Sentence examples for he engaged him from inspiring English sources

He engaged him in conversation: what did he want, what were his problems, could he solve them?

Uncle Arthu had promised William, on his deathbed, to keep Oscar out of the theatrical business, but he finally gave in and gave Oscar his first job, when he engaged him as assistant manager of one of his own productions.

For all Daley's understandable upset and anger, why on earth did he engage him?

Bilbo faces the dragon with humor and an apparent lack of fear, appealing to Smaug's vanity as he engages him in conversation and avoids his fiery blasts while searching for the treasured stone in a deep sea of gold.

bus and sat down next to a lady who held a dog in her lap, and who asked him if he'd mind if she engaged him in conversation.

He began to squirm, so she engaged him in conversation.

Not only did Nicholas commission Solntsev to design dinner services and decorate his private apartments in the Kremlin, he also engaged him to create illustrations for two encyclopedic books documenting Russian culture.

Instead, he just engaged him in a father-to-father conversation about how precious it is for one's children to have a true understanding about the nature and value of their parents' work, and how unfortunate it would be if those children were led to believe that their parent's work was exploitative or dishonest.

Wonderfully, and hilariously, he asked animated questions on air about the details that had surprised or engaged him — he has caught the bug.

"She walked up and engaged him," he said.

Hitchcock asked him to play some of the other things he had written and engaged him to write the score for his new show, "Hitchy-Koo of 1919".