Example sentences of "[verb] him in his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Mary de Rachewiltz , Ezra Pound 's daughter , visited him in his gloomy study in Carlyle Mansions she wrote , " I had met a great man , and Loneliness " and one friend has remarked that " I knew he was intensely — even wretchedly — lonely " . |
| 2 | Anthony Honoré , retiring Oxford Regius Professor of Civil Law , had just been canvassed by the appointments secretary when I visited him in his panelled rooms at All Souls . |
| 3 | I was so affected by his discovery that I pursued his future career with the Museum Service and later visited him in his cardboard box . |
| 4 | It was the interest of his parents which sustained him in his early school career . |
| 5 | It gives Boles his " She helped him in his cruel games " and the Borough its " Speak out in the name of the Lord " , one of those superb unison ejaculations which will always send shivers down the spine of anyone who hates and fears mob agreement on any subject whatever . |
| 6 | I did not want to worry him in his last moments , so I did not tell him that Linton was also dying . |
| 7 | Himmler received him in his private sitting room in the south wing . |
| 8 | She imagined him in his racing days driving at incredible speed towards some treacherous bend with just that same ice-cold look of control on his face . |
| 9 | We were told that a recurrent illness had made him in his earlier days an abrasive and difficult colleague but when we knew him , the right pill had been found and the former angrily flashing eye and rasping voice of which people spoke had mellowed to a genial twinkle and an infectious chuckle . |
| 10 | Anyway , she 's seen him in his true colours now , she sniffs , and she 's lost interest in him completely . |
| 11 | We do n't see him in his own right . |
| 12 | Experience of the corruption and nepotism of Rome confirmed him in his Anglican allegiance . |
| 13 | Because Vitor had thanked him in his own language , the waiter took them both to be fellow compatriots and proceeded to chatter away in Portuguese , remarking on the sunny weather , suggesting choices of food and wine , complimenting them on Thomas 's cuteness and good behaviour . |
| 14 | The Prior joined him in his small chamber , his sandalled feet beating like a tambour along the stone corridor , his grey gown billowing around him . |
| 15 | Inevitably his mother nursed and protected him in his early years , and this was the basis of a deep , perhaps inordinately and unhealthily deep , attachment of son to mother . |
| 16 | He 'd organised this expedition to Westminster to present the Prime Minister with his trusty iceaxe , which had helped him in his arctic endeaveours . |
| 17 | He 'd organised this expedition to Westminster to present the Prime Minister with his trusty iceaxe , which had helped him in his arctic endeaveours . |
| 18 | I 'd let my dad down , humiliated him in his own street . |
| 19 | Often he would send for Cranmer in the night to reassure him in his religious doubts and difficulties . |
| 20 | I was debating whether to try to stop the bleeding first or to leave him in his uncertain state while I found a way out , trusting he would n't totally pass out , when I heard the main door creak open directly above our heads ; the way Harry and I had come in . |
| 21 | If there ever was a body , Henry Hippisley took the secret to his grave — oblivious of the rumour and revilement that surrounded him in his final years — and fortunately for him , died of natural causes . |
| 22 | He was afraid to keep him in his own house because the old fellow rants and raves upon occasion and might distress Mrs Browning . |
| 23 | His eye had regained its clarity , and his head its proud poise , as in the days when Norbury had accompanied him in his Prussian crusade with the Teutonic knights , long ago . |
| 24 | Madame had you see known him in his alcoholic days , when indeed such calm must often have been the prelude to him lurching into an argument , or falling heavily from his stool . |
| 25 | William the Conqueror , who was a second cousin to King Edward the Confessor , succeeded as Duke of Normandy in 1035 , and believed that he was entitled to the crown of England , despite the fact that Harold II had fought along side him in his many battles against his great enemy , the King of France . |
| 26 | When Monmouth was executed , Ken was sent for to attend him in his last hours . |
| 27 | Dury , however , is a theatrical voice to be taken rather more seriously , as I discovered when I met him in his current lodgings , adjacent to the Swan Theatre . |
| 28 | Now he stared from the partly eaten jam sandwich to the homely face of his grandmother and wondered if she would dare to murder him in his own home with Buddie sitting right there at the same table . |
| 29 | I never saw him in his blood-stained overalls , but I always imagined him thus in my mind . |
| 30 | She could n't just ignore him in his own house and she had the nasty feeling that she would not have been able to ignore him anywhere . |