Example sentences of "i [vb past] they [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent . |
| 2 | ‘ I met them at the same time , ’ Tim recalls . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself . |
| 5 | That 's what I should have done but I got them in the wrong order . |
| 6 | I found them in an old file . |
| 7 | Dutifully , I changed them to a complete muesli-type food which is described on the bag as ‘ Hi Protein Fitness Food ’ . |
| 8 | I told 'em about the listening post , so I do n't want it compromised , okay ? ’ |
| 9 | I booked them into a working men 's cabaret club in South Wales . |
| 10 | I isolated them in a holding pool and treated them with salt baths , but they all died . |
| 11 | I observed them with the silent attention a tiger must give its approaching prey . |
| 12 | I followed them onto a narrow , crumbling ledge above the ravine where the wind hurled us against the wall . |
| 13 | Her last words had been spoken very portentously , and I rewarded them with a dubious shrug . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I 'd heard that American Music Club were something wonderful , but when I saw them at the Grand in Clapham recently , I was n't that impressed . |
| 16 | I saw them through The Fat Controller 's eyes — they were gauche and dowdy , crammed into suitings so ill-fitting that they looked like bolsters stuffed into pillow cases . |
| 17 | Then , arranging the largest red roses at equally spaced intervals around the circle , I balanced them with the large single pink roses — it is always important to introduce both light and shade into a design , otherwise it can look very dull . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I took them to the dry cleaner 's this afternoon . ’ |
| 21 | And as part of the deal , I had some petty cash with which to buy them all sandwiches and coffee so they could get changed or dressed while they ate and I took them to the next job if they had one , or wherever they wanted to go . |
| 22 | It gives me special pleasure to be present at the wedding of my good friends Annabelle and Steven , because I introduced them at the Dashing Disco/Royal Hotel/Country Club and because I have known both of them for many years at school/the tennis club . |
| 23 | Gradually these dreams came less often until they stopped altogether , although I still do n't know why I had them in the first place . |
| 24 | I left them in the self-induced bedlam of a Harvey Nichols changing room , and promised to meet them later at the flat to examine our spoils , then went to meet Dee . |
| 25 | These are n't my lecture notes they I cribbed them off the social psychologist and made copies last night . |
| 26 | I mean every week I supplied them with a new stack of everybody wanted them . |