Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [adj] for him [to-vb] " in BNC.

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31 As a result , King Herla rides the countryside with his ghostly retinue still , hoping the dog will indicate where it is safe for him to stop .
32 But it does not follow that there may not be a difference in the procedures which are appropriate on the one hand in requiring the driver to provide a specimen of blood or urine under section 7(4) where it is obligatory for him to do so because one of the circumstances specified in section 7(3) has arisen , and on the other hand in informing the driver of his right under section 8(2) to claim that the specimen of breath which he has given containing the lower proportion of alcohol should be replaced by a specimen of blood or urine under section 7(4) .
33 Since the purchaser is to assume the liabilities for all persons employed in the business ( including any claim by the employees against the vendor ) it is important for him to collect , as early as possible , full details of all employees .
34 It is important for him to define a refugee .
35 But , you know , there may be many other reasons why it is important for him to get to the top so quickly .
36 ‘ Unfortunately , it is difficult for him to paint in the house in Leeds because we do n't have the space and we do n't have the light .
37 However , once in the system it is difficult for him to move to higher-paid employment in another industry , for he would also have to find housing elsewhere for himself and his family .
38 This means for the neighbourhood man , the man on the beat , that it is difficult for him to keep a low profile .
39 He argues that bad garages drive out good ones because the typical customer can not judge whether a service has been done properly , and it is difficult for him to check .
40 I suppose you could say David had it so often that it be nice for him to get it .
41 He was n't a very good poet , I do n't think , but it was nice for him to see his poems printed for once .
42 Schiller had pleaded , once again going through the many reasons why it was right for him to gain a seat on the council .
43 It was illegal for him to enter into such an agreement .
44 It was illegal for him to enter into such an agreement .
45 ‘ The cases in which the principle has been applied are cases in which the nature , scope and purpose of the function vested in the repository made it unlikely that Parliament intended that it was to be exercised by the repository personally because administrative necessity indicated that it was impractical for him to act otherwise than through his officers or officers responsible to him .
46 Chris Law , who had calculated it was possible for him to stay in the series , led the fleet after a blinding first beat sailed in a wind of 20 knots .
47 Thus it was possible for him to find his own men in the army which he was attacking .
48 It was essential for him to keep the support of Congress in dealing with the Depression , and Congress in the 1930s was determined to keep out of the overseas conflicts .
49 He was not actually hungry , and it was rare for him to drink , but they were paying and he would make sure they noticed , and — apart from the singer — the Khan Murjan was a hell of a fabulous place .
50 It was rare for him to feel gratitude to any person , but the nearest was his feeling for the Colonel .
51 It was impossible for him to mount the motorbike before Wilkie .
52 It was impossible for him to have escaped on his own for the door was secured by a wedge , pushed through a hasp to hold the hinged staple in place .
53 It was impossible for him to comprehend .
54 Law supported the offer to Asquith , and it was logical for him to do so ; a government bent on post-war reconstruct on and resistance to Labour would be strengthened by Asquith 's presence .
55 It was necessary for him to transcend the terms of the old conceptual system by developing a new one .
56 First of all , for instance , the preparation which Milton felt it was necessary for him to give himself , was neither technical nor introspective .
57 Under this enforced regimen of quiet and rest , he came to understand that it was necessary for him to retire a little from the active life in which he had previously been engaged ; he told William Turner Levy that he would have to learn to concentrate his time and energy upon his real work .
58 For a man who found it difficult to write for more than three hours a day it was one way of passing time but , more importantly , as he explained in an address in 1951 , it was necessary for him to hold a job which other people considered useful ; he had so little confidence in his own work that he did not want to risk wasting all of his time upon it .
59 But it is also important to remember that the object of the 1790 visit was really Switzerland , traditionally the land of liberty ; Wordsworth never retracted his belief in the ideals of Switzerland , which helps to explain why , when France threatened Swiss independence in the late 1790s , it was necessary for him to make a decisive choice .
60 It was usual for him to wheedle a few from any European who stopped . )
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