Example sentences of "it [verb] be for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I show him how much I 've written here , how good a place it has been for me . |
| 2 | When fellwalking becomes a passion as it has been for me and many others , the summits are regarded as old friends and memories are refreshed on each visit . |
| 3 | I do n't think people have any idea how tough it has been for me . |
| 4 | He said , ‘ How wonderful it has been for us both to seek new understanding of each other as we have prayed together and sought healing from each other 's wounds . ’ |
| 5 | Their private parts were firmly jammed in the wringer and all it needed was for somebody to the rescue . |
| 6 | If possible , life was harder even for these ragged redskins than it had been for their forefathers after the war with Rope Thrower , when their livelihood had been deliberately burned away from them . |
| 7 | Carrie knew how hard it had been for her father , who had spent almost thirty-seven years as a horsekeeper for Galloway , to look for other employment . |
| 8 | The NVA representative who wrote to tell her of the decision explained that although he must have ‘ seemed unsympathetic in the past ’ , it had been for her own good . |
| 9 | The England that Pound mourns the loss of is , as it had been for him from the first , an integral province of western Europe , sharing a common culture with France and always reaching out , through France , to the shores of the Mediterranean . |
| 10 | He thought back to how it had been for him last winter . |
| 11 | I 'm sure it was , Patrick grinned as he walked down the corridor and climbed the half-dozen steps from the servants ' quarters up to the hall ; he had seen the look on the butler 's face , and knew how uncomfortable it had been for him . |
| 12 | He had seen how entirely wrong it had been for him to have assumed that Beatrice Throgmorton would look twice at him . |
| 13 | He paused and gave her an intense look that revealed a little of how it had been for him . |
| 14 | Convenience , that 's what it had been for her — little more . |
| 15 | You 've no idea how good it 's been for me out here . |