Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] him in his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before kiln operator Steve Kelly died at 55 , he asked for help to be given to the team of Macmillan nurses who cared for him in his last months . |
| 2 | He learned English in order to deliver the lectures expected of him in his new post . |
| 3 | There is nothing inconsistent with the Income Tax Acts in recognising and respecting the distinction between property owned by a person as trustee and property owned by him in his own right … |
| 4 | Owen had written to him in his own hand , a fine and scholarly hand . |
| 5 | ( d ) This is the same ground as that which entitles a sheriff to allow an appeal made to him in his administrative capacity . |
| 6 | ‘ I wondered if you also acted for him in his private affairs ? ’ |
| 7 | When he had been given to Uncle Farmborough to be his heir and to look after him in his old age , he was considered fortunate — but how could a child reconcile itself to such a strange state of affairs that he had been given away , to the fact that his own father and mother , brother and sister , lived quite near in the village but , as it were , in a different camp ? |
| 8 | Everyone who raced against him in his good years says roughly the same thing : as a driver , Emerson was enormously consistent , not especially aggressive , very thoughtful and possessed of an excellent racing technique , the source of which was undoubtedly a long apprenticeship spent in motor-cycle racing , karting , Formula Vee , in Renault Gordinis , sports-car racing and so on . |
| 9 | Ever since I ran away from Thornfield , Mr Rochester had remained in my thoughts , and now , as I stood at my cottage door that first evening , looking at the quiet fields , I allowed myself to imagine again the life I could have had with him in his little white house in the south of France . |
| 10 | Haverford Downs , dressed now in a tweed jacket , grey flannels and a white polo-necked sweater , holding an ivory-topped walking-stick in a plump hand on which a single green-stoned ring — alleged by him in his wilder moments to have been worn by Aubrey Beardsley — winked malevolently , gave her his full septuagenarian charm . |
| 11 | One day he would find Corbett exposed and vulnerable and deal with him in his own sophisticated way . |
| 12 | Pilger had already been suggested , but Thornton was unimpressed after coming across him in his Daily Mirror days . |
| 13 | He had liked the way she laughed at him in his old man 's vice . |
| 14 | Between exercises he tried to keep his mind occupied in a number of ways : reciting every poem he could ever remember , pretending to dictate his autobiography to an invisible stenographer so that he could go over everything that had ever happened to him in his twenty-one years . |
| 15 | She greeted the proprietor in her careful Italian and was welcomed by him in his careful English . |
| 16 | I look forward to working with him in his new role . |