Example sentences of "it was for him " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a knock on the door in the early hours of the morning , she had curlers in her hair , and my father , thinking it was for him , told her not to panic . |
| 2 | He said it was for him the perfect realization of Sibelius as a passionate but anti-sensual composer . |
| 3 | As the Empress Eugénie remarked : ‘ It was for him a cannon ball that he dragged at his feet all his life . ’ |
| 4 | It had taken a week to obtain , and had Hapsburg officialdom realized that it was for him rather than Aranyos it would have been unlikely to arrive before the end of the war . |
| 5 | Thoughts of Edward dominated her young life : it was for him that she yearned , breathed , existed . |
| 6 | Everything was wonderful , he said , and she knew it was for him . |
| 7 | Most meal-times took an hour or more but she had realized how important it was for him to eat . |
| 8 | Similarly , directors have noted how rare it was for him to bring his natural rage into play on screen . |
| 9 | She knew how important it was for him to be in a good army , and if the war had ended in Rhodesia , then perhaps another might start in one of France 's old colonies so that the Legion could get involved . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was for him a dreadful test of endurance . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She did not feel angry with him : she could imagine how it was for him : woman after woman after woman , all the same , all different , weeping on occasion for fear , boredom , pain , frustration , humiliation . |
| 15 | Terry hated having to make these tapes and we knew how distressing it was for him . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And he went and told them how necessary it was for him to go to Canada , in the interests of the firm . |
| 18 | Then he said I was too innocent to realise how hard it was for him just to see me for half an hour and a kiss and cuddle . ’ |
| 19 | But Caspar , belatedly gallant , said that it was for him to lead the way . |
| 20 | He leaned forward , smiling , playing the perfect host , knowing how important it was for him to win these young men over . |
| 21 | It was for him that she had raised Luke to be the man he was . |
| 22 | It was for him that now she was entertaining this arrow-straight , dark-eyed young scoundrel who would be likely to repay her by seducing her daughter , she thought , if she still had one , and who would probably forget everything he 'd ever heard about hunger in St Jude 's , or in County Kildare for that matter , should he ever find himself well-fed in Westminster . |
| 23 | At this moment it was for him to protect her , and he must find a way to do it . |
| 24 | It was for him . |
| 25 | ‘ You read Mark 's letter , felt for him , saw his side , which is entirely understandable , but did you give Luke a chance to explain , tell you how it was for him ? ’ |
| 26 | During the summer , the Prime Minister kept saying how essential it was for him to be present at Maastricht in December in order to make decisions , but the word from Downing street now is that the Prime Minister 's greatest ambition at Maastricht is to fend off making any decisions . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ( It was for him that Dhuoda , far south in Uzès , now began her book of moral guidance . |
| 29 | It was for him that St Bernard wrote his famous tract on papal power . |
| 30 | He avoided her glance , and she saw how difficult it was for him to admit to weakness . |