Example sentences of "[verb] him in his early " in BNC.

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1 It was the interest of his parents which sustained him in his early school career .
2 We were told that a recurrent illness had made him in his earlier days an abrasive and difficult colleague but when we knew him , the right pill had been found and the former angrily flashing eye and rasping voice of which people spoke had mellowed to a genial twinkle and an infectious chuckle .
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 ‘ I put him in his early fifties , ’ said the Archdeacon judiciously .
5 He was in his thirties , I would put him in his early thirties , yeah , I 'd say he was younger than me .
6 I had a long talk once with the very bright lady who accompanied him in his early days , a lady of charm and accomplishment and infinitely more mature than Niki was .
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