Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] him in his [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So I can go upstairs and put him in his rocking chair . |