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Example sentences for "for him"

  • It was true that the old man had carried out his instructions relative to the placing of the machine guns; but they might be used as well against him, where they stood, as for him.

  • At the same instant there came a sudden commotion from the interior of the room in the window of which Barney still stood waiting for Joseph to remove the rope from about the princess and lower it for him.

  • They were pleasant visions, made doubly alluring by the thought that the realities of them might never again be for him.

  • The horses had been brought out and Langham and MacWilliams were waiting for him to mount.

  • He lived as earnestly and toiled as indefatigably as before, but the place was utterly transformed for him.

  • There is nothing you can do for him now; you cannot give your life for him.

  • They had gone but a few blocks when a livery stable sign in one of the side streets solved the difficulty for him.

  • As for him, the marriage clause did not dwell in his mind.

  • It was a great shaking up for him, both mental and moral.

  • That worthy had his future fixed for him beyond a peradventure.

  • The progress of the play did not improve matters for him.

  • No need to remind me again that Thorolf was the foremost instigator to the killing of him.

  • For him "there is no good, there is no bad; these be the whims of mortal will.

  • For him all, all is clay--even the laughter of childhood is a cunning mechanism, and the Uranian Venus but a lump of animated earth.

  • There was but one general law, for him, and that was that it was right to deceive, if force were of dubious effect, in affairs of State.

  • The unequality of life exists and "that settles it" for him.

  • For him there is no Fount of Castaly whose sweet waters make men mad.

  • There was in it a bed of cloth-of-gold, enriched with pearls, intermixed with rubies and emeralds: for by this time there appeared daylight sufficient for him to view and admire the magnificence of this sumptuous furniture.

  • The country went into deep mourning for him, and then forgot him, and his uncle reigned in his stead.

  • And, though he did not know it, there would be for him no mother's kiss any more.

  • The man did believe she cared for him, and he had been trying to teach her--to save her.

  • Meanwhile there was always, of course, for him, his painting.

  • She has neither eyes nor ears for him, only for baby.

  • Painfully conscious as she was that she did care for him, it was easy to fear that others must be conscious of it, too.

  • He was resourceful; but in the circumstances what resources were there for him to draw upon?

  • A man in an evening suit many sizes too large for him sang in a strong, not disagreeable tenor a German song that drew loud applause at the end of each stanza.

  • When she left him before, she had gone sustained by the feeling that she was doing it for him, was doing a duty.

  • The better a man is as a workman, and the nicer he is as a man, the harder it is for him to get up.

  • I should be ashamed to say that I loved a man who must always be hanging on others, and reckoning on what they would do for him.

  • But, one vacation, a wet day sent him to the small home library to hunt once more for a book which might have some freshness for him: in vain!

  • He remembered everything she had ever done for him: how frightened she had been when he tore his hand in the corn-sheller, and how she wouldn't let Olaf scold him.

  • And of course I played the intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana for him; it goes rather better on an organ than most things do.

  • You've probably met my brother, Adriance; people often mistake me for him.

  • He was sure he could hear it, for the wind was exactly right for him to hear a whistle from his house.

  • What a dreadful thing," whispered Miss Burroughs, leaning forward, "for him to stop so near the house!

  • Any time during flood-tide would do for him, and he had some business that he wanted to attend to as soon as possible.

  • It had been foolish, perhaps, for him to go up to the store at such a time as this, but the mischief had been done.

  • On leaving the council the prince was conducted to a splendid house which had been prepared for him, where he found a full establishment and well-filled stables at his orders.

  • Can you possibly understand what the Sultan saw in that little cat," said one to the other, "for him to be so fascinated by her?

  • As for him, believing me to be dead it was no wonder that he had not recognised me.

  • Well, in eighteen months there was an end.

  • Her heart melted in hot pain when the moment came for him to thrust her forward again.

  • It stood in front of the morning, that thought, killing all joy and even life, for him.

  • She felt she could bear anything for him; she would suffer for him.

  • Holy Mother Maria Theresa--glorified and celestial saint, I have the honour of drinking to your health," and the man in black drank.

  • What surprised me most in connection with this individual was, the delicacy of conduct which he exhibited in not letting a word proceed from his lips which could testify curiosity respecting who I was, or whence I came.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "for him" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    for example; for his hard heart; for that; for the; for the first time; for then; force equal; force pump; fore long; foreign corn; foreign intercourse; foreign missionary; foreign port; foreign princes; foreign troops; forget the; form column; form part; formal logic; former journey; former state; former work; formerly known; forming drugs; forty dollars; out there