Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] be [prep] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | My dad would say , Stay well away from them , he was always afraid they were after him for all the taxes he had n't paid . |
| 2 | She told herself later that she could n't have been expected to remember what a knife-edge he lived on , how hard it was for him to trust anyone . |
| 3 | Then he said I was too innocent to realise how hard it was for him just to see me for half an hour and a kiss and cuddle . ’ |
| 4 | By 19 November he had the whole amount , 30 francs , from Theo , and was writing to say how kind and humane it was of him to let him have the ticket money . |
| 5 | She was only sorry that she had demonstrated exactly how vulnerable she was to him . |
| 6 | I want him to know how futile it is for him to try and escape my influence … " |
| 7 | As they were not leaving the church immediately I rushed home and quickly wrote a note to ‘ la Signora Enrica ’ telling Eric all the latest news and telling him also how lonely I was without him . |
| 8 | He smiled slowly , then drawled , ‘ You ca n't imagine how jealous I was of him . |
| 9 | However , when we recognize that God is able to rule over our personal woundedness , then we begin to appreciate how profoundly indebted we are to him . |
| 10 | Most meal-times took an hour or more but she had realized how important it was for him to eat . |
| 11 | She knew how important it was for him to be in a good army , and if the war had ended in Rhodesia , then perhaps another might start in one of France 's old colonies so that the Legion could get involved . |
| 12 | He leaned forward , smiling , playing the perfect host , knowing how important it was for him to win these young men over . |
| 13 | She felt the tight leather skirt being wriggled upwards to bare her scorching behind , and when his cool fingers touched her hot flesh she realised just how hot she was for him . |
| 14 | She had always told him how proud she was of him , that he should work so hard to support his son in a far-off country and how one day she would tell Oreste it was due to his father 's efforts that he had been so well looked after . |
| 15 | Broadly speaking , the higher a person is in the management structure , the more essential it is for him or her to be given work when it is available . |
| 16 | During the summer , the Prime Minister kept saying how essential it was for him to be present at Maastricht in December in order to make decisions , but the word from Downing street now is that the Prime Minister 's greatest ambition at Maastricht is to fend off making any decisions . |
| 17 | And even now , after Dr Neil 's healing influence , daily exerted , for although he could not make direct love to her he was able to let her know in a thousand different ways how much he loved her , and how precious she was to him , she still felt the odd shudder of shame and fear . |
| 18 | That she would come here , knowing that she would see nothing , makes me realise how infatuated she is with him . ’ |
| 19 | In fact , Galileo 's Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina ( 1615 ) shows how difficult it was for him to pursue such an argument , even had he wished . |
| 20 | He avoided her glance , and she saw how difficult it was for him to admit to weakness . |
| 21 | Jane squeezed his arm , and the young man abruptly — shockingly — realized just how close she was to him . |
| 22 | If you 're nice to him — I wo n't use the language over the air ( because you 'd be shut down ) that he uses to me — however nice you are to him it does n't make a bit of difference . |
| 23 | Similarly , directors have noted how rare it was for him to bring his natural rage into play on screen . |
| 24 | And he went and told them how necessary it was for him to go to Canada , in the interests of the firm . |
| 25 | Naturally she had not wanted to go out with him , but both her mother and father stressed how nice it was of him to take such an interest in the fact that she was going off to university and wanted to take her to the pictures as a treat . |
| 26 | But he held all the keys to the boxes she wanted to unlock , and , however suspicious , however wary she was of him , she had to persuade him to help her . |
| 27 | How ready she was for him to fuck her . |
| 28 | Terry hated having to make these tapes and we knew how distressing it was for him . |