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 | This takes place in late November and on two separate evenings we fill our largest lecture theatre with local school children from both sides of the county , sometimes a little bit further afield , and that means that we 're giving them an illustrated lecture by one of our more distinguished colleagues , and we entertain and inform , I think , something like eight hundred school children every year in that alone . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ The point is that I am teaching them a difference , ’ Diana told a friend . |
| 11 | The students , both in this series of interviews , and in another pre-structured evaluation interview , said that the main advantage of the course in information retrieval had been to give them an overall , systematic view of scientific information flow , which helped them to understand how to look for the information they required : |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | You can accept payments from passengers in your car if you are giving them a lift for social or other similar purposes . |
| 15 | You can accept payments from passengers in your car if you are giving them a lift for social or other similar purposes . |
| 16 | You can accept payments from passengers in your car if you are giving them a lift for social or other similar purposes . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If we provide teachers with only one method , we are doing them a disservice . |
| 19 | He argued he had been giving them a practical demonstration of his work as a ‘ psycho-sexual ’ counsellor and doctor . |
| 20 | He just wished she could have been spared them a little longer . |
| 21 | it must be costing them a fortune , when every time they move , they alter 'ouse , they decorate and put new carpets down and furniture |
| 22 | Sooner or later , you 'll be paying them a visit ( see Chapter 4 on choosing subjects and class options ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | By moving out of the way , we 'll be giving them a clear run . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Should we be giving them a wide berth for fear of rampant Rottweilers lunging at our wing mirrors ? |
| 30 | Would you tell them that I 'll be giving them a ring between half past six and quarter past seven . |