Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] [adj] for her " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't right for her to be spending all her time with this pansy Jules fellow or her elderly patron . |
| 2 | It was n't suitable for her at all . |
| 3 | Inside , she was crying out that it was n't fair for her to survive the worst technological terrors that twenty-fifth-century man could devise , only to have her short life ended by the crude but effective mechanism of an old Steyr . |
| 4 | I said it was n't proper for her to keep it , but she would n't listen . ’ |
| 5 | I had invited everyone I could think of to tea , and we had been invited back , but it was not her style , and when she complained that it was not right for her ‘ to be living among all these old people ’ I understood very well what she meant . |
| 6 | One student said it was not appropriate for her , since her field of study was theology . |
| 7 | ‘ It was not unusual for her to go out on her own and meet up with friends , ’ he said . |
| 8 | It was not sensible for her to contemplate enlarging her domains . |
| 9 | It was just that for her , he felt that he hardly existed , that his authority . |
| 10 | It was just possible for her to see a suggestion of light at the spy hole , set like a marble in the wall . |
| 11 | The verse was n't about Sarah , of course ( she was n't even from Martinique ) , but it was just right for her somehow . |
| 12 | She liked the script about a young couple in the then fashionable Swinging London , but did not feel it was quite right for her . |
| 13 | I 'd looked forward to it for ages , there 'd been a build-up but it was quite different for her . ’ |
| 14 | It was so unusual for her to move out of her own domain . |
| 15 | Loretta had stayed there before , although it was more usual for her to see Bridget when the latter made one of her frequent visits to London . |
| 16 | It was n't crucial at this stage to get her to step on to the glove repeatedly ; it was more important for her to develop the right attitude to the whole process . |
| 17 | So she left it all to herself and tried to carry on but it was too much for her . |
| 18 | It was too dark for her to see anything , but from where he was , twenty feet up , she would be perfectly silhouetted against the open door . |
| 19 | He pulled the window up quickly and it was too dark for her to see him step back towards the house . |
| 20 | But it was too late for her to break the habit of dislike , and she turned away from me . |
| 21 | But the journey from Gridford to Shadwell was too long for Tim to bring his family , and Miss Miggs always said it was too far for her to travel to them . |
| 22 | It was too big for her when the boys left home , and she could n't really afford it any more . |
| 23 | Viola said she was going to sell the house , because it was too big for her ( Hilary had just moved out ) , and she found the stairs difficult — so what was she to do with Walter 's manuscripts and stuff , which were legally Mam 's ? |
| 24 | where it , she said it was too big for her and er she wanted something smaller , with a swap , well I did n't swap for the reason mine was overlooking the lake , it was in a better position , and er , then she told me the reason she wanted to swap cos er , she said it was too big cos her husband had died , I started to speak to her about when God 's kingdom comes on the earth , these dead ones will come back , these loved ones |
| 25 | ‘ I could not understand what she said , because it was too preposterous for her to say . ’ |
| 26 | It was necessary to rest it on the lap because it was too heavy for her to hold up , which meant she had to sit leaning forward in order to read . |
| 27 | I thought it was too heavy for her , she was only small . |
| 28 | It was too large for her and the wide sleeves of limp cotton hung from her freckled arms like rags thrown over a stick . |
| 29 | I met her in a big line-up of people and it was very difficult for her . |
| 30 | Frankly , it was as well for her that she was sitting down , because she was n't at all confident her own knees could cope . |