Example sentences of "not for him the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Not for him the boulevards of Hollywood , nor the slender , sultry looks of Renaissance Screen Man .
2 Not for him the boulevards of Hollywood , nor the slender , sultry looks of Renaissance Screen Man .
3 Not for him the life of a squire ; not for him rain-swept , windswept Mayo with its barren mountains and bogs .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Not for him the promise of jam tomorrow or a brave , new world waiting just around the next bank overdraft .
7 Not for him the elevation and security of Wordsworth 's appointment as His Majesty 's Distributor of Stamps for the County of Westmorland .
8 Not for him the pleasures or the relief of omnipotence !
9 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 .
10 Not for him the histrionics which always seemed to accompany a Mansell win last year .
11 Not for him the path of apprenticeship followed by his two younger brothers — at least , not quite .
12 Not for him the emancipation and the exultation and the divinity of creative work !
13 Not for him the method of modelling in clay and translating the result into other materials by mechanical means .
14 Not for him the acrobatics that fiction attributes to the American rich .
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