Example sentences of "[adj] for him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously Wordsworth 's performance in his studies at school must have been outstanding for him to have started off at Cambridge with such a lead , and it is hardly surprising that in the college examination in 1787 he was placed in the first class . |
| 2 | They were unanimous that she would not be right for him . |
| 3 | He insisted that he did not believe that any of them was right for him , in spite of the huge money that would be on offer . |
| 4 | He may even live the kind of life he does not really like simply because he feels that because everyone else is so much wiser than he is they must know best about what is right for him . |
| 5 | He turned on his considerable persuasive powers to convince the player not merely that the full-back position was right for him but that he would be the best full-back in the country . |
| 6 | ‘ You 're just right for him , ’ he continued . |
| 7 | It was a firm belief of the poet that his way of life was right for him , and that his poems should arise naturally from it ; as he himself said : ‘ I speak of what I know . ’ |
| 8 | What can be said for them is that if the High Priest is acting in the fullest awareness at present attainable by his people , it is right for him to perform the sacrifice , just as it would be right for a Western onlooker to try to dissuade him ; he is not like a Nazi who has voluntarily shut himself off from the knowledge of biology and history and the personal sensitivity attained by the culture of the Weimar Republic . |
| 9 | ‘ Instead he was born into a role that was n't right for him . |
| 10 | ‘ We tried to sign Chris Waddle , but it was not right for him at the time . |
| 11 | ‘ We tried to sign Chris Waddle , but it was not right for him at the time , we went for Peter Beardsley , but it was not right for Everton . |
| 12 | ‘ It was warm and personal and it felt right for him , ’ says Marie . |
| 13 | The family liked her — Cis and Hilda , Ifor and David , Pontrhydyfen and Port Talbot : she was Welsh and so pleasant and easy , lovely personality , beautiful voice , could make you laugh , just what Rich needed , just right for him . |
| 14 | I knew it was right for him — this is where he learnt to join in and be like other children . |
| 15 | The casket had been specially made to the measurements of Osiris and when it was his turn to get inside it was exactly right for him . |
| 16 | About twice a day , she 'd ask herself whether this move had been right for him . |
| 17 | Schiller had pleaded , once again going through the many reasons why it was right for him to gain a seat on the council . |
| 18 | Bob had never described it to her ; it just seemed right for him . |
| 19 | ‘ She told me it would n't be right for him to work , her mother said . |
| 20 | All blooming right for him when he was six feet in the air . |
| 21 | In this year , the 25th anniversary of Shelter , does the Minister agree that the time is right for him to give effect to the Prime Minister 's boast in his letter of support to Shelter that the Government would employ public expenditure where necessary ? |
| 22 | No , it would n't be right for him , he 's an older man , you know , and it , would , you know , he 's , it would , he would take it up more |
| 23 | That car 's right for him . |
| 24 | But whether he will I hope he chooses right for him . |
| 25 | I felt that she may have either directly or indirectly encouraged him to make this decision for several reasons : she was suffering ; she knew that he was n't going to leave the hospital and she accepted that ; and she did n't like seeing him talk himself into more suffering for him and for her ; and I do n't think there 's any question that in some sense she must have gotten this across to him that he ought to give up much more than anyone else . |
| 26 | he 's only been f here for half of the Debate , under those circumstances since he ca n't have heard all the arguments , it 's a bit rich for him to call us casual . |
| 27 | He 'll you had he 'll you have the working for him |
| 28 | Hundred and fifty for him for a fortnight at the height of the season and two hundred and fifty each for us at the height of the season . |
| 29 | When friendships finally became possible for him they were with children of the lower orders . |
| 30 | ‘ It would have been possible for him , I think . |