Example sentences of "for him [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He never knew when he 'd be flying , you see , so I 'd wait for him every night at seven and hope he 'd be there . ’ |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | Not for him a trip to the cinema , or a visit to the local zoo . |
| 4 | The tale begins with a retarded youth , Robin , whose mother succeeds in arranging for him a marriage with a beautiful young woman , Mahaut . |
| 5 | The Colonel elaborated on the straightforward business of the reference section of the Ministry preparing for him a dossier on the British nuclear weapons programme . |
| 6 | It was at that time he wrote the first of a series of Scots novels which were to secure for him a place in the history of literature . |
| 7 | In his first term he had to write for him an essay on the art of poetry . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 | From the moment he had come to power , Napoleon III had made it plain that for him the problem of Paris was not simply one of creating prosperity for its inhabitants ; rather it was one of transforming and embellishing the city in such a way as to make life better for its inhabitants while simultaneously making it worthy of the new France . |
| 11 | Not for him the life of a squire ; not for him rain-swept , windswept Mayo with its barren mountains and bogs . |
| 12 | Not for him the promise of jam tomorrow or a brave , new world waiting just around the next bank overdraft . |
| 13 | I conceive of Kant as one saddened by Hume 's cold logic that destroyed for him the laws of causation in the physical world . |
| 14 | For him the laws of settlement hardly prevented the " idle poor " from wandering and a stricter enforcement of vagrancy laws would " compel the poor to starve or beg at home ; for there it will be impossible for them to steal or rob without being presently hanged or transported out of the way " . |
| 15 | That was his happiness , to talk to a captured ear was for him the thrill of seeing the Commandant 's office roofless and destroyed . |
| 16 | In particular , Keyes had come to identify with the Romantic movement , and it was Heath-Stubbs who was able to broaden Keyes 's base by tracing for him the origins of Romanticism in primitive legends through the medieval to the Augustan poets . |
| 17 | For him the girl in the picture ‘ was made to seem perfectly in context as he had never been able to see people before ’ . |
| 18 | For him the turn from winter to spring is milestoned with our coming , his smiling ‘ Bonjour Hamish ’ is a knife to my heart . |
| 19 | I came to believe that in the S.A.S. he had realised his ideal of chivalry in a contemporary setting ; and that with our marriage and my acceptance of his decision , the two halves of his nature had come together , and for him the enigma of character had been resolved . |
| 20 | It is clear to the right hon. Gentleman that for him the banner of rights and freedoms that he would wave represents a very different set of outcomes from those in which Conservatives believe . |
| 21 | Not for him the boulevards of Hollywood , nor the slender , sultry looks of Renaissance Screen Man . |
| 22 | Not for him the boulevards of Hollywood , nor the slender , sultry looks of Renaissance Screen Man . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | This was for him the beginning of an independent ‘ second career ’ after leaving the army . |
| 25 | For him the attraction of skyline walking is obvious — once you have made the initial effort to climb the first peak , everything else that follows is usually progressively less strenuous . |
| 26 | Not for him the method of modelling in clay and translating the result into other materials by mechanical means . |
| 27 | For him the criterion of musical phenomena was not mathematics but the ear . |
| 28 | She felt sorry for him once more ; she felt for him the compassion of an older sister , and at that point she did something quite unpremeditated : as she kept on walking , she turned her head back towards him , smiled and lifted her right arm out in the air , easily , flowingly , as if she were tossing a brightly coloured ball . |
| 29 | Not for him the path of apprenticeship followed by his two younger brothers — at least , not quite . |
| 30 | For him the reworking of familiar images is not simply a matter of drawing attention to the way in which mass-reproduction numbs the optic nerves , by shocking the spectator with a moustached Mona Lisa , but rather , using a peculiar blend of both iconoclasm and a sort of wry homage , of investigating the power of certain images , particularly those which have national resonance . |