Example sentences of "for him [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This afforded the opportunity for him both to become familiar with other music , and to come to grips with concerto movement forms unhampered by the need to create the thematic and harmonic material as well . |
| 2 | Then he said I was too innocent to realise how hard it was for him just to see me for half an hour and a kiss and cuddle . ’ |
| 3 | Similarly , it is not possible for him either to give a hard-and-fast definition of Truth . |
| 4 | It 's a question of political will for him either to encourage arbitration or to make the funds available for a fair settlement . ’ |
| 5 | Hahnemann described her as his best ever student and her deep love for him surely withheld the manuscript to deny his critics the opportunity of judging the 6th edition even more eccentric than the 5th . |
| 6 | The child 's own feelings were split between mortification at a christening that doomed him to live out for good a pun that he could already see to be gruesome and pride that his father had cared for him enough to embed him into his act by the very roots of his name . |
| 7 | But our poetry started to flow again , though now it was he who distributed the favours : there was no call for him now to bribe me with sex , so this aspect of our relationship was something he kept under tight control , allowing sexual contact only when he felt like it and not just when I wanted it , as in the past . |
| 8 | Her love for him now seemed shameful and foolish ; she imagined Marjorie saying to him , ‘ That silly kid 's crazy about you ’ and could almost hear his laughter in her ears . |
| 9 | The battle for him though has been going on for years ai n't it Gordon ? |
| 10 | Tamar 's description , to him and Elizabeth , had been too vivid for him ever to confuse it . |
| 11 | The perception of social advantage in general abstention from collective bargaining is too remote from the circumstances of the individual worker for him ever to support through the ballot box a general prohibition on trade unions , let alone to abstain privately from their immediate protection in a world where there is no reason to expect other workers to confer a reciprocal advantage on him by similar abstention . |
| 12 | Leila did n't have the heart to tell him she doubted whether there 'd be much opportunity for him ever to do that , at least while he was helping her with Ari . |
| 13 | It would of course be completely outside the spirit of our style of proof system for him ever to do this . ) |
| 14 | The personal representative may suffer because it may not be possible for him fully to wind up the estate and to obtain a discharge from his fiduciary responsibilities . |
| 15 | As might have been expected from his career , he outstayed his welcome and had to be forced to retire from the post — a position previously rewarded with a peerage , but which for him only merited a knighthood . |
| 16 | My deep love for him still remains . |
| 17 | We can discount the possibility that Fermat was lying : this was a personal note , for him alone to read . |