Example sentences of "for he is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There should be others , however , men of repute in the Khanate , to support him , for he is not of our world . ’ |
| 2 | Even if he had known , he might have proceeded , for he is not concerned with the lack of authorisation . |
| 3 | Mr Furbank is well-suited to the task , for he is best known as the biographer of E. M. Forster , and there was some similarity between the luminaries of Bloomsbury and the philosophes of the Enlightenment Salons . |
| 4 | The visitor of the last stanza comes ‘ more violent , more profound , / One soul , disdainful or disdained , ’ and in the condition of the year-spirit or , ‘ his shadowed beauty stained / The colour of the withered year ’ , to go to a death which places him in the position of savage sacrifice and , for he is surely related to the saints of Eliot 's other early poems , martyr ‘ Self-immolating on the Mound ’ . |
| 5 | Our questions ranged far and wide and his courtesy and patience turned them into an intriguing trail of discovery which was endlessly fascinating and richly rewarding , for he is also a natural raconteur . |
| 6 | The problem is availability , for he is also a talented musician and had to miss a match to fulfil an earlier musical commitment . |
| 7 | Locke 's description of a person as ‘ a thinking , intelligent being ’ does not mean that the continuity of self-consciousness which constitutes personal identity is the continuity of some immaterial substance , a soul , mind , or spirit , which is self-conscious , for he is clearly unhappy with a Cartesian view of this sort . |
| 8 | If A tells his grown-up son , B , that he will stop B's allowance if B marries C , A may succeed , as is no doubt his intention , in depriving C of a profitable marriage , but he commits no tort against her , for he is perfectly entitled to stop B's allowance for any reason . |
| 9 | I think it will succeed although it will take ages , for he is fearfully shy , and I am likewise affected . |
| 10 | For he is suddenly , miraculously , aware that he has got a wonderful — no ! — a perfect alibi ; an alibi which has been given to him by the very person he has just killed . |
| 11 | This was mainly due to his enormous leaps , wasting time in the air , for he is extremely fresh , having had only one outing since December . |
| 12 | Kirwan and Timu look good on the wings , while Tuigamala is only fair for he is very large and by no means consistent . |
| 13 | For that matter , Odysseus himself might have borrowed a trick or two from the rabbit hero , for he is very old and was never at a loss for a trick to deceive his enemies . |
| 14 | The evidence that parental education does play an important role in determining the demand for HE is very strong and there remains a clear need to quantify these effects in conjunction with social class . |
| 15 | As to honest Partridge , he meant no wrong , for he is so bold a mountaineer , he can go anywhere that a sheep can ; and I dare say thinks every person can do the same . ’ |
| 16 | All gods made their boast in him , in order to magnify themselves with his beauty , for he is so divine … |
| 17 | For he is out nearly all the time . |
| 18 | Of course Herman loves her whisperings — for he is always convinced that he will catch a word or two — but all he has ever heard was when she was going from the dining-room to the drawing-room after lunch with him , and she whispered : ‘ I hate sauces . |
| 19 | He seems to be genuinely fond of our family — my younger brother and sister and myself — for he is forever giving us presents , very expensive presents , too , and it seemed churlish to refuse his invitation . |