Sentence examples for humour him from inspiring English sources

So to humour him, I said, "What would you recommend?" He told me to start with 'The Black Dahlia'.

Her Mrs Lovett adores Sweeney but is frightened enough to humour him, miming his murderous tastes with a flirtatious cut-throat gesture of her own.

So when he came up with My Ding-a-Ling as his closing number, the audience couldn't quite believe it – but wanted to humour him.

Clearly, some big companies are willing to humour him, and neglect to take issue with some of the nonsensical claims made by social activists against them.Splashing out on a big report may keep activists off a company's back.

Jennings recognises that he can be "a bit of a nightmare" when he's building up to a press night or chasing screen work, though his family are no longer so willing to humour him.

But actor Dean Cameron, with time on his hands between jobs, one day hit the 'reply' button and wrote: 'Great - do you have any toast?' So began an 11-month correspondence with a Nigerian crime syndicate, in which Cameron adopted the persona of a lonely, camp Florida millionaire and the Nigerians desperately attempted to humour him in the hope of getting some cash.

It was a sort of superstition, so I humoured him.

Richard, to give him credit, clearly loves Judy very much too: she humours him, he makes her feel special.

Yates almost humours him as he subtly challenges his books and articles, allowing the pick-up artist to paint himself into a corner all by himself.

The second alternate reality temptation is to imagine the young Koumas coming under the influence of a quality manager who backed him, understood, cajoled and humoured him but, once again, I know I'm kidding myself.

Since 2009 Obama has performed the traditional pardoning of the national Thanksgiving turkey while his daughters have humoured him and his terrible puns, with expressions betraying amusement, bemusement and boredom.