Example sentences of "[be] [verb] them a " in BNC.
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1 | The great thing about the game is that you 're teaching them a little bit of culture |
2 | ‘ We 're doing them a favour because legislation will catch up with them in the end . |
3 | You 're giving them a a load of old flannel and trying to trying to trying to persuade them that something 's true you 're deceiving them . |
4 | We 're giving them a chance to show us what they can do . ’ |
5 | er we do n't have to po er , you see , it 's to do with school anyway , but they 're giving them a packed lunch so I believe . |
6 | Well I keep telling you to move that away from the house I said talking about your rising crime , you 're giving them a ladder to use as well ! |
7 | Rubberneck knew them all , pious lives ; he had been lectured them a hundred times , even if he still could not fix a face to a saint , or only ( he felt an affinity ) St Francis . |
8 | People who think they 're being persecuted always think people are paying them a great deal of attention so they come to believe that they must in a sense be very important people , ’ he said . |
9 | ‘ The point is that I am teaching them a difference , ’ Diana told a friend . |
10 | Let herself go a bit — ye get that with women whose men are giving them a hard time , and who hav'na found a way of getting their retaliation in first . ’ |
11 | If as part of the task you specify the effect the programme is to have on the audience , you are building in the criteria by which that audience can judge the programme and you are giving them a purpose in viewing . |
12 | You can accept payments from passengers in your car if you are giving them a lift for social or other similar purposes . |
13 | You can accept payments from passengers in your car if you are giving them a lift for social or other similar purposes . |
14 | You can accept payments from passengers in your car if you are giving them a lift for social or other similar purposes . |
15 | I think the time has probably passed now , all the schools have got their own budgets , they 've got their own builders who are giving them a good service , and I doubt whether this is the time to resurrect that , especially with local government review not far off , and the future of a county-wide D S O in some doubt , when it comes to local government review . |
16 | If we provide teachers with only one method , we are doing them a disservice . |
17 | He argued he had been giving them a practical demonstration of his work as a ‘ psycho-sexual ’ counsellor and doctor . |
18 | He just wished she could have been spared them a little longer . |
19 | it must be costing them a fortune , when every time they move , they alter 'ouse , they decorate and put new carpets down and furniture |
20 | Sooner or later , you 'll be paying them a visit ( see Chapter 4 on choosing subjects and class options ) . |
21 | I shall be sending them a donation in appreciation of this service and if any other walkers in the Lakes read this , perhaps they too might like to help . |
22 | To read these words as ‘ held in any other computer ’ , as the trial judge had done , would be to give them a meaning quite different from their plain and natural meaning . |
23 | To read those words in that way , in our judgment , would be to give them a meaning quite different from their plain and natural meaning . |
24 | By moving out of the way , we 'll be giving them a clear run . |
25 | The ‘ opposition ’ governors imagine themselves to be more important than they really are ; they have state , not federal , responsibilities ; their comments on federal matters should therefore not be regarded as of primary importance ; and , if they were reported fully at all times , this would be giving them a greater prominence in national affairs than they deserve . |
26 | Following a long and hard season for its own loco 's Sydney and No. 24 the Broadland Line will be giving them a well earned rest for the next couple of weeks . |
27 | Should we be giving them a wide berth for fear of rampant Rottweilers lunging at our wing mirrors ? |
28 | Would you tell them that I 'll be giving them a ring between half past six and quarter past seven . |
29 | You will , however , be doing them a service if you collect your specimens from a field about to be cut for hay , from a hedgerow bordering a field about to be sprayed or a site being cleared for building work . |
30 | If you could tell your clients that they 're on a very sticky wicket here and that I wo n't be the only woman journalist who 's utterly repulsed , you 'll be doing them a service ! |