Example sentences of "his [noun] [verb] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I love the passage ( Numbers 14:15-17 ) where Moses craftily dissuades God from killing his own people by suggesting other people will think he did it to cover up his inability to get them to the promised land . |
| 2 | It was first spotted by Gary Walker at Wiiija Records — currently championing Huggy Bear and Cornershop and one of the ‘ 90s ’ most underestimated talent scouts — who flew to Belfast with the last of his money to sign them in the early days . |
| 3 | When Paula and Sally played records on the wind-up gramophone in the sitting room Grandad banged on the ceiling with his stick to warn them to be quieter . |
| 4 | In some cases , again , his links with the local gentry can be inferred only from his readiness to use them on sensitive business after 1483 . |
| 5 | In some cases , again , his links with the local gentry can be inferred only from his readiness to use them on sensitive business after 1483 . |
| 6 | His Majesty congratulated them on the solution of this difficult problem , and pointed out that while France and other countries existed for weeks without a Government , in this country our constitution is so generous that leaders of Parties . |
| 7 | This type of coven is usually on the borderline of satanism , and the ‘ sincere ’ members believe that the devil and his demons need them as agents to wreak havoc in the world . |
| 8 | Edith Sitwell had wanted to sue a reviewer because his notice was likely to hurt the sales of her book — and we thought it had merely been his duty to his readers to discourage them from buying a book that he thought bad . |
| 9 | They had warned Aristide in recent weeks to drop his plan to replace them with another motorized unit , which was Swiss trained and more loyal to him . |
| 10 | Their lawlessness became so notorious that James VI proscribed the clan , which turned out to be very unpleasant indeed , and his edict described them as : ‘ that wicked race of lawless luminaries , callit the Macgregor ’ . |
| 11 | Dathan and Abiram challenge Moses on the grounds of high-handedness and his failure to bring them into the promised land ( 13–14 ) . |
| 12 | The pictures resisted his efforts to shuffle them into chronological order . |
| 13 | At the same time , the figure for ‘ operational balances at the Bank of England ’ falls by an equal amount as the recipients of his cheques pay them into their accounts at different banks and the cheques are presented for payment at the issuing bank . |
| 14 | He has always been fanatically into body culture , punishing his muscles to keep them at the peak of definition and tone . |
| 15 | In this extract the senior devil instructs his nephew to use them as a tactic in subverting the progress of the new believer : |
| 16 | He says they stopped selling replica handguns because he suspected that some of his customers wanted them for possible criminal reasons . |
| 17 | Mr Morgan and his organ releasing them into hysterical laughter had anaesthetized the horror of the past . |
| 18 | He had smoked one cigarette after the other , holding them cupped in his palm to protect them from the rain . |
| 19 | In 10.29 Moses invited his father-in-law to accompany them on their journeyings with the words , ‘ … come with us , and we will do you good ; for the Lord has promised good to Israel . ’ |
| 20 | His tongue tattooed them with circles of heat . |
| 21 | For instance , yesterday he saw a funeral in a barge , fascinating — six women wrapped in coats in the boat , which the men were dragging along the canal through the heath , and the clergyman in his three-cornered hat and his breeches trailing them on the other side . |
| 22 | He made it cling to the garments of his characters to provide them with something of their personalities . |
| 23 | Yet God still speaks by his Spirit to throw fresh light on his word so that we might see its relevance to the contemporary world , and he speaks to his servants to guide them through the perplexities of life . |
| 24 | The hoarse urgency of his voice galvanized them into action before their minds had taken in what was happening . |
| 25 | His rejection leaves them to their own emptiness . |
| 26 | His contempt shrivelled them on her tongue . |
| 27 | The president raised his hand to silence them before going on . |
| 28 | And behold there were sheep being driven , and they went not forward but stood still ; and the shepherd lifted his hand to smite them with his staff , and his hand remained up . |
| 29 | Not so Jack , who appeared to have forgotten that it was his idea to invite them in the first place . |
| 30 | But his tone left them in no doubt as to his feelings as he grunted , ‘ I suggested to your fiancée , ’ he uttered the noun with contempt , ‘ that she release you from this ridiculous arrangement . |