Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] they [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chief allotted Sycorax and Ariel three women to attend them , and then turned to face Kit , and traced between them with his staff three circles in the dust . |
| 2 | With heartfelt thanks he ran to the stable and , before his parents had gone more than a few yards , he had galloped past them towards his home . |
| 3 | Having been a hostage among the Huns himself , he had called in Hunnic troops to support the usurper Joannes in 425 ; he fled to them after his defeat at the hands of Boniface in 432 ; and he was probably behind their destruction of the Burgundian kingdom in the mid-430s . |
| 4 | If therefore the forgeries were in his hands , and he referred to them in his account to the pope without going further and quoting their contents and producing their texts , his conduct shows ( to say the least ) very muddled thinking on his part . |
| 5 | In some circumstances as the cases show , Mr. Lawson referred to them in his skeleton argument , prejudice will be presumed from substantial delay . |
| 6 | Derek Anderson , for example , showed considerable promise in a number of sports and was encouraged to work at them by his teachers , but , when asked whether he ever thought of making sport his eventual career , he replied : |
| 7 | But Izzie , watching the figure loping towards them with his strange , wolf-like walk , suddenly knew how the Devil will look on the day of his Redemption . |
| 8 | But at this moment the other rabbit came towards them of his own accord . |
| 9 | They 've had er enormous difficulties and er the honourable gentleman will er know that the South Wales police authority committee , its officers and its Chief Constable have er visited parliament er to put their case to members representing the South Wales police authority area and indeed to er Earl Ferrers the minister er responsible for the police and they certainly have n't had any er criticism made of them by his own government and if er he believes that there is a criticism I would suggest that he takes a leaf out of the book of his er , his right honourable friend the Secretary of State and refers the matter so that it can be properly audited and er I think the honourable gentleman knows that when that is done he will see that there is no blame attached whatsoever to the members or the officers of the police authority . |
| 10 | Taskopruzade , for example , names his teachers and the works he studied under them in his autobiography appended to the but even he does not give the medreses in which he studied . |
| 11 | The washers were made by early afternoon and a site manager drove with them in his car to an RAF service depot in southern England . |
| 12 | Society imposes an obligation to look after his parents , as a debt owed to them for his upbringing , and owed to society for passing on to his children the obligation to do the same for him . |
| 13 | He could n't even put together a picture of her day any longer , because she had n't allowed him to see the Bloomsbury rooms where she lived , though he had mooned by them in his car often enough , at the starts of many nights doomed to reveries of longing and revenge . |
| 14 | He had dark glasses on , but I could just see through them to his closed eyes . |
| 15 | He was waiting for them with his barge by the first footbridge over the canal as they came down from the moor . |
| 16 | They reached the stables and found Murtach waiting for them with his sword strapped to his back and a quiver of arrows at his hip . |
| 17 | Up the slope , at the top of his semi-circular steps , Alexander Menzies was waiting for them in his best silk coat like a dandy at a ball , with a straightfaced young man standing by his side . |
| 18 | Cripps denied that the books had been improperly kept , saying that an accounts clerk had been appointed to look after them after his own health had broken down in 1917 . |
| 19 | Bennet was hurrying towards them in his smart grey uniform . |
| 20 | He talked with them in his study or took them for walks in the park . |
| 21 | If another pair arrives while his mate is with their young , he chases them away , charging at them with his neck outstretched . |
| 22 | Of course , the man will take the major decisions , and be supported in them by his wife ; and obeyed , if you like . |
| 23 | They clambered up onto the floor , followed eagerly by George who practically fell over them in his clumsy desire to get in . |
| 24 | Stared at them with his bleeding eyes . |
| 25 | This form of prayer , then , gathers up all our experiences and takes them to the King of Kings , and we think about them in his presence — all the hurts , all the joys , all that stops us becoming the kind of persons we feel called to be . |
| 26 | Wycliffe was talking to them in his little office , where the Salvation Army band had once stored their instruments . |
| 27 | ‘ Could we ? ’ both Leith and Sebastian asked together , the idea of renting accommodation swiftly tossed aside , as it quickly sank in that their father , trustee to the considerable amount of money left to them by his father , seemed prepared to use his discretionary right and let them have it now . |
| 28 | Bellybutton , painting his delicate silver star , laughed up at the twins with his discoloured teeth , while McIllvanney leered at them from his office window . |
| 29 | I wonder what time , the other night , Trevor had with them on his own ? |
| 30 | I wonder what kind of a night Trevor had with them on his own ? |