Example sentences of "for him the [adj] " 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 | New friendships , as much as politics and poetry , transformed for him the final years of school . |
| 3 | Not for him the good old days of the 1960s , when the Mirror — social conscience and all — reigned supreme and Pilger was churning out his hard-hitting reports . |
| 4 | For him the Dutch Texel is the original Texel ; it comes from the island of Texel and has been bred there for many generations . |
| 5 | The reader will not , however , begrudge the author 's serendipity which , especially at election time , succeeded in extracting for him the following from Smollett 's Humphrey Clinker ( 1771 ) : I know nothing so abject as the behaviour of a man canvassing for a seat in Parliament . |
| 6 | 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. ) |
| 7 | Modigliani declined as politely but suggested to Lunia that she should come to his studio and pose for him the following day . |
| 8 | But Jim insisted , insisted that I bought him a pint and asked me to caddie for him the following week at St Anne 's . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I had to accept the fact that he was an individualist , and that for him the only tolerable war was one in which he felt he was making some personal contribution — personal , but never ‘ glory-seeking ’ , as he had made clear in 1940 , not least by being prepared to postpone obtaining his commission . |
| 11 | His idea of the " popular play " is important , since his devotion to the music hall and his belief that the poet can only be socially useful in the theatre spurred him on to achieve what was for him the unachievable : the plays bear all the marks of their deliberate and laborious composition . |
| 12 | For him the small , ancient Saxon church of Clayton , nestling at the foot of the Sussex Downs . |
| 13 | could not have been happier , both personally and in creating an atmosphere conducive to his work … the domestic ideal that is evident in his writings ( the family being his favourite subject of study and lecturing ) was most clearly represented by his own home life … his wife created for him the respectable and quiet familial existence which he considered the best guarantee of morality and of life . |
| 14 | In a way he sees the eternal and translates into human words the wonder of existence ; for him the individual soul has eternal meaning . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | Only marriage has for him the required social connotations , expressing the kind of personal and social commitment mentioned earlier . |
| 17 | He said it was for him the perfect realization of Sibelius as a passionate but anti-sensual composer . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | That 's right : someone rang up and asked for him the other day . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Not for him the limited intellectual life of some academics , who spend their careers developing minor lines of enquiry from their doctoral theses and seldom move far from the safety of their chosen subject . |
| 23 | I knew that for him The Fat Controller confirmed it — I was his Wolf Man , his Anna O. He told me as much . |
| 24 | That 's er eight in seven games for him the last seven . |
| 25 | Not for him the inane bromides of lesser managers ; outspoken wit and intelligence were the hallmark of his post-match reflections . |
| 26 | Adorno 's refusal to read such class references into twentieth-century popular music is , of course , the result of his obsession with the category of the individual producer-subject ; as we have seen , for him the shocking , the new , the unassimilated can be mediated only by alienated individuality . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Eliot seems to have ignored these suggestions because for him the physical and social landscape of London was no more than a screen on which to project a phantasmagoria that expressed his own personal disorders and desperations ( partly sexual , as one might expect , and as the drafts make clear ) ; whereas Pound seems to have supposed that the subject of the poem was London in all its historical and geographical actuality , much as the city of Dublin was from one point of view the subject of Joyce 's Ulysses . |
| 29 | So for him the next test — whose result he was awaiting — would be crucial . |
| 30 | He then ordered a car to call for him the next morning for a similar occasion and was felled by a stroke while waiting for the lift . |