Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the characters played by Leslie Banks in The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ) , or Robert Donat in The 39 Steps ( 1935 ) , are archetypically English in their capacity to muddle through , triumphing over the dark forces ranged against them by their flexibility of mind . |
| 2 | To get there they had to cross the mud , and sank in it to their ankles , but below the soft surface the foreshore was hard here , and although it was a filthy journey it was n't particularly difficult . |
| 3 | Three black youths with huge , multicoloured knitted caps pulled over their dreadlocks like tea-cosies lean against the plateglass window of the shopping-precinct cafe , drumming a reggae beat on it with their finger-tips until shooed away by the manageress . |
| 4 | Both the New Criticism and Scrutiny were products of the modernist literary revolution , and drew on it for their methods and their assumptions . |
| 5 | ‘ They came after me with their spears , too ! ’ |
| 6 | The Ezbekiya did indeed have its moments , in the very early morning when there were few people about and the big falcons sailed over it with their unexpectedly musical cries and the Egyptian doves cooed softly in the palm trees , but on the whole what Owen liked was the Ezbekiya 's outside . |
| 7 | On the whole , during what Duiker has called ‘ the Stalinist years ’ , this was something that was accepted by the Vietnamese Communist Party but one can imagine that it was not always so easy to accept the advice which came to them from their French comrades . |
| 8 | They kept their secret identities and paid for it through their Swiss bank accounts . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The old DDT sprays got into them through their feet and through the biting jaws but , like so many poisons , just as many friends are knocked over as foes , and the indiscriminate use of DDT is now banned in this country . |
| 11 | I prayed for them in their growing up years more than I had ever done before . |
| 12 | Making a hole in the top of a roll they poured in whiskey until it was well soaked , then threw it to the screaming gulls , who swooped upon it in their dozens . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It truly was winter sailing , but the camera crew had slept ashore and we rendezvoused with them in their camera boat down river at a civilised hour . |
| 15 | They talked to him of their lives as if by that they smeared some ointment on their existence . |
| 16 | They talked to me about their past and told me what sort of things they like doing . ’ |
| 17 | If I can just endorse what Stewart was saying the Parish Council talked to me as their consultant for a while and said look it seems that that with the with the actions of the er County Council writing to the Secretary of State to preempt the call-in procedures and the attitude of the District Council that this thing might well get local planning permission . |
| 18 | Four VI formers , two in their Lower VI year and two Upper VI talked to us of their education and plans for the future under the title ‘ Education for the 1990's ’ . |
| 19 | The two of them were drooping by then , in reaction from their long and laborious walk home , and sleepy from the wine mulled for them with their supper . |
| 20 | He and his fellow former hostages feel a debt of gratitude towards the men and women at Lyneham who looked after them on their return from captivity . |
| 21 | I remembered what Lili had said about brides being gift-wrapped , and thought of them in their boxes . |
| 22 | Before he could close it the crowd swarmed past him in their hundreds and set off towards the castle at a trot . |
| 23 | When the prayers were ended the three girls kissed him goodnight in turn , and Rose went with him to their room . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They wore at him with their shadows and little sounds |
| 26 | His ancestors stared at him from their portraits on the wall . |
| 27 | When they had gone , Lily cried for them in their helplessness , feeling , for all her weakness , stronger than them , realising that it was easier to contemplate one 's own death than the death of someone loved . |
| 28 | Before then ( before , that is , the age of the motor roads and the tourists that went with them ) it was known only to the Highlanders , and the hunting , shooting and fishing gentlemen who learned of her from their gillies . |
| 29 | They knew that the voice that spoke to them with their own voice was not their own but the voice of a being that had its abode in a world of light . |
| 30 | Many girls spoke to me of their feelings that their mother 's own self-image had a strong effect on them . |