Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] was for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew how easy it was for someone to conceal himself amongst the clutter of hanging garments , unseen and unsuspected , while even grown-ups went about their business in ignorance of his presence . |
| 2 | And suddenly she knew how much she longed to see them , to introduce him to them , and to tell them how sorry she was for her wild behaviour over Terry , and for her conceited folly over Havvie . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | No one would know how hard it was for her to act the bride she would never be . |
| 6 | Most meal-times took an hour or more but she had realized how important it was for him to eat . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He leaned forward , smiling , playing the perfect host , knowing how important it was for him to win these young men over . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Back in those Hard Times , funerals offered us the comfort of knowing that , however tough it was for me and thee , there was always somebody who had it worse . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He could see how hopeless it was for her . |
| 14 | ‘ People still write about how strange it was for me to be with someone like Catherine , ’ he says . |
| 15 | It hit me just how right Anne had been when she said that teaching was the only job I knew — and how horribly ill-equipped I was for anything else . |
| 16 | She was n't at all good at concealing how worried she was for his safety . |
| 17 | Oh , how doubly difficult it was for them both . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He avoided her glance , and she saw how difficult it was for him to admit to weakness . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Similarly , directors have noted how rare it was for him to bring his natural rage into play on screen . |
| 24 | And he went and told them how necessary it was for him to go to Canada , in the interests of the firm . |
| 25 | How ready she was for him to fuck her . |
| 26 | Terry hated having to make these tapes and we knew how distressing it was for him . |