Example sentences of "[adv] for [pers pn] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Not for them the comprehensibility or even the logic spelt out by the Prime Minister shortly after his election as leader of the Conservative party when he rightly said that there was something wrong with a tax that resulted in 50 per cent . |
| 4 | Not for them the buoyancy , cost-effectiveness , fairness and progressiveness that ’ Fair Rates ’ offers to the British people . |
| 5 | Not for him the life of a squire ; not for him rain-swept , windswept Mayo with its barren mountains and bogs . |
| 6 | Not for him the promise of jam tomorrow or a brave , new world waiting just around the next bank overdraft . |
| 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 path of apprenticeship followed by his two younger brothers — at least , not quite . |
| 9 | Not for him the emancipation and the exultation and the divinity of creative work ! |
| 10 | Not for him the method of modelling in clay and translating the result into other materials by mechanical means . |
| 11 | Not for him the acrobatics that fiction attributes to the American rich . |
| 12 | Not for her the summit this day ; she 'd left the others to it . |
| 13 | NOT for her the stay-at-home , cookie-making image as a wife . |
| 14 | Not for me the pursuit of excellence on the playing fields of England . |
| 15 | Not for us the tourist sledge of the one- or two-day package visitor , a short contraption , more tea tray than means of transport . |
| 16 | The poet writes for , and gives a voice to , people whose privileged education has closed off for them the possibility of speaking as limpidly and directly as the speaker of ‘ The Widow 's Lament in Springtime ’ . |
| 17 | The purpose of RE is to help them genuinely to reflect upon religion , opening up for them the possibility of a self-chosen and real commitment , religious or otherwise , so that the individual can freely play his or her role in the wider community , whether this be the faith community or society as a whole . |
| 18 | The ad people know that girls are watching and that they can attract them and form their ideas by making the girl associate their product with a particular image — so that when she is looking at a hair gel in a chemist 's , that will conjure up for her the image of the model used to advertise it , and make her want to look that way herself , and want to buy it . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't know anyone else would stick up for me the way you do . ’ |
| 20 | There had been , for one thing , enormous population growth I 'll put the figures up for you The population had roughly trebled er between seventeen hundred and eighteen fifty and then , in the period we 're primarily concerned with here , the hundred years from eighteen fifty to nineteen fifty have increased from four hundred and thirty million up to five hundred and eighty million . |
| 21 | Counsel conjured up for us the picture of the accused person , after a gruelling day in court , returning to the cells to be met with the sight of an official of the Serious Fraud Office , armed with a further batch of questions , which he would be forced to answer on pain of being prosecuted for another offence . |
| 22 | He got himself up in the morning and dressed in the clothes Emmie had put out for him the night before . |
| 23 | Even for you the sun can cause premature ageing , although you might not see the damage until years later . |
| 24 | Unfortunately for them the person who rented the place did n't know that the stables across the yard are let separately as a holiday cottage . ’ |
| 25 | Unfortunately for him the work was being done close to the room where one of the most lively goats lived . |
| 26 | Many Portuguese people in hotels and restaurants speak French if not English , but unfortunately for us the Met people did not , in general . |
| 27 | Fortunately for her the camera had already fallen in love with the new royal cover girl . |
| 28 | Maybe for her the tumult of your years together outweighed the happiness . |
| 29 | Indeed for me the conference was a great opportunity to meet so many CA staff , whose vitality and unity , in a common cause impressed me . |
| 30 | So Eliot wrote in 1926 when for him the poet whose ‘ horrified eyes ’ saw most clearly the ‘ chasm between the real and the ideal ’ was Baudelaire . |