Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [adj] [pers pn] be for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could see how hopeless it was for her . |
| 2 | ‘ People still write about how strange it was for me to be with someone like Catherine , ’ he says . |
| 3 | It 's astonishing how easy it is for us grown-ups to lose touch with the ability to shake off our responsibilities and inhibitions . |
| 4 | How glad I am for them ! |
| 5 | I think that 's true what Yona says you know it it is Cos you know I the sort of the political people of the town tend to be councillors who are er men mainly and set in their ways and think that because they 've got the label councillor behind you know b front of their name that they 're they are for life you know it 's And they 're sort of respectable inverted commas members of the community and you know and I mean I hope that out of out of all this I mean it 's it 's a shame it has to happen in such a desperate situation you know because I mean none of us can really feel glad that Because to be on strike is I mean each day is is hard I 'm sure for well I mean I can only say because to be close to people on strike it 's quite a unique thing really for me and i you become so involved and close to people and you realize how hard it is for them . |
| 6 | No one would know how hard it was for her to act the bride she would never be . |
| 7 | She told herself later that she could n't have been expected to remember what a knife-edge he lived on , how hard it was for him to trust anyone . |
| 8 | Then he said I was too innocent to realise how hard it was for him just to see me for half an hour and a kiss and cuddle . ’ |
| 9 | " But think how good I am for you . |
| 10 | 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 . " |
| 11 | I want him to know how futile it is for him to try and escape my influence … " |
| 12 | You should know how lonely it is for us . ’ |
| 13 | I can tell him how important it is for us to have a home of our own . |
| 14 | Most meal-times took an hour or more but she had realized how important it was for him to eat . |
| 15 | She knew how important it was for him to be in a good army , and if the war had ended in Rhodesia , then perhaps another might start in one of France 's old colonies so that the Legion could get involved . |
| 16 | He leaned forward , smiling , playing the perfect host , knowing how important it was for him to win these young men over . |
| 17 | Our guide Sam gave us very clear instructions — he did n't need to emphasise how important it was for us to do exactly as he said . |
| 18 | During the summer , the Prime Minister kept saying how essential it was for him to be present at Maastricht in December in order to make decisions , but the word from Downing street now is that the Prime Minister 's greatest ambition at Maastricht is to fend off making any decisions . |
| 19 | She felt the tight leather skirt being wriggled upwards to bare her scorching behind , and when his cool fingers touched her hot flesh she realised just how hot she was for him . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | Unfortunately many employees also know how difficult it is for us to stop them simply imposing changes without agreement from the people that are affected . |
| 22 | In fact , Galileo 's Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina ( 1615 ) shows how difficult it was for him to pursue such an argument , even had he wished . |
| 23 | He avoided her glance , and she saw how difficult it was for him to admit to weakness . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The New York Herald headlined ‘ These Girl 's Do n't Drink , Smoke or Flirt ’ and printed an article , attributed to Mary , in which she explained how difficult it was for her to maintain discipline in a society where young girls were surrounded on every side by such bad examples of free and easy ways in all walks of life . |
| 27 | It just shows , I think , how vigilant Councillors need to be when you get all these documents , and you do get many of them if you 're a District County Councillor , and how necessary it is for you to read them and study them and to remember because these things are very very important when they 're put in when it goes to higher authority at that time . |
| 28 | And he went and told them how necessary it was for him to go to Canada , in the interests of the firm . |
| 29 | Similarly , directors have noted how rare it was for him to bring his natural rage into play on screen . |
| 30 | Terry hated having to make these tapes and we knew how distressing it was for him . |