to its governmental reputation ; ( 8 ) in failing to take into account the acceptance by the English courts of the fact that where a governmental plaintiff sought to invoke a private law right to interfere with freedom of discussion about the workings of government , the court 's approach would ( because of the competing public interests involved ) differ from that in a private dispute between citizen and citizen . |
| 26 | After all , there was no need for him to do so , was there ? |
| 27 | This time there was no need for him to force her up the dark steps of the barn ; she walked in front of him determinedly . |
| 28 | His parole was given and taken , and there was no need for him to lack exercise . |
| 29 | There was no need for him to get married yet . |
| 30 | There was no need for him to use the overdraft . |