Example sentences of "for [pers pn] the [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These particular ones wo n't be going that far , but for them the Church of England will never be the same again . |
| 2 | All 72 of the privatised National Bus Company subsidiaries left the best scheme , which was for them the equivalent of TOPS and broke the link between pension rights and the rise in the cost of living . |
| 3 | All 72 of the privatised National Bus Company subsidiaries left the best scheme , which was for them the equivalent of TOPS and broke the link between pension rights and the rise in the cost of living . |
| 4 | The socialist parties thought of themselves as the avant-garde of a class which was striving to bring into existence a new kind of society , and for them the struggle for power of the working class was , in principle , more important than any existing institutions . |
| 5 | Tait , with William Thomson , had published a Treatise on Natural Philosophy in 1867 which became a standard advanced textbook because it treated physics from the point of view of conservation of energy — fathering the doctrine , as became two Cambridge men , upon Newton : the ‘ return to Newton ’ was for them the key to modernity . |
| 6 | For them the role of victim of white gangs is over . |
| 7 | Not for me the pursuit of excellence on the playing fields of England . |
| 8 | The young men had been playing football against a team from the small local college at Adrar , the town which was for me the end of tarmac and the beginning of the desert ; for these city boys , it was the last outpost . |
| 9 | But for me the agent for personality change is not hormonal . |
| 10 | From the moment he had come to power , Napoleon III had made it plain that for him the problem of Paris was not simply one of creating prosperity for its inhabitants ; rather it was one of transforming and embellishing the city in such a way as to make life better for its inhabitants while simultaneously making it worthy of the new France . |
| 11 | Not for him the promise of jam tomorrow or a brave , new world waiting just around the next bank overdraft . |
| 12 | For him the turn from winter to spring is milestoned with our coming , his smiling ‘ Bonjour Hamish ’ is a knife to my heart . |
| 13 | I came to believe that in the S.A.S. he had realised his ideal of chivalry in a contemporary setting ; and that with our marriage and my acceptance of his decision , the two halves of his nature had come together , and for him the enigma of character had been resolved . |
| 14 | It is clear to the right hon. Gentleman that for him the banner of rights and freedoms that he would wave represents a very different set of outcomes from those in which Conservatives believe . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | For him the attraction of skyline walking is obvious — once you have made the initial effort to climb the first peak , everything else that follows is usually progressively less strenuous . |
| 17 | Not for him the path of apprenticeship followed by his two younger brothers — at least , not quite . |
| 18 | The rejection is there in Hobbes too ; for him the basis of explanation is matter in motion . |
| 19 | For him the power of love is paramount . |
| 20 | Even if she could be brought to view his actions in his own light , he would remain for her the instrument of death . |
| 21 | But for her the difference of sex is essentially of no more import than are differences of race . |
| 22 | God could so easily say that , too , but he does not ; he negotiates from a basis of weakness which becomes for us the power of God unto salvation . |