Example sentences of "[adj] it be for him " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | I want him to know how futile it is for him to try and escape my influence … " |
| 4 | Most meal-times took an hour or more but she had realized how important it was for him to eat . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He leaned forward , smiling , playing the perfect host , knowing how important it was for him to win these young men over . |
| 7 | Broadly speaking , the higher a person is in the management structure , the more essential it is for him or her to be given work when it is available . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The older the child is the harder it is for him to overcome his difficulty , but there are courses and there are techniques available which definitely do help children to overcome their problems with reading and with spelling and with language as a whole . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He avoided her glance , and she saw how difficult it was for him to admit to weakness . |
| 12 | Similarly , directors have noted how rare it was for him to bring his natural rage into play on screen . |
| 13 | And he went and told them how necessary it was for him to go to Canada , in the interests of the firm . |
| 14 | Terry hated having to make these tapes and we knew how distressing it was for him . |