Example sentences of "[adv] for him the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So for him the next test — whose result he was awaiting — would be crucial . |
| 2 | So for him the public sector has proved useful and at present he is a non-executive director of the Defence Research Agency Council . |
| 3 | So for him the technology holds no fears and he is always looking for ways to make the stock market more accessible to the ordinary man or woman in the street . |
| 4 | Thus for him the male has a lesser role , simply preparing the matter contributed by the female , so that it is ready to accept the soul . |
| 5 | Not for him the carefully charted route to the top . |
| 6 | Not for him the Baden-Powell approach of rubbing two Boy Scouts together ; he liberally douses the twigs with paraffin and throws in a match . |
| 7 | Not for him the elevation and security of Wordsworth 's appointment as His Majesty 's Distributor of Stamps for the County of Westmorland . |
| 8 | Not for him the acrobatics that fiction attributes to the American rich . |
| 9 | Not for him the pleasures or the relief of omnipotence ! |
| 10 | Not for him the emancipation and the exultation and the divinity of creative work ! |
| 11 | Not for him the intricate miracles of Gothic architecture . |
| 12 | Not for him the life of a squire ; not for him rain-swept , windswept Mayo with its barren mountains and bogs . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Not for him the path of apprenticeship followed by his two younger brothers — at least , not quite . |
| 16 | Not for him the satellites , computers and massive back-up team the Michael Fishes , Suzanne Charltons and Alex Hills of TV depend upon for their forecasts . |
| 17 | Not for him the good old days of the 1960s , when the Mirror — social conscience and all — reigned supreme and Pilger was churning out his hard-hitting reports . |
| 18 | Not for him the limited intellectual life of some academics , who spend their careers developing minor lines of enquiry from their doctoral theses and seldom move far from the safety of their chosen subject . |
| 19 | Not for him the method of modelling in clay and translating the result into other materials by mechanical means . |
| 20 | Not for him the inane bromides of lesser managers ; outspoken wit and intelligence were the hallmark of his post-match reflections . |
| 21 | Not for him the privations of the secret outdoor life ; he stalked the rich carpets of the Ainsworth home like a king and the ornate collar he always wore added something more to his presence . |
| 22 | Not for him the cynical moralities of Pauson , who presented humanity worse than it is , or the fidelity of the painter Dionysus to observable particularity : he was beauty 's slave , and beauty is made , he knew , not found . |
| 23 | Not for him the glitzy party animal networking of the Beverly Hills A-list . |
| 24 | Not for him the histrionics which always seemed to accompany a Mansell win last year . |
| 25 | Not for him the boulevards of Hollywood , nor the slender , sultry looks of Renaissance Screen Man . |
| 26 | Not for him the boulevards of Hollywood , nor the slender , sultry looks of Renaissance Screen Man . |
| 27 | Not for him the promise of jam tomorrow or a brave , new world waiting just around the next bank overdraft . |
| 28 | He got himself up in the morning and dressed in the clothes Emmie had put out for him the night before . |
| 29 | Unfortunately for him the work was being done close to the room where one of the most lively goats lived . |
| 30 | Marx was very much concerned with conflict ; indeed for him the driving force of history is based upon conflict between different groups or classes within society . |