Example sentences of "[verb] him in his " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you had a chance to meet him in his house with his guests , he was a most charming and intelligent man . |
| 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 | 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 " . |
| 5 | Dr Neil , cradling him in his arms for a moment before handing him to McAllister to care for , wondered not for the first time on such occasions whether he had done the baby a favour by enabling him to live . |
| 6 | So , of course , he got up , I went to close the door he was there so I tried him in his pushchair , I says well you 'll have to walk , I know it 's only five minutes away . |
| 7 | Two years later he bought my mother a new car and at just the same time I caught him in his office with his secretary . ’ |
| 8 | Yet still Jacob has him in his grip , and the mysterious assailant begs him to let him go ‘ for the day is breaking ’ . |
| 9 | In the early 1930s , from his city desk at Faber and Faber , Eliot was busy paying tribute to other cities which had educated him in his way of life and to city writers who had aided his way of writing . |
| 10 | I found him in his trench enjoying a mug of tea and in deep conversation with a Commando friend of his . |
| 11 | She found him in his kitchen , immersed in the newspaper spread out before him on the table . |
| 12 | Peter found him in his basket canoodling with his other half . |
| 13 | ‘ You found him in his office at shortly after six this morning ? ’ |
| 14 | She found him in his office . |
| 15 | She found him in his office . |
| 16 | His thoughts were running north and west , up into Lochaber , the oakwoods and pinewoods at the foot of Loch Arkaig which had cradled him in his boyhood . |
| 17 | It was the interest of his parents which sustained him in his early school career . |
| 18 | Beck had a miserable round in The Players Championship last week but he confessed it helped him in his charging 65 , one off the course record . |
| 19 | Despite financial difficulties , however , Hahnemann displayed such intellectual ability that his teachers helped him in his studies and allowed him to finance his education by tutoring the younger children in the school . |
| 20 | Paradoxically , what had been half-revealed by the Boston Bowl helped him in his exchange . |
| 21 | His father was a tailor and for some years the young Steen helped him in his business . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | — Like Mrs Plews , Mr Jim Tomlinson , of Richmond , found the study helped him in his work as a teacher at Risedale School , Hipswell , Catterick Garrison . |
| 24 | The sharp hiss of an angry breath drawn through clenched teeth stopped him in his tracks . |
| 25 | Thoughts of butchers ' knives and bloodied axes galvanized the boy into frantic action , but he had no sooner broken into a sprint along the alley than the sound of his own footsteps stopped him in his tracks . |
| 26 | The turn of a key in the lock of the brown door stopped him in his tracks . |
| 27 | A bad drive down the 10th , from which he was lucky to make five , stopped him in his tracks while his double-bogey five at the 12th was the last straw . |
| 28 | David took a step forward , stretching out his hand as though he might touch the old man , but a hard forbidding glare stopped him in his tracks . |
| 29 | And the sight of Charlotte , staring down at him , stopped him in his tracks . |
| 30 | He was about to put his trousers back and take out another pair , when a sudden thought stopped him in his tracks . |