Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [pers pn] some " in BNC.

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1 I 've done nothing to deserve all your vicious insinuations — neither with Richard , nor with Adam , and if you ca n't bring yourself to believe in me the least you could do would be to grant them some scrap of integrity . ’
2 Hua 's policy of the ‘ two whatevers ’ , i.e. to ( 1 ) resolutely uphold whatever decisions Mao had made and ( 2 ) carry out whatever the Chairman had instructed , were to cause him some difficulties in a changing political environment .
3 So , for example , the lecture I 'm going to give you today is n't reflected at all in Arnold erm so er I think it 'd be helpful if I were to give you some indication of when there were and when there were n't .
4 What the students want her to do is to give them some basic facts that will enable them to read the novels as simple straightforward reflections of ‘ reality ’ , and to write simple , straightforward , exam-passing essays about them .
5 What the students want her to do is to give them some basic facts that will enable them to read the novels as simple straightforward reflections of ‘ reality ’ , and to write simple , straightforward , exam-passing essays about them .
6 Souness admitted : ‘ The temptation is to give him some sort of outing whether it 's half an hour or even a half .
7 What might be an idea is to get her some good blotters .
8 Mind , it took about eight weeks to achieve that desirable state , and all they did was to give me some tablets , good food , rest and lots of kindness .
9 He also gave us the name of an excellent brickie who had worked with d-i-yers before and was to give us some good advice , as well as building straight walls .
10 It was to take me some time longer to undergo the metamorphosis from a ‘ teacher ’ to a ‘ lecturer ’ .
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