Example sentences of "i [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 | 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 isolated them in a holding pool and treated them with salt baths , but they all died . |
| 6 | I followed them onto a narrow , crumbling ledge above the ravine where the wind hurled us against the wall . |
| 7 | Her last words had been spoken very portentously , and I rewarded them with a dubious shrug . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I mean every week I supplied them with a new stack of everybody wanted them . |