Example sentences of "[adj] it be [prep] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | I want him to know how futile it is for him to try and escape my influence … " |
| 5 | Most meal-times took an hour or more but she had realized how important it was for him to eat . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He leaned forward , smiling , playing the perfect host , knowing how important it was for him to win these young men over . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 15 | Terry hated having to make these tapes and we knew how distressing it was for him . |