Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [verb] them [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his inaugural address Iliescu referred to the " excesses " committed by the miners , but remained unapologetic about his decision to call them in . |
| 2 | Urquhart flung his arms back and forth across his body to warm them up . |
| 3 | " I 'm sorry , can I … " she motioned towards the door , and he helped her through the packed people , using his elbow to get them out of the way . |
| 4 | These comforted her , not because she had any faith in their message , but because they were phrased with some beauty ; they were made up of words that seemed to apply to some large and other world of other realities , and they bore witness , also , to the fact that somebody had thought it worth his while to put them up . |
| 5 | Tutilo 's habit shimmered about the shoulders with the soft and soundless rain of Spring , which had begun to fall in mid-evening , his curls were damp and ruffled , and the hand he passed across his forehead to brush them back left a dark smear behind . |
| 6 | Some evenings , his parents almost seemed to circle round after one another , his mother turning lights on , his father switching them off . |
| 7 | ‘ His father pointed them out to him often enough and he knew that things would drop on him from a great height if he put a foot wrong . ’ |
| 8 | Whenever kids are near he goes out of his way to pick them up and snuggle and kiss them , sometimes more tenderly than one could imagine their parents doing . |
| 9 | Nor was she concerned by his threat to put them out of the house . |