Example sentences of "it [was/were] [prep] him [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had some guys come up , and they were , they were really pissed off with me because , my mum sort of like , this guy just done this with th th the stall next door , but he left some stuff that he obviously already had things of , which he did n't think it was worth him buying , and this guy came round , and they were obviously from one of these , you know how you get erm , secondhand erm record stores |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And he went and told them how necessary it was for him to go to Canada , in the interests of the firm . |
| 5 | The same day , Mobutu warned the conference against this course , asserting in a statement read on national radio that under the present Constitution it was for him to appoint the head of government . |
| 6 | Not only would I have refrained from interfering with Thorpe J. 's decision on the footing that he had properly directed himself and that it was for him to decide , but because , even on the facts as they then were , I consider that his decision was plainly right . |
| 7 | But Caspar , belatedly gallant , said that it was for him to lead the way . |
| 8 | At this moment it was for him to protect her , and he must find a way to do it . |
| 9 | He leaned forward , smiling , playing the perfect host , knowing how important it was for him to win these young men over . |
| 10 | So he said I I do n't want to keep you , and I I could see what struggle it was for him to come a er so often in the bad weather , that er I I started the same idea . |
| 11 | Similarly , directors have noted how rare it was for him to bring his natural rage into play on screen . |
| 12 | He avoided her glance , and she saw how difficult it was for him to admit to weakness . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Most meal-times took an hour or more but she had realized how important it was for him to eat . |
| 16 | It was unlike him to stay away from the office at all without telling me , though if something unexpected happened , I could understand that . |