Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [to-vb] them [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew well enough that convincing politicians was a tough job , so his plan was to present them with an informed and insistent electorate of the future . |
| 2 | The aim was to put them on the spot — or at least to impress the Inspector with your knowledge and concern . |
| 3 | His aim was to reconvert them to a Unitarian Christianity devoid of superstition . |
| 4 | My first thought was to put them in the dustbin . |
| 5 | Does it really matter that those were early days , when the joke on campus was that the only way to kill anyone with a laser was to hit them over the head with it ? |
| 6 | I mean , we told you that he was planning what he called a tactful chat with the main protagonists , but I thought the idea was to lull them into a sense of false security . |