Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] he in [pron] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 He seemed far away from Ruth , in a trance whose nature she could only guess at — but free , she thought , of the despair and anger that beset him in their own world .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Anpetuwi , where he had come with his hurt and confusion , and Anpetuwi , which had not disappointed him , taking him and holding him in its gentle heart as a mother held a child .
6 Chronicles and records suggest that he exercised a general supervision over all Lancaster 's affairs : directing his estate officials , receiving dubiously acquired lands to which the earl wished to bar legal claims , acting as Lancaster 's intermediary with the king , and supporting him in his political and military ventures .
7 She came and kissed him in her brisk way .
8 But she twisted round and took him in her dusty hands , he felt the blood pump past her fingers .
9 So I can go upstairs and put him in his rocking chair .
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