Example sentences of "[conj] for [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , most of their problems spring from the fact that for them the two functions are deeply connected . |
| 2 | Alec said that for him the daily instruction from the word of God in one 's quiet time was the place where , over a period of weeks , we should receive guidance from God . |
| 3 | I knew that for him The Fat Controller confirmed it — I was his Wolf Man , his Anna O. He told me as much . |
| 4 | On the other hand , if for her the impossible was not merely possible , not merely probable but certain , she destroyed the route to wonder that might have enhanced her living days . |
| 5 | C , on the other hand , has to be clear and reasonably accurate ; and for him the historical terminology must be correctly used . |
| 6 | When he was hot , he was hot , but for me the whole thing was not so good . |
| 7 | Eliot seems to have ignored these suggestions because for him the physical and social landscape of London was no more than a screen on which to project a phantasmagoria that expressed his own personal disorders and desperations ( partly sexual , as one might expect , and as the drafts make clear ) ; whereas Pound seems to have supposed that the subject of the poem was London in all its historical and geographical actuality , much as the city of Dublin was from one point of view the subject of Joyce 's Ulysses . |