Example sentences of "for him the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Make him fit the bill ; imagine for him the attributes that you require . |
| 32 | I would refer back to Sir Peter Hall 's comment on Present Laughter here — for him the failure of that play is in direct proportion to its not being about homosexuals . |
| 33 | Sandy was going to the US and I asked if I could carry for him the next year , but everybody was asking so I did n't get very far . |
| 34 | For him the criterion of musical phenomena was not mathematics but the ear . |
| 35 | Only marriage has for him the required social connotations , expressing the kind of personal and social commitment mentioned earlier . |
| 36 | C , on the other hand , has to be clear and reasonably accurate ; and for him the historical terminology must be correctly used . |
| 37 | For him the issue did not become live until well after the 1959 general election . |
| 38 | In standing out for true sportsmanship on the field Mr Chapman , loyally backed by his players , set a standard which has raised the sport he loved to the highest level , and has won for him the gratitude of sportsmen the world over . ’ |
| 39 | New friendships , as much as politics and poetry , transformed for him the final years of school . |
| 40 | Unfortunately for him the work was being done close to the room where one of the most lively goats lived . |
| 41 | I conceive of Kant as one saddened by Hume 's cold logic that destroyed for him the laws of causation in the physical world . |
| 42 | In a way he sees the eternal and translates into human words the wonder of existence ; for him the individual soul has eternal meaning . |
| 43 | Not for him the life of a squire ; not for him rain-swept , windswept Mayo with its barren mountains and bogs . |
| 44 | For him the small , ancient Saxon church of Clayton , nestling at the foot of the Sussex Downs . |
| 45 | Not for him the slightly raucous ribaldry with which most of the chaps used to greet us , no slaps on the rear or tweaking of curls , or addressing us as ‘ darling ’ or ‘ my love ’ . |
| 46 | Yes , ’ said Joe , as he poured Runner 's unfinished cider into a bottle ready for him the next night , ‘ he 's blessed with a good woman . |
| 47 | He finds Miriam appealing and she holds for him the added attraction of being married and committed herself . |
| 48 | And since for him the market implied commodity production , and value as a mediating form in social economic relations , the idea of ‘ market socialism ’ would have been anathema . |
| 49 | But the lute remains for him the most satisfying instrument to make : shaping the huge bowl-shaped backs is ‘ kinda wondrous ’ . |
| 50 | This was for him the beginning of an independent ‘ second career ’ after leaving the army . |
| 51 | I realise his problem is an addiction , rather like gambling — but for him the thrill is high-risk financial ideas . |
| 52 | For him the house was filled with suffering and fluffed attempts to pretend that suffering did n't exist . |
| 53 | Alec said that for him the daily instruction from the word of God in one 's quiet time was the place where , over a period of weeks , we should receive guidance from God . |
| 54 | For him the cow epitomises the sub-human world ; it is , by its very existence , a plea for justice on behalf of the animal world . |
| 55 | For him the girl in the picture ‘ was made to seem perfectly in context as he had never been able to see people before ’ . |
| 56 | Not for him the blind search for a nipple , no free of the womb' spasms to jerk his limbs ; he was happy to be apart , independent , an entity unto himself . |
| 57 | Not for him the path of apprenticeship followed by his two younger brothers — at least , not quite . |
| 58 | So for him the public sector has proved useful and at present he is a non-executive director of the Defence Research Agency Council . |
| 59 | For him the Bible was a precise historical narrative from which all lessons of conduct could be drawn . |
| 60 | For him the turn from winter to spring is milestoned with our coming , his smiling ‘ Bonjour Hamish ’ is a knife to my heart . |