Example sentences of "it be [prep] he [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's for him to come down here and settle his debts , like everybody else in the valley . |
| 2 | Well I er do n't agree that there has been er understaffing and in the statement which I made to the House today I was able to point out what a very big increase in er the total complement of the prison officers has taken place during recent years , but it 's up to Lord Justice Woolf to look in to whatever evidence is put before him , it 's for him to look at the terms of reference and he will no doubt decide what is relevant and what is not . |
| 3 | He takes the understandable view that it is for him to take the first steps in Russia , which he is doing to keep the scientists in Russia . |
| 4 | Under the Electricity Act 1989 , it is for him to decide on the methodology for developing renewable energy in Scotland . |
| 5 | I want him to know how futile it is for him to try and escape my influence … " |
| 6 | The older the child is the harder it is for him to overcome his difficulty , but there are courses and there are techniques available which definitely do help children to overcome their problems with reading and with spelling and with language as a whole . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And he went and told them how necessary it was for him to go to Canada , in the interests of the firm . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But Caspar , belatedly gallant , said that it was for him to lead the way . |
| 13 | At this moment it was for him to protect her , and he must find a way to do it . |
| 14 | He leaned forward , smiling , playing the perfect host , knowing how important it was for him to win these young men over . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Similarly , directors have noted how rare it was for him to bring his natural rage into play on screen . |
| 17 | He avoided her glance , and she saw how difficult it was for him to admit to weakness . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Most meal-times took an hour or more but she had realized how important it was for him to eat . |
| 21 | It was unlike him to stay away from the office at all without telling me , though if something unexpected happened , I could understand that . |