Example sentences of "for him the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the moment he had come to power , Napoleon III had made it plain that for him the problem of Paris was not simply one of creating prosperity for its inhabitants ; rather it was one of transforming and embellishing the city in such a way as to make life better for its inhabitants while simultaneously making it worthy of the new France . |
| 2 | For him the problem was ‘ free fight liberalism ’ . |
| 3 | For him the synthesis was asymptote towards which he was for ever approaching without ever quite reaching it ; it was a reality , incapable of complete realization . |
| 4 | In some senses you know when it happens to a male student , he is not he does n't have confirmed for him the sense that he is only a sexual object and that this is yet more of the way in which he is always perceived . |
| 5 | As he wrote the words , he knew quite well that his grave had been dug for him the day before , once a reprieve had been refused . |
| 6 | I 'd done my crying for him the day they told me he was dead . |
| 7 | Not for him the life of a squire ; not for him rain-swept , windswept Mayo with its barren mountains and bogs . |
| 8 | Not for him the promise of jam tomorrow or a brave , new world waiting just around the next bank overdraft . |
| 9 | For him the tree is therefore a symbol of ontological indeterminacy . |
| 10 | Unfortunately for him the work was being done close to the room where one of the most lively goats lived . |
| 11 | I realise his problem is an addiction , rather like gambling — but for him the thrill is high-risk financial ideas . |
| 12 | That was his happiness , to talk to a captured ear was for him the thrill of seeing the Commandant 's office roofless and destroyed . |
| 13 | She had n't made love with him , but for him the battle had already been won , and she would no longer present a challenge . |
| 14 | For him the issue did not become live until well after the 1959 general election . |
| 15 | For him the girl in the picture ‘ was made to seem perfectly in context as he had never been able to see people before ’ . |
| 16 | With so much media space currently devoted to the heinous depredations the naked ape has inflicted on his habitat , it seems an inappropriate moment to celebrate the career of an artist whose entire work reflects his abiding faith in mankind ; an artist who gloried in presenting humanity dressed up in the paraphernalia of a glamorous performer , or as an honest victim of other men 's rapacity , so as to elicit for him the onlooker 's sympathy . |
| 17 | He got himself up in the morning and dressed in the clothes Emmie had put out for him the night before . |
| 18 | For him the turn from winter to spring is milestoned with our coming , his smiling ‘ Bonjour Hamish ’ is a knife to my heart . |
| 19 | I came to believe that in the S.A.S. he had realised his ideal of chivalry in a contemporary setting ; and that with our marriage and my acceptance of his decision , the two halves of his nature had come together , and for him the enigma of character had been resolved . |
| 20 | It is clear to the right hon. Gentleman that for him the banner of rights and freedoms that he would wave represents a very different set of outcomes from those in which Conservatives believe . |
| 21 | For him the cow epitomises the sub-human world ; it is , by its very existence , a plea for justice on behalf of the animal world . |
| 22 | For him the fight goes on . |
| 23 | In standing out for true sportsmanship on the field Mr Chapman , loyally backed by his players , set a standard which has raised the sport he loved to the highest level , and has won for him the gratitude of sportsmen the world over . ’ |
| 24 | Thus for him the male has a lesser role , simply preparing the matter contributed by the female , so that it is ready to accept the soul . |
| 25 | This was for him the beginning of an independent ‘ second career ’ after leaving the army . |
| 26 | For him the attraction of skyline walking is obvious — once you have made the initial effort to climb the first peak , everything else that follows is usually progressively less strenuous . |
| 27 | and they would also , they , she probably the , the lawyers would also go for a settlement for him the property |
| 28 | Not for him the method of modelling in clay and translating the result into other materials by mechanical means . |
| 29 | For him the criterion of musical phenomena was not mathematics but the ear . |
| 30 | She felt sorry for him once more ; she felt for him the compassion of an older sister , and at that point she did something quite unpremeditated : as she kept on walking , she turned her head back towards him , smiled and lifted her right arm out in the air , easily , flowingly , as if she were tossing a brightly coloured ball . |