Example sentences of "[verb] him in his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 " . |
| 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 | It was the interest of his parents which sustained him in his early school career . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I did not want to worry him in his last moments , so I did not tell him that Linton was also dying . |
| 7 | Cerberus is nonetheless fallible , for HERCULES managed to overpower him in his Twelfth Labour with his bare hands while Orpheus lulled him to sleep with soft music . |
| 8 | Himmler received him in his private sitting room in the south wing . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Anyway , she 's seen him in his true colours now , she sniffs , and she 's lost interest in him completely . |
| 12 | We do n't see him in his own right . |
| 13 | Experience of the corruption and nepotism of Rome confirmed him in his Anglican allegiance . |
| 14 | Because Vitor had thanked him in his own language , the waiter took them both to be fellow compatriots and proceeded to chatter away in Portuguese , remarking on the sunny weather , suggesting choices of food and wine , complimenting them on Thomas 's cuteness and good behaviour . |
| 15 | The Prior joined him in his small chamber , his sandalled feet beating like a tambour along the stone corridor , his grey gown billowing around him . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He 'd organised this expedition to Westminster to present the Prime Minister with his trusty iceaxe , which had helped him in his arctic endeaveours . |
| 18 | He 'd organised this expedition to Westminster to present the Prime Minister with his trusty iceaxe , which had helped him in his arctic endeaveours . |
| 19 | More and more she was acting like a bitch ; more than once she had to restrain the urge to hit out at him , punch him in his good-looking , smarmy face , especially when she would come upon him in the drawing-room sitting holding her great-gran 's hand , stroking it gently as if it were a cat , and that old woman sitting there and , like a cat , lapping it up . |
| 20 | When he murmured and clung to her all the more , she was tempted to put him in his night-shift and take him straight to bed , but Sunday night was bath night , and he would sleep all the better for it , she thought . |
| 21 | I 'd let my dad down , humiliated him in his own street . |
| 22 | Often he would send for Cranmer in the night to reassure him in his religious doubts and difficulties . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He was afraid to keep him in his own house because the old fellow rants and raves upon occasion and might distress Mrs Browning . |
| 27 | His eye had regained its clarity , and his head its proud poise , as in the days when Norbury had accompanied him in his Prussian crusade with the Teutonic knights , long ago . |
| 28 | Madame had you see known him in his alcoholic days , when indeed such calm must often have been the prelude to him lurching into an argument , or falling heavily from his stool . |
| 29 | William the Conqueror , who was a second cousin to King Edward the Confessor , succeeded as Duke of Normandy in 1035 , and believed that he was entitled to the crown of England , despite the fact that Harold II had fought along side him in his many battles against his great enemy , the King of France . |
| 30 | When Monmouth was executed , Ken was sent for to attend him in his last hours . |