Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] it be for i " in BNC.

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1 ‘ People still write about how strange it was for me to be with someone like Catherine , ’ he says .
2 She said this with a certain violence , and Clara 's attention quickened , for she thought she was about to witness the emergence of one of the buried conflicts of which she had heard so much : but Mrs Denham said quickly , " For goodness sake , Clelia , you know how good it is for me to have James around , it takes me back to those lovely days when you were all so small and docile . "
3 I 've got a sale to go to at nine , and you know how difficult it is for me to get back to sleep once I 've been woken . ’
4 He appreciated how difficult it was for me ‘ to give way ’ , what a wrench it was for someone who always operated on his own to cooperate with an act he neither understood nor , at that time , actively sought .
5 The fact that I should think this , and thought this at the time when I was one of the leaders of the movement campaigning for the ordination of women , brings it home to me how difficult it was for me to work within that movement .
6 Can you imagine how bitter it is for me to have to write that sentence ?
7 Back in those Hard Times , funerals offered us the comfort of knowing that , however tough it was for me and thee , there was always somebody who had it worse .
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