Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [verb] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I shall work in , because I mean I 'm the one who 's been pushing to get them on this .
2 We 're going to push them on this one , Clarac .
3 Because we all try to twist circumstances in such a way that they conform with our subconscious picture of ourselves , those who see themselves as permanent victims will automatically seek out people who are going to treat them as such .
4 But if we are going to accuse them of this then we had better also accuse them of inventing the doctrine of the Trinity , for although the New Testament provides evidence for such a cardinal Christian belief it does not set it out in a clear or distinct fashion .
5 When a colleague discovered that I was coming here to do this er she saw it as laughable and she also saw it as something that I would prefer to keep quiet from my colleagues and tried a bit of moral blackmail on me as well to say I 'm going to tell them about that if you do n't them about this sort of thing .
6 As vesting day , 1 April 1948 , approached , the shape of the organisations which were to take over the industry , and the men who were going to lead them at national and regional level were known .
7 You were going to sell them at one and tuppence each .
8 This whole issue about er children , junior church , other activities , children being compromised , adults finding it difficult to insist or persuade their children , that they should be in junior church , when other folks are trying to tempt them in other directions .
9 Its owner , Okan Guney , has been trying to breed them at this home in Kidlington for two years .
10 And the person who was going to lead them to this golden opportunity was the new driving force who had come to the fore and already earned himself the nickname of ‘ the Eddie Shah of News on Sunday ’ — Chris Walsh .
11 Now originally the trip was going to take them through many middle eastern countries including Jordan and Israel , er have you had to change your plans at all Andrew , it sounds as though that might not be the ideal place to be going at the moment ?
12 She looked right at O and Boy when she said this and it was as if she was trying to scare them in particular , even as if she was trying to frighten them away from each other , as if she was saying , to them , and to all of us , this is what you have to go through , right ?
13 Iran gave the impression that it believed Iraq was planning to replace them with single-buoy moorings ( SBMs ) , a subject on which rumour had been rife since 1980 .
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