Example sentences of "be [to-vb] them [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All you would have to do would be to lead them to the smugglers ' rendezvous and supervise the action . ’ |
| 2 | Now all they have time to do when they 're working on the site is to put them in the trays and wash them . |
| 3 | One way is to crawl up the staircase of preferment on your belly ; the other way is to kick them in the teeth . |
| 4 | Perhaps the most important point to be made about postverbals is to distinguish them from the adjectives in the last remaining position , the extraclausal adjectives , which occur in an identical sequence of syntactic elements , but which correspond to a different surface structure as in : ( 45 ) the two reformers persevered undaunted two stagehands appeared , breathless They have the different intensional structure : |
| 5 | The key to impressing Mum and Auntie Jean , and the best way to keep their tongues off the risible subject of my loin-cloth , which inevitably had them quaking with laughter , was to introduce them to the actors afterwards , telling them which sit-coms and police programmes they 'd seen them in . |