Example sentences of "for him the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 New friendships , as much as politics and poetry , transformed for him the final years of school .
2 In Lawrence 's Women in Love , completed in 1916 , Birkin contemplates the purchase of a ‘ clear , beautiful chair ’ which expresses for him the living thoughts of ‘ England , even Jane Austen 's England ’ , before these were destroyed by ‘ sordid and foul mechanicalness ’ .
3 Not for him the cynical moralities of Pauson , who presented humanity worse than it is , or the fidelity of the painter Dionysus to observable particularity : he was beauty 's slave , and beauty is made , he knew , not found .
4 Not for him the inane bromides of lesser managers ; outspoken wit and intelligence were the hallmark of his post-match reflections .
5 Not for him the intricate miracles of Gothic architecture .
6 His doctor constantly suggested to him the benefits of sun and sea air ( not that he needed any encouragement to visit the sea , since it still evoked for him the happiest memories ) , and in July they travelled , with Eliot 's sister who had come from America , to the Isle of Wight for two weeks .
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