Example sentences of "[to-vb] him in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WG is alleging that Alan Carr , who remained as Alkar 's chairman , overstated Alkar 's profits by anticipating payments and inflating stock , causing WG to overpay him in subsequent acquisition instalments . |
| 2 | I was to meet him in later years , but I am sure that the reaction in the chapel of all those within earshot , and particularly of the School Chaplain himself , exactly mirrored ‘ The Guardsman who dropped his rifle on parade ’ and the man who lit his cigar before the Royal toast together with his great friend who ordered a double Scotch in the grand pump-room at Bath . |
| 3 | Van Der Meulen 's austere but charming character was to stand him in good stead with the Saudis . |
| 4 | But the lessons he learned from those formative years were to stand him in good stead later on when he was to understand what it meant to be a director from first-hand experience . |
| 5 | Edward had not yet covered himself with military glory , but he had revealed a sureness of political judgement which was to stand him in good stead in the greater military endeavours that he embarked upon in 1337 . |
| 6 | Charles V , showing that good judgement of men which was to stand him in good stead throughout his reign , chose Bertrand du Guesclin to command his forces , and du Guesclin defeated Navarre at the battle of Cocherel in May 1364 . |
| 7 | It had done him no good , but the same quality was to stand him in good stead when he turned away from international relations to the many domestic difficulties which the war had engendered or highlighted . |
| 8 | She wanted to kiss him , to soften him , to diminish him in some way so that she felt safer , more human . |
| 9 | They had to walk right past the tramp to enter the church and they made absolutely no attempt to help him in any way . |
| 10 | But perhaps because she was thus secretly rejecting him and yet knew at the same time that he was in love with her , a sense of justice prompted her to help him in amorous efforts , to support him , to rid him of childish embarrassment . |
| 11 | One girl wanted to cover him in whipped cream and honey and then slowly lick off every bit . |
| 12 | The kung fu practitioner uses his opponent 's strength to aid him in this task . |
| 13 | Only with incredible luck , against all the odds , could he reasonably hope to make a safe exit from Russian soil and reach safe ground from which the Americans might be able to extricate him in one piece . |
| 14 | This was an attitude which , long afterwards , was to put him in second place to Phan Boi Chau in the opinion of the Communist Party which , although stressing the patriotism of both men , especially Phan Boi Chau , declared that Phan Chu Trinh had mistaken the principal enemy . |
| 15 | You pay a forfeit to put him in that race . |
| 16 | Gary became aware of YWAM as an organisation and that God might be able to use him in that organisation . |
| 17 | The lovely Polish mezzo Stefania Toczyska , who had three arias of her own , as well as joining Carreras in duets from Cavalleria Rusticana , Il Trovatore and Carmen , was also permitted a single encore before she quietly disappeared to leave him in sole charge . |
| 18 | But it certainly suited the dominant landed gentry to interpret him in that way . |
| 19 | It 's a it 's a very bold thing of Toby Baldwin to run him in this race it seems to me , you know I mean he definitely appeared to not like . |
| 20 | She got up early to muck him out and groom him and exercise him , and she babysat nearly every evening to keep him in good oats ( not Uncle Knacker 's ) and shoes , and when she saw the riders she was up against in the collecting ring , with their adoring parents and their fat cheque-books , it just made her all the more determined to beat them , because determination was all she had . |
| 21 | Kant thinks , for example , that one who breaks a promise , because it is going to land him in personal difficulties to keep it , can not will that everyone would break their promises in these circumstances , for the situation in which no one kept promises which it turned out in the least difficult or vexatious to keep is an impossibility . |
| 22 | At least , I am sure he has enough to recommend him , should — should any female be inclined to consider him in that light . ’ |
| 23 | She did n't want to think about Timothy Gedge , to dwell on him or to consider him in any way whatsoever . |
| 24 | Among the writers who influenced Smith were the Lancashire dialect poet Edwin Waugh , whose poems he liked to read aloud , and Samuel Smiles [ qq.v. ] , who may have been the first man to interest him in technical education . |
| 25 | And we 've got to include him in some crime as soon as we can . |
| 26 | My heart , to love him ; my will , to do his will , my mind , to glorify him ; my tongue , to speak to him and of him ; my eyes to see him in all things ; my hands to bring whatever they touch to him ; my all only to be a real ‘ all ’ : because it is joined to him . |
| 27 | It was amusing for Charles to see him in this state , his usual poise unbalanced by childlike curiosity . |
| 28 | To see him in this way has made it possible — has made it logical and rational — to set fire to the night skies of Iraq . |
| 29 | I may have been being a bit selfish , but I could n't bear to lose him in that way , and he seemed to be making such an effort himself , not ever putting weight on that leg and eating as much as he could . |
| 30 | Such examples lead on to Nagel 's definition of moral luck : ‘ Where a significant aspect of what someone does depends upon factors beyond his control , yet we continue to treat him in that respect as an object of moral judgment , it can be called moral luck . |