Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] him [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ladies mocked him , laughing at him behind their hands . ’ |
| 2 | How she had looked at him on their wedding day — as if he were a god ! |
| 3 | The two eldest of the ‘ broth ’ agreed with their father , nodding and grinning at him with their mouths full . |
| 4 | I heard my men going after him with their guns — and then everything went black . |
| 5 | Then they beat him with the pipes once again , but when they realized that he had managed to keep his secrets from them , that this small Englishman was not for talking , they turned on him in their fury and kicked and beat him until they feared they had killed him . |
| 6 | The disasters that befell his army paradoxically heightened his personal charisma : even the barons of Outremer continued to look on him as their one potential saviour . |
| 7 | calling to him in their stone language |
| 8 | He had condemned her and the warmth she had sensed in him from their first meeting had all gone . |
| 9 | Shelley had n't seen Miguel or heard from him since their meeting at Casa Madrid . |
| 10 | But , as she trailed after him into their own bedroom , leaning against the door while he quickly packed his case , she realised that she 'd already lost him . |
| 11 | They talked to him of their lives as if by that they smeared some ointment on their existence . |
| 12 | However , his young family is very important to him , and he had reservations about being a selector because players might be inhibited from coming to him with their problems . |
| 13 | Zoë Fairbairns says , ‘ Every reader will respond to him in their own way . |
| 14 | By this time Lewis was off into a fantasy in which a girl Adam had got pregnant had been abandoned by him with their child at Wyvis Hall where she had later been murdered by a sinister caretaker . |
| 15 | Isaac Ojok , a Minister of Education under the Obote regime , was sentenced to death on Dec. 18 , having been found guilty of plotting the downfall of the government of President Yoweri Museveni ; Ojok , who was arrested in 1987 , told the High Court that he joined the Holy Spirit guerrillas after being " stupefied by herbs " given to him by their leader Alice Lakwena [ for whom see p. 35493 ] . |
| 16 | Before he could close it the crowd swarmed past him in their hundreds and set off towards the castle at a trot . |
| 17 | When the prayers were ended the three girls kissed him goodnight in turn , and Rose went with him to their room . |
| 18 | In 1714 , the laird of Gleneagles solicited the post of bailie of the regality of Lennox for his son James Haldane , an advocate who ‘ not haveing reccommendation or interest enought to bring him quickly into business … thought this might contribute some thing to it ’ , but the Duke of Montrose kept such appointments firmly in the hands of Graham gentlemen who looked upon him as their chief . |
| 19 | There is the camel rider of Blunt in the glaring light and the thorn bushes clutching at him with their crooked hands . |
| 20 | They wore at him with their shadows and little sounds |
| 21 | His ancestors stared at him from their portraits on the wall . |
| 22 | She was always careful not to think about him during their estrangements but now , with him so near in time , there was a permissible pleasure in doing so . |
| 23 | He has few friends , and already the pressure Ipuky and Reni are putting on him through their friends is filtering down to me . |
| 24 | ‘ Great credit is due to Mr Peterken and the team he has gathered around him for their initiative and vision about finance . |
| 25 | They depended upon him for their pleasure , they admired him because he had a skill they did not , they liked him because he was charming and energetic , but they did not treat him as their equal . |
| 26 | Many of the clients who depended on him for their pensions have had to go back to work after their life savings were wiped out . |