Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun] [prep] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two , Marxist and Empirical Socialist , unite in their criticism of the utopian promise of his schemes and of the impracticability of his proposals for carrying them into effect . |
| 2 | Both as a writer and a man , his genius lay in his ability to resist the subversive tendencies of his personality by fashioning them into something larger than himself . |
| 3 | But what I set out to do was to show the idiocy of his ideas by bouncing them against other ideas , some of them perhaps equally extreme and absurd . |
| 4 | If you noticed copes with his hands by pushing them behind his back , copes with them by having her papers in her hand . |
| 5 | She had spent the evening smouldering with resentment after his callous dismissal of her father 's death , but now the biblical phrases Luke had employed earlier were suddenly hammering at her brain and heightening her agitation , although she suspected that she was playing into his hands by allowing them to do so . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's got a bee in his bonnet about keeping them out of remand homes and prison . |
| 7 | His mind was racing now , beads of sweat standing out on his forehead , as he desperately tried to think of some way of alerting the pump attendant to his predicament without endangering them both . |
| 8 | Albert Lubin remarks perceptively that the presence of babies ‘ relieved his sadness , and numerous drawings and paintings of babies attest to his fascination with recreating them . ’ |
| 9 | Ignoring the newcomers , Hale coaxed Lawyer and his headmen over to his side by offering them personal guarantees and doubling the size of the proposed reservation . |
| 10 | He brought undue pressure to bear on his parents by giving them an entirely misleading account of the documents . |
| 11 | Then he made this behaviour steadily more difficult for his birds by challenging them with blasts of air , or baths filled with water , or by making them push past weighted doors . |
| 12 | If a husband has been ‘ spoilt ’ by his mother , he can make it very difficult for his wife by comparing them . |
| 13 | Though immensely enjoyable to read , the Exercises give no impression that Gassendi is doing the best by his opponents before attacking them . |
| 14 | The recollections of those who worked with him in the war years show a striking convergence : volunteers were won over instantly by the self-assured prophetic tone in which he discussed the war and by his knack of making them feel that they had been singled out to receive a confidence . |