Example sentences of "him in his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Haverford Downs , dressed now in a tweed jacket , grey flannels and a white polo-necked sweater , holding an ivory-topped walking-stick in a plump hand on which a single green-stoned ring — alleged by him in his wilder moments to have been worn by Aubrey Beardsley — winked malevolently , gave her his full septuagenarian charm . |
| 3 | Joshua Cohen had long ago recognised that Jacob would never make a businessman and had quickly abandoned his dream of having his son join him in his scrap-iron store . |
| 4 | ‘ I wondered if you also acted for him in his private affairs ? ’ |
| 5 | Himmler received him in his private sitting room in the south wing . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Often he would send for Cranmer in the night to reassure him in his religious doubts and difficulties . |
| 8 | Daniel had better watch out for him in his rear-view mirror . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Michael O'Neil knows what the score is now better than any of us here , and if I know Michael , he 'll be arguing with St Peter at the gate and be telling him in his best Superintendent manner that celestial security is not what it was - if they let people like him in ! ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was the interest of his parents which sustained him in his early school career . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ( d ) This is the same ground as that which entitles a sheriff to allow an appeal made to him in his administrative capacity . |
| 16 | Experience of the corruption and nepotism of Rome confirmed him in his Anglican allegiance . |
| 17 | It is hoped that this instrument will help him in his new parish of Our Lady of Lourdes in Leasowe to enrich further the lives of the people at home with all kinds of music . |
| 18 | I look forward to working with him in his new role . |
| 19 | He learned English in order to deliver the lectures expected of him in his new post . |
| 20 | While is possible that Ryde have signed him in his other capacity as Saviour of the World , the official reason is that regular ‘ keeper Ian Lloyd is having trials with York City . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | And he calls each one of us to be labourers together with him in his great harvest field . |
| 24 | So I can go upstairs and put him in his rocking chair . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | A man , pushing past her , swept the dress bag out of her hand , carrying it along with him in his thrusting progress . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 " . |
| 30 | He faces the prospect of retirement with the same level-headed commonsense approach with which he has tackled most of the issues that have confronted him in his long career . |