Example sentences of "[be] no [noun sg] for him [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 'd been no call for him to attend . |
| 2 | Something unforeseen and urgent had happened , since Sean had obviously known of it yesterday afternoon , and there had been no opportunity for him to inform her . |
| 3 | In which case there would be no capital for him to start up again other than Tommy 's back pay and a few pounds he 'd managed to save himself . |
| 4 | He was awakened by a seaman who told him that the ship would not be leaving for seven days , and there would be no place for him to hide as timber was being loaded under German supervision . |
| 5 | But if Alexei said that he was not involved , then probably he was telling the truth , otherwise there would be no reason for him to say anything at all . |
| 6 | It is no offence for him to engage in other sexual acts with her , unless these are otherwise unlawful , although it is an offence for him to commit an act of buggery or gross indecency with a male patient who is mentally disordered . |
| 7 | ‘ When he played in the second row there is no space for him to run into . |
| 8 | Perhaps he walks on the right side , with just the metal grid fence separating him from the rolling fields of graves — in no hurry , since there is no class for him to make . |
| 9 | If he can not balance and control his movements , it is no use for him to try to practise ‘ walking ’ with the help of therapists or nurses . |
| 10 | Where the dealer acted as counterparty to the contract he may be willing to unwind the contract with a customer but there is no incentive for him to do so at a competitive price . |
| 11 | " There 's no need for him to unpack much , he 's got to go to the airport tomorrow . |
| 12 | Officials refused to discuss his itinerary and , most unusually for such a senior member of the Royal Family , it was indicated that there was no plan for him to meet the public . |
| 13 | But there was no chance for him to rest in seclusion , even if he wished to do so — by April his brother was dying , and because of the urgency of the situation Eliot flew to New York on 22 April . |
| 14 | Her remark had been in bad taste , she acknowledged , but that was no reason for him to lay into her with yet another string of personal insults , all dished out in that patronising way that got her blood heated to boiling-point . |
| 15 | There was no reason for him to see her again . |
| 16 | There was no reason for him to do so because the claims that he wished to make were quite simple ( they did not involve complex interactions of different speaker variables ) , and because in his analysis the same patterns were repeated for every variable studied , tending in the same direction in every case in terms of both class and style ( several classes and several styles ) . |
| 17 | There was no reason for him to die . |
| 18 | But since this sudden , amazing improvement in the Baron 's health there was no reason for him to remain . |
| 19 | At all events , she had committed no crime , so there was no reason for him to pursue the matter any further . |
| 20 | There was no reason for him to feel at a disadvantage . |
| 21 | It was obvious that he did n't care a fig what she looked like , but that was no reason for him to tighten the purse-strings . |
| 22 | Since Vic was not a forester , there was no reason for him to follow the quaint ways of the forest . |
| 23 | Mr Woolmer said : ‘ I felt Donald was overused in the World Cup when there was no need for him to bowl in the games against Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe . ’ |
| 24 | There was no need for him to use the overdraft . |
| 25 | If Vecchi had been to the apartment and got what he wanted before killing Mahoney , there was no need for him to return for another look round . |
| 26 | His parole was given and taken , and there was no need for him to lack exercise . |
| 27 | After all , there was no need for him to do so , was there ? |
| 28 | This time there was no need for him to force her up the dark steps of the barn ; she walked in front of him determinedly . |
| 29 | The judge was therefore at fault in considering that there was no need for him to pay explicit regard to the public interest in freedom of expression guaranteed by article 10 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ( 1953 ) ( Cmd. 8969 ) in seeking to resolve the uncertainty or ambiguity in the common law ; ( 7 ) in failing , as did Browne J. in the Bognor Regis case , to have proper regard to the public interest in freedom of expression and to the question of whether in a democratic society there really was a pressing social need to extend the ambit of the law of defamation to enable a governmental body to sue in respect of presumed ( and not actual ) injury to its governmental reputation ; ( 8 ) in failing to take into account the acceptance by the English courts of the fact that where a governmental plaintiff sought to invoke a private law right to interfere with freedom of discussion about the workings of government , the court 's approach would ( because of the competing public interests involved ) differ from that in a private dispute between citizen and citizen . |
| 30 | She 'd agreed with the head lad that there was no need for him to get up extra early , but he 'd insisted on leaving Shine On 's feed already made up . |