Example sentences of "be [noun] for him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now there are calls for him to resign . |
| 2 | This boy is clearly highly disturbed and there are dangers for him in either of the options which were open to the justices to make the order or to refuse it . |
| 3 | Did n't used to really , ooh it must of been murder for him when you think ! |
| 4 | I wonder how he would have done in today 's game , do you think there would have been room for him today ? |
| 5 | There would be opportunities for him to rejoin the council at a later date , however . |
| 6 | When he grew up there would always be work for him on the estate . |
| 7 | Of course it must be agony for him to go shopping for me ( what does he do at the chemist 's ? ) , so I suppose he prefers to get it all over in one go . |
| 8 | What may suit you would be folly for him . |
| 9 | And to be company for him in his old age among this sorority of Slavonic women he seemed to be siring . |
| 10 | Describing himself as ‘ a retired fiddler ’ , he was reluctant to say which of the many festival events would be highlights for him , but could hardly deny , that one will certainly be a performance by his former pupil , Claire Roff , now 18 , who began playing the violin when she was only four . |
| 11 | They were murder for him , I could tell . ’ |
| 12 | Well I do n't think there 's provision for him now you see because it 's a |
| 13 | There 's room for him at the forge ! ’ ‘ |
| 14 | Indeed , the hard-liners who always argue that monetary stability has to be a higher priority than growth and jobs have claimed that the Chancellor would be irresponsible in not raising taxes as soon as there is scope for him to do so . |
| 15 | Thomas Knowlton ( 1691–1781 ) , a gardener employed first by William Sherard and then by the Earl of Burlington , wrote to Samuel Brewer in 1741 , ‘ as to Miller he does not look at poor men , only a lord or a duke is company for him ’ . |
| 16 | He 's waitng for him to come back on his bike . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It 's time for him to match his maturity with his golf and realise he 's not going to win every time . |
| 19 | Provost John Cunningham admitted that Main had not possessed a commission as watchman and was indeed an extraordinary officer employed only when there was work for him to perform , but there seems little reason to doubt that Main 's removal was intended to serve the political interest of the Haldanes , for his removal was not an isolated case , and , moreover , when the Hamilton salt works resumed operations the excise supervisors did not in fact restore Main to his old post , but appointed an individual named Curinan to the vacancy . |
| 20 | " Whatever it was you said to him has caused him to cancel the work I was doing for him . |
| 21 | There was a strange moment then , when he knew the bastard was still in the room , still watching him , and all he could do was wait for him to leave . |
| 22 | a It was a_________occurrence for him to be away from school . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It was time for him to leave as well . |
| 26 | It was time for him to intervene . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been very pleased to meet you , ’ Mother said to the old gentleman , when it was time for him to leave . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |