Example sentences of "[vb pp] for him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite possibly another administration than a British one , less morally aspiring and less legally punctilious , would have arranged for him a quiet accident , or a fatal incarceration . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Maxwell Davies has written for him a 20-minute piece which makes full use of these strengths . |
| 4 | New friendships , as much as politics and poetry , transformed for him the final years of school . |
| 5 | This last appointment would have procured for him a secure income and a safe environment for life , had he remained in it . |
| 6 | But the exercise of editing had become for him a mechanical one , and he was glad to be rid of it . |
| 7 | When he exiled himself to Jersey , it was to surround himself with ‘ the sinister sheep of the sea ’ , ‘ the hydra-headed dragon ’ , which had become for him an image of the abyss , of fate , and of God . |
| 8 | He would never set foot in Liberty 's , let alone Harrods — those haunts of the rich and the would-be rich represented for him the scornful laughter of the haves towards the have-nots . |
| 9 | In reply to a letter from Sheldon Vanauken , who , after his wife 's death , wrote to Lewis about their love which had remained for him an end in itself , Lewis replied : |
| 10 | In some senses you know when it happens to a male student , he is not he does n't have confirmed for him the sense that he is only a sexual object and that this is yet more of the way in which he is always perceived . |
| 11 | Though Coleridge continued at the King 's School for several months , delighting his mother by pointing out the new master 's faulty knowledge of grammar , in April 1782 Francis Buller , a family friend and later an eminent judge , obtained for him a presentation to Christ 's Hospital in London ( the Blue Coat School ) , ‘ there to be educated , and brought up among other poor children ’ . |
| 12 | As he wrote the words , he knew quite well that his grave had been dug for him the day before , once a reprieve had been refused . |
| 13 | could not have been happier , both personally and in creating an atmosphere conducive to his work … the domestic ideal that is evident in his writings ( the family being his favourite subject of study and lecturing ) was most clearly represented by his own home life … his wife created for him the respectable and quiet familial existence which he considered the best guarantee of morality and of life . |