Example sentences of "[was/were] for he [art] " in BNC.

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1	As the Empress Eugénie remarked : ‘ It was for him a cannon ball that he dragged at his feet all his life . ’
2	Ultimately , his change of pace and flight of the ball broke up the rhythm of Lee , who perhaps rather over pressed in the first set and found himself 0–5 down before he adjusted his momentum to claw four games back before Galasso 's touch and confidence returned , in what was for him a perfect final game and a match point won with a brilliant lob .
3	Even his understanding of musical pattern and musical form , which in practice was for him a deeply instinctive activity , was discussed in terms of the musical pattern which is " latent in common speech " .
4	It was for him a dreadful test of endurance .
5	Anaud had in some ways a curiously desexualized view of the body and spoke of a ‘ body without organs ’ , which was for him a body deprived mainly of functions of reproduction and defecation , that was mainly a locus of feeling and sensation .
6	He said it was for him the perfect realization of Sibelius as a passionate but anti-sensual composer .
7	This was for him the beginning of an independent ‘ second career ’ after leaving the army .
8	That was his happiness , to talk to a captured ear was for him the thrill of seeing the Commandant 's office roofless and destroyed .
9	His idea of the " popular play " is important , since his devotion to the music hall and his belief that the poet can only be socially useful in the theatre spurred him on to achieve what was for him the unachievable : the plays bear all the marks of their deliberate and laborious composition .
10	Whatever the uncertainties of the precise dates , events and social connections in Rolle 's life it is clear from external and internal evidence that he felt increasingly compelled towards a solitary life because it facilitated contemplative inner life which was for him the reality to be cultivated above all other .

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