Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] him in his [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
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 put him in his early fifties , ’ said the Archdeacon judiciously . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |