Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] they [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I earned quite a lot of money by showing my Lilliputian animals to people , and in the end I sold them for a high price . |
| 2 | Dutifully , I changed them to a complete muesli-type food which is described on the bag as ‘ Hi Protein Fitness Food ’ . |
| 3 | I booked them into a working men 's cabaret club in South Wales . |
| 4 | I isolated them in a holding pool and treated them with salt baths , but they all died . |
| 5 | I followed them onto a narrow , crumbling ledge above the ravine where the wind hurled us against the wall . |
| 6 | Her last words had been spoken very portentously , and I rewarded them with a dubious shrug . |
| 7 | The size of the brood was only six fish but as these were my first Cardinal Tetras I treated them as a normal spawning , with partial weekly water changes . |
| 8 | At planning meetings with the senior management I often had to endure predictable little jokes about Andreas 's ‘ harem ’ , but I took them with a good grace . |
| 9 | My mother then gathered them up and put them in a container , and I took them to a nearby stream and let them go with goodness knows what effect on the environment . |
| 10 | I mean every week I supplied them with a new stack of everybody wanted them . |
| 11 | Other voluntary hospitals with such funds lost them to the Exchequer , which pooled them in a central fund . |
| 12 | If you did , if you failed them on a regular basis , you would n't be here , right ? |
| 13 | She led them down a narrow corridor and into a comfortable lounge . |
| 14 | She led them onto a small covered terrace running the full width of the house . |
| 15 | In fact , it was an ‘ A ’ team player who helped them towards a good victory over highly placed Malshanger on Wednesday last week . |
| 16 | ‘ Now , I want you both to just relax and take it easy , ’ she told them with a warm smile . |
| 17 | The four men — Talb , aged 35 , Marten Imandi , and two brothers , Mustafa and Mahmoud Mougrabi — were known to the intelligence services , who linked them with a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — General Command ( PFLP-GC ) cell working in Frankfurt and Neuss . |
| 18 | She was not going to say or do anything that would make John Major 's task more difficult : the Cabinet , here she indicated them with a sinuous wave of her hand , was the most brilliant since Herbert Asquith 's and , as for Central Office , and she looked directly at Sir Charles , who was mopping his brow , they were good men and true who strove mightily in the interests of the Party , and for precious little reward . |
| 19 | She took them by a short cut to the Weinbaum Canal . |
| 20 | Many settlers found the presence of this armed and organized people on their doorstep unnerving — Delamere , who treated them with a lordly tolerance , conspicuously did not — and so , conscious of the injustice which had been done , did the administration . |
| 21 | She kept them in a black velvet bag and would occasionally take them out , when Wakelate was busy , to stand them in the sunlight . |
| 22 | In some cases groups of villagers rented them , in others local landowners and in others again merchants , who took them on a speculative basis ( 209 , p.282 ) . |
| 23 | Since the plot had the usual operatic complication he had advised her to read the programme notes beforehand , and she perused them with a certain grim incredulity . |
| 24 | But his wife now , she liked them in a motherly kind of way . |
| 25 | She had them in a big glass jar and if you were very good and special occasions . |
| 26 | She ushered them down a long corridor through countless swing doors . |
| 27 | She ushered them into a small cluttered room where a middle-aged woman in a navy dress sat behind a littered desk . |
| 28 | On seeing me , who greeted them with a cheery ‘ Good afternoon , ladies ! ’ |
| 29 | We kept them in a mud-walled hut and posted a guard to keep watch , armed with a can of paraffin . |
| 30 | We saved them in a big tin , and when we got to the theatre and she opened it up they were all stuck together in a fluffy lump — pear-drops , and fruit-gums and licorice torpedoes and polo mints , with bits of hair and silver paper and bus tickets sticking out . |