Example sentences of "to teach [pers pn] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small children can sometimes be persuaded to eat cow cake in the same way that old people will eat cat food , but the chief result of all this farming was to produce huge food mountains which we could then refuse to give to the Third World , or to the socialists of Eastern Europe , in order to teach them the error of their ways . |
| 2 | Peculiar to Children , was not to teach bad Latin , harsh French , as if the children were ‘ a parcel of Parrots or Magpies ’ , but ‘ to teach them the Government of themselves , their Passions and Appetites ’ . |
| 3 | Perhaps the most useful thing she did was to teach me the language , so that in a few days I could speak it quite well . |
| 4 | I pointed out that his voice had certainly ceased to be soprano , but he pestered me to teach him the solo for the next eisteddfod . |
| 5 | One evening I reluctantly agreed to go back to school and attempt to teach him the solo . |
| 6 | Only last year , on the instructions of Luther Reynolds , David had brought the boy out of the mines and begun to teach him the way of business ; Matthew often accompanied him on his rounds , and though he made little attempt to befriend David , the boy worked , and learned , and spent so many hours closeted in the ‘ den ’ with the old man , that Beth was obliged to voice her concern . |
| 7 | One day , to escape heavy rain he wandered into a tavern called the ‘ Spotted Dog ’ which was kept by Joe Parrish , a veteran fighter , who became impressed with the young lad — then aged 16 — and began to teach him the science of the ring . |
| 8 | It would be pointless to teach him the effect of the e-marker if he 's not clear about which symbols represent which sounds . |
| 9 | She asked him to teach her the trick , but he said that she was not ready yet . |
| 10 | The idea was to teach us the beauty of the English language . |