Example sentences of "it was [adj -er] for [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eileen 's commanding officer took them to a room and gave them tea , and tried to explain to them that it was better for her to remain . |
| 2 | It 's not my family you know , ’ because it was better for her to stop . |
| 3 | It was safer for them to have one old woman occupying part of the place than to leave it empty and risk a group of drifters moving in . |
| 4 | It was easier for her to see Chris now . |
| 5 | For various reasons , intellectual , historical and sexual , it was easier for her to accept things as they were than for Peter . |
| 6 | It was easier for him to decide what was not true . |
| 7 | It was easier for him to come to me . ’ |
| 8 | The confusion of person in the first sentence is understandable as the contract was written out in Old George 's hand ; and as the sole contracting party on one side it was easier for him to write my than the more impersonal , if more accurate , the master 's or some other third person equivalent . |
| 9 | The argument is that it was easier for them to maintain the part of their image of statelessness which consisted of ‘ how we have always done things ’ , than it would have been if they had individually moved into town and settled into a bidonville . |
| 10 | It was easier for them to demand money from the Government than argue plans past their local unions . |
| 11 | So it but it was easier for you to go home if you wanted to I suppose . |