Example sentences of "i [verb] 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 've got them on in one room , er I put them on a little bit |
| 11 | Unless I put them on the outside wood . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 14 | My best dress that she 'd sewed , my blouses with her embroidery : I put them in the hard square leather case . |
| 15 | I isolated them in a holding pool and treated them with salt baths , but they all died . |
| 16 | Having read both books for the first time , I really enjoyed them , but once I read them for the second time , I saw how little there really was to them . |
| 17 | If there are criticisms then I accept them with the same magnanimity which Martin claims I do not possess . |
| 18 | but there were the , I get them with the four big slices and one slice see |
| 19 | I observed them with the silent attention a tiger must give its approaching prey . |
| 20 | In winter I fill them with a rich and succulent mincemeat mixture . |
| 21 | I followed them onto a narrow , crumbling ledge above the ravine where the wind hurled us against the wall . |
| 22 | Her last words had been spoken very portentously , and I rewarded them with a dubious shrug . |
| 23 | Whenever I am working with someone I know and trust I ask them for a quick trim . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |