Example sentences of "for he " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | For him , critical writing has to take up wider issues than enjoyment of a picture or a sculpture . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The young Berenson was a polymath , whose brilliant career at Harvard led his friends to pay for him to visit Europe to continue his studies . |
| 4 | I have very unpleasant recollections of sitting for him , for it was of utmost importance not to move but to fix him right in the eye and listen to him complain , saying as he always did that he was getting nowhere . |
| 5 | Enthusiasts for explanation , however , might want to explain that this ‘ darkness visible ’ tends to obscure and diminish what deserves to be understood , and that , for him , there are important countries and unimportant countries , and that the coups and riots of the latter are severely diminishable . |
| 6 | When friendships finally became possible for him they were with children of the lower orders . |
| 7 | In the literature of duality it is the outcast or victim who has dealings with a double , and in the second of the two novels Charles Wychwood is an outcast whose condition copies that of Thomas Chatterton , who committed suicide in 1770 at the age of 17 , having invented a medieval monk , Rowley , and written poems for him . |
| 8 | Such poems ‘ need not be stimulated by real-life events ’ such as the plight of the Marseilles dock-workers , which has effaced the sight — darkly limned in Jaromil 's juvenilia — of Magda in her bath ; and if the poet who displays his ignorant , indifferent self-portrait is hoping for applause , there is a chance for him to do well in the new world of revolution , which rings with applause , and with blame . |
| 9 | It will be difficult for him to be baleful about the Millennium . |
| 10 | He had left her and gone to live with an upper-class woman , had soared to the opposite end of the scale from Josie , whose attraction for him had been that of a splenetic victim from the lower depths of the goyim : but Josie had refused a divorce and the ordeal had dragged on . |
| 11 | But when he does resume them , when the time comes for him to make his next leap , the suggestions made in the course of this affair of his fiction fatigue and literal turn — suggestions which receive both rebuttal and support from within the shape-changing dialectic represented by The Counterlife — will not deserve to be forgotten . |
| 12 | Whether or not she has talked to God , she has certainly been reviewing for him . |
| 13 | Her virtue is so important to her that she can more easily contemplate her brother sacrificing his life to save her virginity than that she might sacrifice herself for him . |
| 14 | She does have affection for him but is not over-impressed with his success as a writer and she speaks directly from her own experience rather than any vicarious sensations . |
| 15 | When I did Nurse Ratchett in One Flew Over The Cuckoo 's Nest up in Manchester I read the novel and found a speech in the book that was really wonderful on the character and I asked the director if I could read it for him . |
| 16 | C'm on you , he said , and held the door open for him . |
| 17 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 18 | There can be no summation for him because there is nothing there to sum up . |
| 19 | For him Stockhausen a child , Boulez a tyrant , Berio an entertainer . |
| 20 | No , he wrote , because Diana herself does not acknowledge either that she has been waiting all her life for him to appear . |
| 21 | For him , wrote Harsnet , there is only the endless metamorphosis of narrative , no end except for the non-end of his death . |
| 22 | Told him there would also be something specifically for him when it was done . |
| 23 | I held the door open for him . |
| 24 | In place of the modest flannel bags Lord Woodleigh had on , this fellow had a pair of white trousers , much too short for him , stained heavily on one side and showing beneath a pair of socks in a hideous approximation to a Scottish tartan . |
| 25 | But , you know , there may be many other reasons why it is important for him to get to the top so quickly . |
| 26 | ‘ It would have been possible for him , I think . |
| 27 | Why , even Peggy herself had been one of his targets — until he realized there was no chance for him there . |
| 28 | Mr Eames was just getting up , convinced that juniors and upstarts were usurping the stage and it was time for him to be where the action was , when he was interrupted by the bell . |
| 29 | Not that I 've any time for him any longer — going on like that when his poor wife was near her time . ’ |
| 30 | Arthur said he 'd never had their second message , and the fuss all died down , but he 's always come when we 've sent for him . ’ |