Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would appear from time to time and taunt the old couple , reminding them of their past lives and the failures or mistakes which had brought them to the castle ( though never detailing them — neither Quiss nor Ajayi knew what the other had done to justify sending them here . |
| 2 | Perhaps one day an Ayrshire school or other organisation will pursue the theme and bring the peoples of the old and new worlds closer to each other by reminding them of their common bonds . |
| 3 | There seems nothing at all strange about the Church , which paid the salaries of these men and expected them to serve it , considering the question of whether or not they should be able to engage in an activity which , no matter how acceptable , would have diverted them from their main task . |
| 4 | This is not , in fact , the best time of year to see them in their full glory , but you will appreciate , sir , that with the arrival of spring , we will see a change — a very special sort of change — in these surroundings . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I have loved elephants since I was a child and it will be fantastic to see them in their natural environment . ’ |
| 6 | In verse erm thirteen , I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries and bring them into their own land . |
| 7 | But it was very premature , and I 'm very I was very sorry that they 'd taken this step , but very , very pleased when I saw the result coming out , and I 'm do congratulate them on their common sense there that they were prepared to put the opting out aside and were looking seriously and sensibly into the tertiary college consultations . |
| 8 | they can erm it can affect them in their later life and they hit out at people to show their affection . |
| 9 | It has this name because it enables you to alter the order of slides — you just drag them to their required positions . |
| 10 | Now the railways levelled them with their black cousins on the other side of the 49th parallel . |
| 11 | Large body-size would , in fact , isolate them from their thermal environment because they would exchange heat at lower rates . |
| 12 | Most previous commentators on the small towns have distinguished them from their larger counterparts on the basis of their usually haphazard and seemingly piecemeal development , though it has recently become clear that such a distinction , however useful , obscures recognizable variations among the surviving plans . |
| 13 | I should like to thank them for their outstanding contribution to BP , extending over many years . |
| 14 | I would like to thank them for their continuing forbearance and understanding , and for their hard work throughout the year . |
| 15 | The tendency to render horrific incidents of this sort into funny tales or ‘ atrocity stories ’ ( Dingwall 1977 ) , told ritualistically within the occupational culture of the station , is a further attempt to strip them of their emotional hold . |
| 16 | In 1986 he took over the captaincy from Fletcher and led them to their third championship in four years , but early in 1987 he suffered a bad loss of form and the team slipped right down the table . |
| 17 | Most of them are performed by women , and most women continue to perform them into their old age , whether or not they have formerly had paid employment . |
| 18 | The hostility which farmers have recently provoked from many environmentalists also helps to confirm them in their characteristic persecution complex , associated with being a small , closely knit minority in an urban industrial society . |
| 19 | Are you using them to their best advantage ? |
| 20 | Once the laws are introduced , the coaches and the players will try to devise means of using them to their own advantage . |
| 21 | monitor current prescriptions to make sure that children are not using them for their first experiments with drugs . |
| 22 | Using them for their filthy business . |
| 23 | By taking V2s from here , from the mountains , shipping them back and using them for their own experiments . |
| 24 | Leeds were annoying me at their sudden inability to keep the ball on the pitch , either kicking it off , or playing stupid passes up front ( down the middle ) straight to their keeper/defenders . |
| 25 | Of Charles Hutton : ‘ For the accommodation of such gentlemen and ladies as do n't choose to appear at the public school , I propose ( at vacant hours ) to attend them in their own apartments . ’ |
| 26 | The old retainer who had received them on their first visit tried to help but Cranston pushed him gently away , saying it was a holiday and besides he was here at Sir Richard 's request to pursue his inquiries privately . |
| 27 | Before then , the toads have to lay in sufficient stores of energy to sustain them during their patient vigil underground . |
| 28 | You must realize , my lord , how important they are and not hinder them in their beautiful lives . " |
| 29 | Even in the half-tones of night she could see the narrowing of those dangerous sapphire eyes , see sparks of desire bringing them to their full colour . |
| 30 | I judge them by their racial characteristics . |