Sentence examples for engaged him for from inspiring English sources

"I engaged him for a theatre play.

"She engaged him for one hour and took detailed notes".

Smoky, Maoist political frenzies, promoted by Immendorff, engaged him for a while, though not exclusively.

The City Opera engaged him for its inaugural production as the Sacristan in Puccini's "Tosca" on Feb.

Lord Beaverbrook engaged him for the Evening Bulletin, in 1928, and he has been with it ever since.

Mr. Templeton sold the Templeton family of funds — scores of them, with billions in assets — in 1992, and turned to philanthropies that had engaged him for decades.

Though her interest in Martin is limited, this Lola (Salma Hayek) engages him, for a fee, in vague, intense conversations about his mother.

By the late 1940s he had developed his mature style and settled on the themes that would engage him for the rest of his life: love, death, sex, grief, aging, alienation and religious faith.

The Ritz-Carlton and the Pierre always engage him for their big doings, and so do social secretaries like Juliana Cutting, and the firm of Mrs. Tappin & Mrs. Tew, Inc. Hamlett always announces at Junior Assemblies at the Ritz.

I'd figured out that I'd be more likely to get a friendly reception if I was to engage him for a couple of moments before we went on air, so I asked him a cheeky question about a restaurant that I'd heard he went to.

So popular was his performance that Bode re-engaged him for a further two shows: the musical farce In Gay Piccadilly! (1899), by George R. Sims, in which Leno's uncle, Johnny Danvers appeared (The Era said that Leno was "attracting huge houses" and called him "excruciatingly funny"); and the musical comedy Mr. Wix of Wickham (1902).