Sentence examples for had engaged him from inspiring English sources

In 1511 Sebastiano went to Rome, where the Sienese banker Agostino Chigi had engaged him to decorate his newly built Villa Farnesina.

Sir John sold the Templeton family of funds — scores of them with $13 billion in assets — in 1992, and turned to philanthropies that had engaged him for decades.

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.

(It would be unfair to suppose Bernoulli was his only disappointed creditor). In Bernoulli's old age, he boasted of the princely sum for which l'Hopital had engaged him, magnifying both the amount and the duration.

An arm's length away, a bubbly girl of about 6, gleefully riding this Manhattan-bound N train with her father, had engaged him in a round of I Spy.

Before the robing ceremony, Roth told me, a group of students had engaged him in a spirited discussion of "The Counterlife," and he had talked to them about Bellow and Malamud.

I shouldn't have engaged him," Warner told Sky Sports Radio.

Nothing but the expectation of this could have engaged him to have undertaken this voyage.

I was in the wrong … I shouldn't have engaged him.

Or they might have engaged him in a conversation of what is enough.

Among the main characters, we meet the Attorney General, described as a man whose job had hitherto "seemed not to have engaged him fully".