Example sentences of "[adj] it was [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember thinking how typical it was of her that she never thought of being wooed . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | No one would know how hard it was for her to act the bride she would never be . |
| 5 | By 19 November he had the whole amount , 30 francs , from Theo , and was writing to say how kind and humane it was of him to let him have the ticket money . |
| 6 | Then you will also know how stupid it was of you to attempt to deceive us . ’ |
| 7 | Most meal-times took an hour or more but she had realized how important it was for him to eat . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He leaned forward , smiling , playing the perfect host , knowing how important it was for him to win these young men over . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The boyish enthusiasm and glee with which John Major and his Cabinet greeted the result showed just how important it was to them . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He could see how hopeless it was for her . |
| 15 | ‘ People still write about how strange it was for me to be with someone like Catherine , ’ he says . |
| 16 | Oh , how doubly difficult it was for them both . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He avoided her glance , and she saw how difficult it was for him to admit to weakness . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Similarly , directors have noted how rare it was for him to bring his natural rage into play on screen . |
| 23 | And he went and told them how necessary it was for him to go to Canada , in the interests of the firm . |
| 24 | Naturally she had not wanted to go out with him , but both her mother and father stressed how nice it was of him to take such an interest in the fact that she was going off to university and wanted to take her to the pictures as a treat . |
| 25 | Terry hated having to make these tapes and we knew how distressing it was for him . |