Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] them [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 | I found them in an old file . |
3 | Dutifully , I changed them to a complete muesli-type food which is described on the bag as ‘ Hi Protein Fitness Food ’ . |
4 | I booked them into a working men 's cabaret club in South Wales . |
5 | I 've got them on in one room , er I put them on a little bit |
6 | ‘ I would n't kick out anyone who did n't perform , but when they came back I would make sure I put them in a safe place , ’ he says . |
7 | I isolated them in a holding pool and treated them with salt baths , but they all died . |
8 | In winter I fill them with a rich and succulent mincemeat mixture . |
9 | I followed them onto a narrow , crumbling ledge above the ravine where the wind hurled us against the wall . |
10 | Her last words had been spoken very portentously , and I rewarded them with a dubious shrug . |
11 | Whenever I am working with someone I know and trust I ask them for a quick trim . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | I mean I 've filled in a few forms for them but I mean probably you 're a passive owner like me in the sense that I do n't go and actively trade them , er I keep them in a long term investment , and that 's it . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Much as I regard them as a social nuisance on a par with the Orange Walk and invented by the devil to prevent churchgoers getting to church on time , I can not claim that marathons have ( yet ) been proved to kill enough people to justify banning them . |
17 | ‘ I do n't regard Jews as a class , ’ he snapped back at his questioner , ‘ I regard them as a privileged misfortune . ’ |
18 | I take them to a certain stage , but I tend to find finishing a painting much more difficult than starting it , so I 'll leave it to one side , maybe for a week or more , where I can see it , and as I pass it suddenly something will click . |
19 | I mean every week I supplied them with a new stack of everybody wanted them . |
20 | ‘ Sorry , but I really , truly can not help you now , ’ I say , just before I dispatch them on a current running down towards St Malo . |
21 | If you did , if you failed them on a regular basis , you would n't be here , right ? |
22 | She led them down a narrow corridor and into a comfortable lounge . |
23 | She led them onto a small covered terrace running the full width of the house . |
24 | If you put them in a hot room they do n't do so well . |
25 | You put them in a little brazier thing , like a tiny cup , and they smoulder — the man said they 'll scent the whole room . |
26 | ‘ Now , I want you both to just relax and take it easy , ’ she told them with a warm smile . |
27 | Things can appear to have a different significance if you view them from a different vantage-point . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | However , you may be surprised at just how much you can find out from these references if you approach them with an open mind . |
30 | When they know you , in a personal capacity , you have credibility when you contact them in a political role . |