Example sentences of "for him the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | David Tindle gained the impression , from conversations with Minton , that for him the central concern was the structuring of human content into form . |
2 | For him the Dutch Texel is the original Texel ; it comes from the island of Texel and has been bred there for many generations . |
3 | I wrote for him the following poem ; it seems to me now rather jejune , but it was the spontaneous overflow from a heart both proud and anxious , and not greatly concerned with turning out a literary exemplar : Parachutists ( for L.G.C. ) |
4 | Modigliani declined as politely but suggested to Lunia that she should come to his studio and pose for him the following day . |
5 | But Jim insisted , insisted that I bought him a pint and asked me to caddie for him the following week at St Anne 's . |
6 | He will be able to handle a wider range of options with only mnemonic guidance — for him the minimum number of key-strokes for program control is appropriate . |
7 | In a way he sees the eternal and translates into human words the wonder of existence ; for him the individual soul has eternal meaning . |
8 | He said it was for him the perfect realization of Sibelius as a passionate but anti-sensual composer . |
9 | For him the critical characteristic of the extended professional is : ‘ a capacity for autonomous professional self-development through systematic self-study , through the study of the work of other teachers and through the testing of ideas by classroom research procedures ’ . |
10 | That 's right : someone rang up and asked for him the other day . |
11 | All his life , MacDonald had fought against a class view of politics and for the primacy of political action as against industrial ; for him the logical corollary was that the party must be prepared , when necessary , to subordinate the sectional claims of the unions to its conception of the national interest . |
12 | I knew that for him The Fat Controller confirmed it — I was his Wolf Man , his Anna O. He told me as much . |
13 | It did not have for him the magnetic feel of the two letters which were folded into his pocket , but it represented the tease of curiosity . |
14 | For him the high spot of the day was listening to the very earnest young man delivering an extremely good set of orders . |
15 | For him the high point of the ceremony was when he stood before the empty but impressive tomb of Cyrus the Great and addressed it grandiloquently in his flat , featureless voice . |
16 | Not for him the glitzy party animal networking of the Beverly Hills A-list . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | C , on the other hand , has to be clear and reasonably accurate ; and for him the historical terminology must be correctly used . |
20 | So for him the public sector has proved useful and at present he is a non-executive director of the Defence Research Agency Council . |
21 | Not for him the blind search for a nipple , no free of the womb' spasms to jerk his limbs ; he was happy to be apart , independent , an entity unto himself . |
22 | Marx was very much concerned with conflict ; indeed for him the driving force of history is based upon conflict between different groups or classes within society . |
23 | He finds Miriam appealing and she holds for him the added attraction of being married and committed herself . |