Example sentences of "i [verb] 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 | 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 . |