Example sentences of "be [to-vb] them [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To flee would be to award them victory — and , for the first time , she knew a burning determination to win . |
| 2 | The people I have talked to , who were skinheads during this period , show such a pride and passion for their style , that it is to do them justice that these pages are written . |
| 3 | If your efforts at feeding and cultivation are designed to make your roses happy , there are plenty of creatures and other life forms about whose objective is to give them hell . |
| 4 | To pay the bank daily to do things with it and then to start adding to those costs which a bank charges by using all these sophisticated methods when we can in fact do what most staff want , which is to give them cash in a little brown envelope on a Thursday . |
| 5 | Pious it may sound , but I do actually believe that there is a sense in which a group of students do collectively know much of what they need to know about learning : the problem of the PGCE year is to give them confidence that they know ; and the experience that knowing they can successfully act on their knowledge . |
| 6 | The first thing to do is to give them food and shelter , medicine , and chance to take a bath , some clothing . |
| 7 | One way of legitimising coincidences , of course , is to call them ironies . |
| 8 | The most important thing is to stop them building , storing and using these weapons . ’ |
| 9 | Unfortunately , the reported effect on some of the older generation is to make them regret having lived so long and apologize for their need to call on more services than do younger people ( Norman 1987b ) . |
| 10 | And what a sight it was to see them day after day , night after night , huddled in corners , crowded around drinks machines , arguing and agreeing , debating and disclaiming . |
| 11 | The idea was to give them food that was nourishing but not particularly appetizing . |
| 12 | In a sense they , they were back now in , in the situation that they , they needed support from the peasantry quickly and surely the way to do that was to offer them land , to give them land reform because rent reduction interest ra interest rate reduction is not enough . |