Example sentences of "[vb past] 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 | Himmler received him in his private sitting room in the south wing . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Experience of the corruption and nepotism of Rome confirmed him in his Anglican allegiance . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I 'd let my dad down , humiliated him in his own street . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I never saw him in his blood-stained overalls , but I always imagined him thus in my mind . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ I put him in his early fifties , ’ said the Archdeacon judiciously . |
| 17 | Although he denied it , at the time he fled to Damascus where the Syrians — never slow to take advantage of those in need — offered him protection and later supported him in his successful candidacy for the presidency of Lebanon in 1970 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | When he told him he would be arrested for being drunk , Sweeney butted him in his left eye and brought his knee up to his groin . |
| 20 | The German saw him at once , walked over , shook hands , greeted him in his own language . |
| 21 | For much of the last couple of decades , he has been living in France , where he is accorded a reverence denied him in his native country . |
| 22 | 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 . |