Example sentences of "for he it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Belov had studied her and contrived her release … and for him it had ended with his body face-down in the icy waters of the Neva . |
| 2 | Could they only stand it because it was for a short unreal interval , whereas for him it was the real bit of his life , this little pocket of otherness , of ‘ unreality ’ , but for him it had been central , the power house , the full granary , the fulcrum . |
| 3 | For her , their lovemaking might have been an almost mystical fusing of bodies and identities , yet for him it had been no more than a roll in the hay . |
| 4 | It was a fabled street , but for him it had been forbidden territory . |
| 5 | For him it became a kind of holy bird : he would handle it with deep respect , and spent hours in rapt contemplation of it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The government , especially in the person of the Foreign Secretary , Ernest Bevin , feared communism in Europe as much as the Americans : the difference was that for him it meant keeping Europe firmly at arm 's length [ Bullock , 1983 ] . |
| 8 | For him it becomes so self-evident where true fulfilment lies that those who are content to rest in the basic reformation in faith appear ludicrous . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The bare infinitive , in contrast , represents its event as an object of co-operation between the helper and the helpee : even though this close co-operation does not always involve the helper actually doing part of the helpee 's activity for him it seems to imply a view of the helper as instrumental in the realization of the infinitive 's event . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |