Example sentences of "had [adv] be for him " in BNC.
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| 1 | His deterioration through Alzheimer 's Disease with its abundant frustrations had long been for him a physical and mental martyrdom . |
| 2 | Nor would she have been , if it had not been for him . |
| 3 | ‘ I would never have been a dancer or believed I could do anything if it had not been for him , ’ said Crawford . |
| 4 | If it had not been for him we would all be dead and there would n't be anybody telling this . |
| 5 | If it had n't been for him , I would have had a bad time because I hated school . ’ |
| 6 | After all , if it had n't been for Him , she would n't have a lovely daughter . |
| 7 | His heroics prompted disappointed Hammers striker Clive Allen to admit : ‘ If it had n't been for him , we would have won . ’ |
| 8 | If it had n't been for him I 'd not have reached the standards that I 've achieved , ’ said Zara . |
| 9 | They would n't exist if it had n't been for him . |
| 10 | and if it had n't been for him I would n't have them , |
| 11 | But before we jump to the conclusion that Pound had simply had a brainstorm , or had been trapped by misplaced compassion for Dunning as a lame duck , we ought to consider another possibility — that imagism , and Pound 's endorsement of Ford 's insistence on ‘ the prose tradition ’ , had never been for him more than an aberration , though in the short term a very profitable one , from a way of feeling that impelled him always toward the cantabile , a proclivity that would , in the interests of melody , tolerate notably eccentric diction . |