Example sentences of "[verb] him in his [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was the interest of his parents which sustained him in his early school career . |
| 4 | Himmler received him in his private sitting room in the south wing . |
| 5 | We do n't see him in his own right . |
| 6 | Experience of the corruption and nepotism of Rome confirmed him in his Anglican allegiance . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I 'd let my dad down , humiliated him in his own street . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He was afraid to keep him in his own house because the old fellow rants and raves upon occasion and might distress Mrs Browning . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Carol had told him before he went home , so Bissett knew what to look for — Carol was the conduit of all the gossip for H3 — and it put him in his best humour of the day . |
| 16 | Although he denied it , at the time he fled to Damascus where the Syrians — never slow to take advantage of those in need — offered him protection and later supported him in his successful candidacy for the presidency of Lebanon in 1970 . |
| 17 | So I can go upstairs and put him in his rocking chair . |
| 18 | While is possible that Ryde have signed him in his other capacity as Saviour of the World , the official reason is that regular ‘ keeper Ian Lloyd is having trials with York City . |
| 19 | Joshua Cohen had long ago recognised that Jacob would never make a businessman and had quickly abandoned his dream of having his son join him in his scrap-iron store . |
| 20 | Michael O'Neil knows what the score is now better than any of us here , and if I know Michael , he 'll be arguing with St Peter at the gate and be telling him in his best Superintendent manner that celestial security is not what it was - if they let people like him in ! ’ |
| 21 | When he told him he would be arrested for being drunk , Sweeney butted him in his left eye and brought his knee up to his groin . |
| 22 | The German saw him at once , walked over , shook hands , greeted him in his own language . |
| 23 | For much of the last couple of decades , he has been living in France , where he is accorded a reverence denied him in his native country . |
| 24 | She was more than halfway through the set before she managed to screw up enough courage to glance down at Adam 's table , and her heart turned to cold stone as she spotted him in his usual seat , his dark eyes staring at her with their disturbing lack of expression . |
| 25 | He faces the prospect of retirement with the same level-headed commonsense approach with which he has tackled most of the issues that have confronted him in his long career . |
| 26 | It is hoped that this instrument will help him in his new parish of Our Lady of Lourdes in Leasowe to enrich further the lives of the people at home with all kinds of music . |