Example sentences of "[vb past] them [prep] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stopped himself from looking at any of them and stuffed them into his waste-paper basket . |
| 2 | This meant that he never fought them on his own terms , always theirs , and it blinded him to the realisation that when all else failed , when all the appeals for ‘ fair play ’ fell on stony ground , that he could have utilised his mass following of workers to shake the ground beneath the Empire . |
| 3 | He greatly influenced modern methods of excavation : he deliberately studied Pitt-Rivers ' methods and modified them to his own ideas . |
| 4 | To hasten this process , Bakewell rented out his bulls so that their performance was proven elsewhere before he used them in his own herd . |
| 5 | On a Jamaican cattle ranch acquired in settlement of some debts , he freed the slaves and transported them at his own expense to Philadelphia for resettlement . |
| 6 | Feeling drugged , and wanton , she touched her fingers to his nape , his ears , tangled them in his thick hair , felt his soft sigh as his breath mingled with hers — and still he continued to kiss her . |
| 7 | He was glad that he did n't throw out the Christmas cards from his son and daughter in 1987 , for every year since he had taken them out of the suitcase on top of the wardrobe and displayed them in his own room as if they had come in with the morning post . |
| 8 | Both fly halves favoured high kicks , but Bircham fielded them with his usual aplomb . |
| 9 | It took the London store magnate Gordon Selfridge , who included them in his own advertising copy in the evening papers , to show that publishing them would increase the value of the paper to its readers , rather than make them desert to a rival medium . |
| 10 | He reached up , plucked his balls from Legion 's body and stashed them inside his capacious pockets . |
| 11 | He also related them to his own state of affairs . |
| 12 | He would not believe anything till he saw them with his own eyes . |
| 13 | Instead he went into his own church , secured the door , lit candles and took them to his small carrel where he placed his writing tray . |
| 14 | Rachel handed them to him , and he put them in his inside jacket pocket . |
| 15 | Prisoners arrested for Forest trespasses ought to have been handed over to the sheriff of Rutland for imprisonment in Oakham castle , but Neville put them in his own gaol at Allexton , which was ‘ full of water at the bottom ’ , and bound them with iron chains . |
| 16 | Discharging the jury after a plea from defence lawyers , judge Verney reminded them of his earlier warning . |
| 17 | The negative side of all this was ben Eliezer 's polemics against straight-faced , over-serious rabbinism ; against those whose understanding of God 's nature was austere and unfatherly ; those who , while seeking to elevate the Most High , merely put him out of touch with his own children ; debarred them from his welcoming presence by a system or learning that became ‘ frivolous ’ in its intensity : not that its perpetrators could be frivolous : black was their colour , even as severity was their posture — as becomes the frozen-in-soul . |
| 18 | The Marshal slipped them into his top pocket . |
| 19 | Howard converted them with his own hands , as he did everything else on the property . |
| 20 | It was alleged ( a ) that the plaintiff was possessed of the goods ; ( b ) that he accidentally lost them ; ( c ) that the defendant found them ; ( d ) that the defendant converted them to his own use . |
| 21 | The colonel , monocle in place , once again briefed them from his motionless horse . |
| 22 | She heard his low voice as he spoke to them , greeted them after his long absence . |
| 23 | Shelley heard his footstep in the grass as he turned to face her , and slowly took off his glasses and pushed them into his back pocket ; but she was n't prepared for being taken bodily into his arms and soundly kissed . |
| 24 | Going to him , she wound her arms into his smoking-jacket and snaked them about his naked body . |