Example sentences of "for [pers pn] the [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | If our young girls are to learn the profession , let them serve a seven years apprenticeship and when they have completed it , I ask for them the same wages as are paid for journeymen … |
| 3 | For me the chief attractions of this programme were the two pieces by Hans Gàl , whom I knew towards the end of his long and fecund life ( he died in October 1987 , at the age of 97 ) . |
| 4 | His poem exemplifies for me the many wonders and the brilliant light of the transcendent ; and also the unity of our soul as it basks in the warmth of that light . |
| 5 | So for me the three things were the structured thought patterns plus the arousal and the need for audience contact . |
| 6 | So for me the three points were the Aldershot method er the importance of understanding arousal and the need for audience contact . |
| 7 | New friendships , as much as politics and poetry , transformed for him the final years of school . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Not for him the inane bromides of lesser managers ; outspoken wit and intelligence were the hallmark of his post-match reflections . |
| 11 | Not for him the intricate miracles of Gothic architecture . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Herman Schrijver had Lesley Blanche [ best known for her The Wilder Shores of Love ] and Ivy and me to lunch , and most amusing it was . |
| 14 | Stung by the complete absence of regard for her the insolent words betrayed , Maria rammed her key into the lock with violently shaking fingers , anger stoking and stirring a seething cauldron of other emotions . |