Example sentences of "[verb] him in his [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Yet still Jacob has him in his grip , and the mysterious assailant begs him to let him go ‘ for the day is breaking ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I found him in his trench enjoying a mug of tea and in deep conversation with a Commando friend of his . |
| 7 | She found him in his kitchen , immersed in the newspaper spread out before him on the table . |
| 8 | Peter found him in his basket canoodling with his other half . |
| 9 | ‘ You found him in his office at shortly after six this morning ? ’ |
| 10 | She found him in his office . |
| 11 | She found him in his office . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | — 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 . |
| 14 | Paradoxically , what had been half-revealed by the Boston Bowl helped him in his exchange . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | His father was a tailor and for some years the young Steen helped him in his business . |
| 17 | It also faced him with the need to untangle a financial crisis , a task that has frequently occupied him in his career . |
| 18 | Richard Needham , it was said , is only interested in appearing to develop the area in so far as it would assist him in his fight against ‘ terrorism ’ . |
| 19 | I pay tribute to the work done by my hon. Friend the Member for Pontefract and Castleford ( Mr. Lofthouse ) in the area and promise that I will assist him in his fight . |
| 20 | There is no certainty either as to where he wrote his main English works : the treatise known as Mixed Life , giving advice to the upmarket man of affairs who also wished to create opportunities to cultivate his inner spiritual life ( one manuscript describes it as " a luitel Boc was writen to a worldli lord to teche him hou he schulde haue him in his state in ordeynd loue to god and to his euencristene " ) , and the two books of The Scale of Perfection . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , he was thankful to God that in all his life he was never overcome by depression , and that , despite his almost continual pain , it never seriously hindered him in his work , his study or his preaching . |
| 22 | I went to visit him in his room at Crazy Joe 's Plantation Village on the north end of Waimea Bay . |
| 23 | Mrs Noble , he said , thought him completely immoral and his own parents were chary of allowing Helen to visit him in his study bedroom at Shelgate Road as she used to do , although , he informed Harry , ‘ Mother knows Helen so well and likes her so much . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Put him in his nest , ’ Alice said . |
| 25 | But she said you put him in his box , and cover it up , he do n't like it ! |
| 26 | cos you know he was that shattered he was falling asleep downstairs before I put him in his cot , so it was a case then of putting him to sleep in his cot |
| 27 | Open the door , three steps forward , turn right , there he is , catch him in his sleep . |
| 28 | Frankie dressed himself , and he looked smarter than I had ever seen him in his check suit , waistcoat and matching cap . |
| 29 | I had always admired him , ever since as a small boy I had seen him in his State robes in India . |
| 30 | In his early forties , with a hawklike profile , he was good-looking enough , yet in a voracious , untrustworthy style that warned people off , and injured him in his business . |