Example sentences of "[be] a [noun] for he " in BNC.
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| 1 | She remembered Nails 's dogged determination riding Midnight , swallowing his male arrogance to knuckle under to a girl 's instructions : it had really been a struggle for him . |
| 2 | Ardiles said : ‘ When we are back to full-strength there would n't have been a place for him . ’ |
| 3 | I think it 'll be a blow for him ; he does get so attached to people . ’ |
| 4 | Colin resents the notion that he does n't carry a big punch and this could be a chance for him to try to prove otherwise as Palacio admits to having been knocked out four times in his 58-fight career . |
| 5 | Could there be a warning for him in the circumstances of Tubby 's decline ? |
| 6 | Ponteus Pilot should be a banker for him in the Members race , and his other prospects include Seven of Diamonds in the Open . |
| 7 | Also it was about time he learnt that bossing her around would n't be a push-over for him . |
| 8 | The past rejections he had been able to live with ; there was always the hope that one day , sooner or later , there would be a vacancy for him within the Russian Space Programme . |
| 9 | Drawing was always to be a liberation for him . |
| 10 | There was unlikely to be a place for him in a reconstituted kingdom of Aquitaine that included Septimania and was ruled by Charles the Bald . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't know , ’ Sapt said , ‘ but if he does n't get to his coronation today , there 'll never be a coronation for him . |
| 12 | He went to the hall table , where the postman usually deposited any mail , in the hope that there might be a letter for him , though most of his mail came via Isobel . |
| 13 | Glass has been given to believe that there may be a future for him and Maria together , so he has agreed to help get Leonard out of Berlin . |
| 14 | If I 'm going to be a stand-in for him , even temporarily , like this , I really need to know more about him , and that seems as good a way as any . |
| 15 | She had to be a prop for him to lean on when his own despair grew too great . |
| 16 | She probably did tell him to go away and stop following her around , but that would n't be a reason for him screaming he 'd kill her . ’ |
| 17 | If we must have ‘ classics ’ let us accept James Steel Smith 's definition of a book that ‘ provides some special imaginative experience which the child is not likely to get from other sources — or at least in the same degree of intensity — and which ‘ it would be a shame for him to miss ’ ( 1967 , p. 121 ) . |
| 18 | I wo n't be a beggar for him — the swine — but I will be one for Samavia and the Lost Prince . |
| 19 | He felt as though there were a space for him in the universe , and he exactly filled it . |
| 20 | Oh well , it 's a sport for him , yes . |
| 21 | Stuff like what you 're talking about , it 's a game for him . |
| 22 | There 's a letter for him there . |
| 23 | ‘ There is a shelter for him , but he never uses it . |
| 24 | When a female appears , her swollen abdomen holding eggs is a stimulus for him to engage in a zig zag dance . |
| 25 | Such poems ‘ need not be stimulated by real-life events ’ such as the plight of the Marseilles dock-workers , which has effaced the sight — darkly limned in Jaromil 's juvenilia — of Magda in her bath ; and if the poet who displays his ignorant , indifferent self-portrait is hoping for applause , there is a chance for him to do well in the new world of revolution , which rings with applause , and with blame . |
| 26 | It is a chance for him to prove he can make it in the Football League . ’ |
| 27 | The relevant sections state that ‘ it is a defence for him to prove that the failure arose from circumstances beyond his control . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ If a person presenting or directing the performance is not shown to have intended to stir up racial hatred , it is a defence for him to prove — ( a ) that he did not know and had no reason to suspect that the performance would involve the use of the offending words or behaviour , or ( b ) that he did not know and had no reason to suspect that the offending words or behaviour were threatening , abusive or insulting , or ( c ) that he did not know and had no reason to suspect that the circumstances in which the performance would be given would be such that racial hatred would be likely to be stirred up . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ He lost 10 or 11 kilos , which is a lot for him . |
| 30 | What the right hon. Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) said is a matter for him . |