Example sentences of "[prep] he [verb] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he let go of her to shut the door her impatience for him to return was almost more than her body could stand . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | So all that remained for him to do was to demonstrate that Lucy 's organ of Amativeness was extraordinarily well developed . |
| 4 | For him teaching was a ‘ calling ’ — a career which , though academic , had at its core the concept of service to others . |
| 5 | Earlier on in the same piece of writing , in the same letter to the Philippians he had said that for him to die was gain . |
| 6 | What was beyond him to understand was why any man in his right mind would want to buy . |