Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [noun sg] for him " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Whatever it was you said to him has caused him to cancel the work I was doing for him . |
| 2 | They were murder for him , I could tell . ’ |
| 3 | It 's time for him to match his maturity with his golf and realise he 's not going to win every time . |
| 4 | He must be able to stamp his authority not only on his team but on the peloton as a whole , directing the whole tenor of the race before it is time for him to go to the front and win . |
| 5 | He 's waitng for him to come back on his bike . |
| 6 | Mr Eames was just getting up , convinced that juniors and upstarts were usurping the stage and it was time for him to be where the action was , when he was interrupted by the bell . |
| 7 | From long experience he knew the hangover would pass before it was time for him to stalk on stage and rebuke Hamlet for grieving overmuch for his father . |
| 8 | It was time for him to leave as well . |
| 9 | It was time for him to intervene . |
| 10 | There he was provisioned with every known variety of soft drink , and kept virtually incommunicado until it was time for him to travel to Broadcasting House . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been very pleased to meet you , ’ Mother said to the old gentleman , when it was time for him to leave . |
| 12 | I thought that I had n't chosen to get married at all but that Syl had chosen to marry me , since it was time for him to marry and I offered no threat to the way and integrity of his life and character , and that my mother had chosen to see me wed because I was good for little else . |
| 13 | Soon it was time for him to return and it was arranged that Anne and Sarah who were both free would see him off at the station . |
| 14 | It was time for him to take action . |