Example sentences of "it be for him " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's for him that I am accepting this honour . |
| 2 | It 's for him to come down here and settle his debts , like everybody else in the valley . |
| 3 | Well , I says to him , I 'm getting sick of these calls cos you do n't know if it 's for him or him . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Broadly speaking , the higher a person is in the management structure , the more essential it is for him or her to be given work when it is available . |
| 6 | This one 's just as much of a prezzie for you as it is for him because it smells absolutely delicious ! |
| 7 | I want him to know how futile it is for him to try and escape my influence … " |
| 8 | We have a resource which Jeremiah did n't have , but St–Paul did — the companionship of the Holy Spirit , to be the strength when our work leads to tears , and to be the encourager whatever we do and wherever we do it , so long as it is for Him . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Under the Electricity Act 1989 , it is for him to decide on the methodology for developing renewable energy in Scotland . |
| 11 | The legislation does therefore not set up any presumption in the employee 's favour ; rather it is for him as claimant to lead evidence which tends to establish that it is more likely than not the employer gained from possession of the patent . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He said it was for him the perfect realization of Sibelius as a passionate but anti-sensual composer . |
| 15 | As the Empress Eugénie remarked : ‘ It was for him a cannon ball that he dragged at his feet all his life . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Thoughts of Edward dominated her young life : it was for him that she yearned , breathed , existed . |
| 18 | Everything was wonderful , he said , and she knew it was for him . |
| 19 | Most meal-times took an hour or more but she had realized how important it was for him to eat . |
| 20 | Similarly , directors have noted how rare it was for him to bring his natural rage into play on screen . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It was for him a dreadful test of endurance . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Terry hated having to make these tapes and we knew how distressing it was for him . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | And he went and told them how necessary it was for him to go to Canada , in the interests of the firm . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |