Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] for she [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the world of self-effacing service in which the heroine moves with assurance : even if servitors are visible , it is not for her to notice them . |
| 2 | She still maintains it is not for her to disassociate herself from people over whom she has no control . |
| 3 | It is enough for her to know that things are going badly for Mrs Thatcher and the Tory party ; the details of the Westland affair do not engage her interest . |
| 4 | The policewoman shot her a look which said that it was not for her to say so , even if she , herself , had been thinking it . |
| 5 | It was not for her to criticise him . |
| 6 | If he felt that his work lay here , it was not for her to question his decision , but she sometimes wished that something might happen to make him change his mind . |
| 7 | He had banged his glass on the table and it was not for her to disobey . |