Example sentences of "teach [pers pn] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When an animal is brought in , especially an otter which is very nervous , we 've taught them the basic techniques of how to save them . |
| 2 | Your background , your pedigree , yes you you you 've been brought up in a , possibly your fa your your parents , they 've taught you the right way , they are thrilled pieces , or they were if if they ma , they may well have been de dead by that time , but they were thrilled to pieces when you as a pharisee became a teacher , and a ruler , a leader amongst your people ! |
| 3 | I guess he taught me the right way , because after a couple of years , when I heard something , I knew what it was before any intellectual wheels were turning in my head . |
| 4 | He was a long distance lorry driver but he knew how to dress and taught me the golden rule ‘ Do n't mix your stripes ’ . ’ |
| 5 | They listened to people who knew nothing about the game , to people who exploited them , people who taught them the wrong things . |
| 6 | I usually stand at the shallow end after she 's finished teaching me the floating bit , and watch her have her swim . |
| 7 | I was teaching them the fine art of drinking Tequila Slammers , one of the fastest ways of getting spifflicated known to man . |
| 8 | Teach me the glorious lesson that occasionally it is possible that I may be mistaken . |
| 9 | Has no one ever taught you the gracious art of how to accept help when it 's offered ? ’ |
| 10 | At seventeen he joined a travelling band of gypsies who taught him the finer skills of pickpocketing until an accident to his hand six years later put paid to what would have been a very lucrative career . |
| 11 | Perhaps Richard had the best of it : at Queen Eleanor 's court he encountered troubadours and intellectuals who taught him the social graces . |
| 12 | A SIX-YEAR-OLD boy died in hospital after being hit by a car while his father taught him the Green Cross Code . |
| 13 | Esther Allan dusted off the music and taught her the best songs from Sugar and Spite . |
| 14 | I did not see the value in teaching him the English equivalents of these words , and merely reminded him to talk in English . |
| 15 | They teach him the dynamic techniques of his art in order that he may be able to apply them , perhaps in a life-or-death predicament , on the streets . |
| 16 | Our instructors taught us the correct names for the parts of the Topper . |
| 17 | His long experience of bird watching in the hills of Arran had taught him the best vantage points . |
| 18 | It was decided to teach him the final lesson , which would also warn off other émigrés who thought that they were secure in the West and could say what they liked about Ceauşescu . |
| 19 | Then our dance teacher began to teach us the basic steps . |
| 20 | Well , he does come down — not to thump us but to love us in Jesus , to teach us the Christian way , and to take our sins and failures to the cross and to rise again in triumph for us all . |
| 21 | Nowadays he teaches them the cowardly art of aggressive selling to the elderly and disabled . |
| 22 | Only trial and error will teach you the exact amount needed for the number of babies you have . |