Example sentences of "[vb pp] them [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could not afford to antagonize Anselm , but — with motives very similar to those which led Anselm to maintain the rights of his see as he had received them from his predecessors — he had no intention of abandoning any rights enjoyed by his father and brother . |
| 2 | Perched them on his nose . |
| 3 | Bartram s query regarding Kalm s American observations was dealt with : Miller had not seen whether Linnaeus had included them in his Species of plants , but mentioned that Kalm had published them himself ; ‘ in the Swedish language ; but as I do not understand it , so I have not been curious enough to send for the book , nor do I hear any good character of it . ’ |
| 4 | Aristotle , no doubt , must have included them in his lost work on the customs of the barbarians . |
| 5 | George did that , really , so that when his grandchildren came he had n't got them under his feet . |
| 6 | I went out to bring the washing in and he 'd got them in his mouth ! |
| 7 | When Pat had told them of his new orders he said to his wife , ‘ You 'll have your lad home again , Julia , however it goes with , these letters he 's had . |
| 8 | ‘ France has her eyes on you , ’ he had told them in his first Order of the Day , and the troops had their eyes on Pétain ; even though for the best part of a week they were not actually to see the new commander in person . |
| 9 | 7 ‘ RAILWAYS : If Napoleon had had them at his disposition , he would have been invincible . |
| 10 | If I 'd had some castanets I 'd have clicked them in his face . |
| 11 | Yet Clark had known all along of the military preparations ‘ Musketeer I ’ and ‘ Musketeer II ’ and had been dismayed when Dulles seemed to have aborted them with his Suez Canal Users Club ; and after the Anglo-French meeting in London in September he had put out ‘ a dull communiqué , and no one has the least idea of what big things were abroad' . |
| 12 | He 'd walked up and down those shitawful streets , absorbing the sights and sounds and smells of the real Machinian Oswaldston , and he had tentatively rendered them in his mind in Brobdingnagian words . |
| 13 | Even that buttock-licker Pybus seems worried that Pahdra Singh has replaced them with his shifty brothers but , as I told Crowe , having a property developer , an estate agent and a supermarket magnate on the board can only be good for the club . |
| 14 | He must somehow have dislodged them on his way in . |
| 15 | The Secretary of State for Energy , Mr Nigel Lawson , had not fooled them with his praise for the fast reactor two days earlier ; for his action , to delay the work all but indefinitely , spoke louder than his words . |
| 16 | Byrd 's 22 variations on ‘ Walsingham ’ present special difficulties including cross-rhythm , but Bull seems to have deliberately trumped them with his even more brilliant and difficult 30 variations on the same tune , which Tregian placed at the head of his anthology : a veritable thesaurus of keyboard devices . |
| 17 | Benson was a large , calm man in his early sixties , grey of hair , cherubic and cheerful of countenance , and wearing a sports jacket , flannels and polo jersey , all of varying shades of grey and all so lived in , comfortable and crumpled that he could well have inherited them from his grandfather . |
| 18 | The unimaginable heat and weight of Fenna had pressed the ooze in the cave , pressed so hotly and heavily that the molecules of mud were squeezed apart , breaking up into carbon atoms and hydrogen atoms , and his weight had compressed the carbon atoms into diamond crystals , and more and more diamonds until his hoard was a lure to garish youths , who had toiled up to his cave and exchanged riddles and blows with him , but when he had fixed them with his ancient evil little eyes , they retreated abashed to sing his praises . |
| 19 | She had merely unearthed them from his office . |
| 20 | Fenella looked over her shoulder at them and saw that they were looking at her with such blind trust and with such faith that cold anger rose in her at the evil Lord who had forced them to his work . |
| 21 | Strictly they were attached to the governor 's staff as equerries or grooms , but as with singulares their duties may have taken them outside his immediate entourage . |
| 22 | They 've both been brought up in Ireland and the Bishop has taken them into his household . ’ |
| 23 | On 5 December 1991 the father applied for an order that his two children be returned to the jurisdiction of the State of Victoria , Australia , on the ground that the mother had taken them without his consent in breach of the joint custodial rights vested in him under the Australian Family Law Act 1975 . |
| 24 | The shadows took on forms and approached him , wreathed in the phantom smoke that matched that which had taken them from his life . |
| 25 | He 's lost them under his leg . |
| 26 | Yet I have not repeated them in his own words . |
| 27 | Why Stirling and Maclean were invited remains a bit of a mystery , but it is probable that Randolph had mentioned them to his father . |
| 28 | I was surprised he knew those words ; he must have acquired them from his wife . |