Example sentences of "his [adj] [noun pl] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | His foster parents say they 're giving him a break from events back home . |
| 2 | His foster parents say they 're giving him a break from events back home . |
| 3 | His child-like enjoyment of the new equipment and gadgetry he came to be able to afford in later life gave warmly affectionate amusement to his friends especially when they found him camping in his own front garden in the latest tent and sleeping bag , or were asked to take him , when he was stone-blind from glaucoma , to the locations of his favourite plants to photograph them with an auto-focus camera . |
| 4 | He says Ali 's mind is one hundred per cent , his motor functions like they should be . |
| 5 | His sad tones prepared them for the news as he announced that German troops had not withdrawn from Poland and consequently Britain was now at war with Germany . |
| 6 | His dazzling skills lifted them to a four-goal victory as he scored one and set up two of his striking partner Kevin Campbell 's three goals . |
| 7 | No retributory institution , prison , hulk , penal colony , or penitentiary adequately combined punishment with reformation : he and his select committees exposed them , to little avail . |
| 8 | Many more have claimed him to be a genius of the hidden writings of the past ; an unsurpassed esoteric ; an extraordinary magician who deliberately mixed up his mysterious verses to hide them from weaklings and meddlers . |
| 9 | Christian Lacroix , who gained notoriety as one of Paris 's most flamboyant dress designers in the 1980s , has had to tone down his gaudy garments to get them into department stores . |
| 10 | In her book Beautiful Theories , the late Elizabeth Bruss made a revealing examination of the way in which Barthes 's different translators carried out their task ; she shows that whereas Heath did not disguise the difficulty and opacity in Barthes 's texts , his American translators turned them into smooth narratives . |
| 11 | Wake up ! ’ she cried , as she rubbed his icy cheeks to warm them and try to bring him round . |
| 12 | Goma appealed to the man who denounced the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 to stand up and be counted , and so give an example to his fellow citizens to persuade them to overcome their reticence about signing the Charter : |
| 13 | While an overwhelming number of Scottish Labour MPs contacted by The Scotsman this week underlined their support for Mr Clarke , some of his original supporters indicated they would not support him in the shadow cabinet elections later this year . |