Example sentences of "not for him [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Not for him a trip to the cinema , or a visit to the local zoo . |
2 | Not for him the boulevards of Hollywood , nor the slender , sultry looks of Renaissance Screen Man . |
3 | Not for him the boulevards of Hollywood , nor the slender , sultry looks of Renaissance Screen Man . |
4 | Not for him the life of a squire ; not for him rain-swept , windswept Mayo with its barren mountains and bogs . |
5 | Not for him the satellites , computers and massive back-up team the Michael Fishes , Suzanne Charltons and Alex Hills of TV depend upon for their forecasts . |
6 | Not for him the Baden-Powell approach of rubbing two Boy Scouts together ; he liberally douses the twigs with paraffin and throws in a match . |
7 | Not for him the promise of jam tomorrow or a brave , new world waiting just around the next bank overdraft . |
8 | Not for him the elevation and security of Wordsworth 's appointment as His Majesty 's Distributor of Stamps for the County of Westmorland . |
9 | Not for him the pleasures or the relief of omnipotence ! |
10 | Not for him the privations of the secret outdoor life ; he stalked the rich carpets of the Ainsworth home like a king and the ornate collar he always wore added something more to his presence . |
11 | Not for him the histrionics which always seemed to accompany a Mansell win last year . |
12 | Not for him the path of apprenticeship followed by his two younger brothers — at least , not quite . |
13 | Not for him the emancipation and the exultation and the divinity of creative work ! |
14 | Not for him the method of modelling in clay and translating the result into other materials by mechanical means . |
15 | Not for him the acrobatics that fiction attributes to the American rich . |