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Example sentences of "he [vb past] their " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The square was quite empty by now and he and the little group of men with him made their way across it without difficulty .
2	He gestured , and the men on either side of him lowered their lances and charged Burun .
3	Omega 's captain and the submarine commander beside him lifted their hands in salute ; heads high , Taureg 's officers returned it as the at-ease submariners snapped as one man to attention .
4	The two men who had stood behind him gave their names quickly , eagerly , anxious to avoid association .
5	Amanullah had been influenced by what he saw as the modernising reforms introduced in Turkey and Iran : he tried to build up a central army , organised a parliament , and decreed that women should wear western dress : the final straw for the tribes came when he made their leaders listen to a five-day speech .
6	When God made the plants that are on this Earth , first He made their stalks and leaves .
7	He made their blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah .
8	He made their glowing colours he made their tiny wings
9	He made their glowing colours he made their tiny wings
10	glowing colours he made their tiny wings
11	He reported that women , when asked by the researcher to assess the standardness of their own speech , tended to overestimate their use of prestige forms ( he checked their assessments against taped samples of their actual talk ) .
12	He voiced their torment at knowing their children would be medically examined without consent and without any familiar face being present .
13	For a moment he savoured their saltiness and then he seemed to register that her body was being racked with sobs .
14	When Toscanini was told about this he doubled their winning for them .
15	But no , he passed their door as well and opted for No 12 .
16	Dr. Saxby detached himself as he passed their table and put his hand on Briant 's shoulder .
17	She lay awake until he came up but he passed their door without stopping and she heard his door close and the jangle of springs through the wall as he sat on the bed to take his boots off .
18	‘ Strange , ’ Ven drawled , ‘ I was going to order the same , ’ he added solemnly , and , not giving her a hint of what she had requested , he passed their two orders over to the waiter .
19	Then , with the approval of Rosanne — by then Mrs Mansell — he sold their home and bought himself some more races .
20	He enrolled in The Open University as a student of Earth Sciences and , with his wife 's support , he sold their home in Bearsden , moved into rented accommodation in Livingstone and with his small capital , rented factory premises to set up his own small business .
21	He met their envoys at Bourges .
22	He met their eyes steadily .
23	The appetite for power these immense forces display worried Stead , and he argued their style could only lead to an autocratic national system with a minister of central government at the apex .
24	On yet another level , however , de Gaulle provided just enough mystery about his own preferences to allow those who wanted to believe in " francisation " to go on believing that he shared their views .
25	He fought their attempts to carry him out with the strength of one possessed .
26	It was at this point , Simmons said later , that he realized their request was bound to fail .
27	They told him they were going to do this , the papers were signed and he became their son .
28	In 1957 he was appointed relief manager for their branches throughout London and three years later he became their Holloway branch manager , moving to Ilford as the manager in 1963 and on to Southend-on-Sea as depot manager in 1973 .
29	He asked their Lordships for the forthcoming Proof before the Sheriff to be heard away from Orkney in mainland Scotland .
30	He did not want to see them simply crushed , not only because he respected their opinion , but because he would have to go on working with them after the Council .