Example sentences of "for him [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Listening to the conversation in which Midnight had no part , she felt a sudden pity for him which increased the sense of gratitude already there , and was slightly surprised when the foppish Randall asked him a direct question : |
| 2 | For him she begged the gift of immortality from her fellow gods , but neglected to specify eternal youth as well . |
| 3 | For him it became a kind of holy bird : he would handle it with deep respect , and spent hours in rapt contemplation of it . |
| 4 | For him it meant a brief wait until he was of the appropriate age of 21 , in December 1807 ; barely a month later he was off to Doctors ' Commons in St Paul 's Churchyard to sign an allegation ‘ … that he is of the Parish of All Hallows , Barking , London , a bachelor … ’ and ‘ … that there is no lawful impediment … ’ before being issued with a licence by the Archbishop of Canterbury 's Faculty Office . |
| 5 | For him it means a coalition government , with his party as the junior partner , which immediately introduces legislation for proportional representation , and gives him a job in the Cabinet . |
| 6 | For him it held a special appeal ; the one day of the week he could break bread with his family and not have to feel that they were only loaned to him for the while — his son Joshua had no business to go to , his grandson Jacob no college lectures . |
| 7 | Adorno , we have seen , acknowledges this specificity — indeed , for him it explains the ( unfulfilled ) potential of jazz and the hangovers of ‘ real ’ creativity in some Tin Pan Alley songs ; but he subsumes it into a theory of ‘ false individualization ’ , designed , in his view , to disguise mass cultural production as ‘ art ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ When I auditioned for him I made a great impression — or so I was told . |
| 9 | Phil Gelderd praised the list in glowing terms before going to his first Leeds game for years — sadly for him he picked the recent one against Norwich . |