Example sentences of "it was [adj] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so there was nothing going to waste and it was nice for me because once we 'd said goodbye I just had ten minutes , quarter of hour drive home |
| 2 | I was particularly thrilled with the guys who scored the points for us on the final day , Mark James , Jose-Maria Olazabal , Jose-Maria Canizares , Ronan Rafferty and Christy O'Connor Jnr. , because in the case of Canizares , Ronan and Christy they had n't scored a point in the games they played and it was nice for them to take some of the glory . |
| 3 | He was n't a very good poet , I do n't think , but it was nice for him to see his poems printed for once . |
| 4 | It was boring for them and now they go out they spend some time er amongst each other and they have time to chat around . |
| 5 | It was fortunate for you that I never insisted on accompanying you . ’ |
| 6 | The more Renee Henry learnt about the therapy , the more she became convinced that it was right for her . |
| 7 | I knew it was right for him — this is where he learnt to join in and be like other children . |
| 8 | Schiller had pleaded , once again going through the many reasons why it was right for him to gain a seat on the council . |
| 9 | I just did n't feel it was right for me , not then — he was angry , disappointed in me — ’ |
| 10 | I explained that we men were ready to stay if the meeting felt it was right for us to do so . |
| 11 | ‘ It was rotten for them . |
| 12 | It was illegal for him to enter into such an agreement . |
| 13 | It was illegal for him to enter into such an agreement . |
| 14 | It was sad for me , I thought , that I was the only girl in the world sufficiently stupid to permit herself to be sacrificed to his vanity . |
| 15 | It was sad for me that I had fallen in love with someone who did not love me , but it was not an experience I cared to repeat — for more and better reasons than the fear of pain . |
| 16 | Moreover , he himself had loyalties of his own to preserve , and it was well for him that he should not know too much . |
| 17 | ‘ It was crucial for us to secure this contract . |
| 18 | ‘ It was terrible for her and left her very shaken up . |
| 19 | ‘ But both Graham and I knew it was impractical for me to continue in the job and remain as manager of Exeter . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ The cases in which the principle has been applied are cases in which the nature , scope and purpose of the function vested in the repository made it unlikely that Parliament intended that it was to be exercised by the repository personally because administrative necessity indicated that it was impractical for him to act otherwise than through his officers or officers responsible to him . |
| 21 | It is clear from the conversation that there was sympathy for the person involved because it was easy for them to place themselves in that position , allowing the event to be normalized . |
| 22 | It was easy for them to feel that they were struggling to restrain their ally from some madcap act . |
| 23 | Soon she was leaving and it was easy for him to be charming . |
| 24 | It was n't easy for him , having to accept that God permitted chance , any more than it was easy for him to be a clergyman in a time when clergymen seemed superfluous . |
| 25 | It was easy for him ; the cloak of arrogance he habitually wore probably made him oblivious to the speculation of people like the receptionist . |
| 26 | I realized what a marvellous actor he was when I saw him in this and only wished that he had n't relied so much on the funny voices and hidden behind the easier way out of doing the characters that he could do so easily — and it was easy for him . |
| 27 | Bryzgin at the press conference said , ‘ It was easy for me because the others had achieved a wide margin so that I felt sure . ’ |
| 28 | It was easy for me to summon up this everyday vision , because whenever I sat on the toilet the hem was stretched between my calves , and if I leant forward it was always the salient object in my view . |
| 29 | It was easy for me to pretend to be in love with the Princess . |
| 30 | I had n't had any kind of pain relief — well , there was n't time ! — but the pain , although very intense , was only for a short time , so it was easy for me to bear . |