Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But they wo n't be able to get word out that he 's been to see them . ’ |
| 2 | The only plausible way historically to guarantee the authority of such rights has been to see them as the issue of a divine law-giver . |
| 3 | And after that she seemed happy the rest of the way , saying how lovely it had been to see them even for such a short time and how she 'd come down again when she could , but it was such a long way and the trains were so crowded with soldiers and she had had to take two whole days off from the ambulance station . |
| 4 | He walked to Hause Point twice a day and apart from that … he wrote one or two letters and delighted her father by franking one of his ; he waited for him to get a full free day so that they could go char fishing ; he declined all invitations and although he was irreproachably welcoming when Mr Skelton and his daughter made a surprise detour on one of their visits up the valley from Lorton to call in at the Fish , Mary thought that she could tell that he was happier to see them depart than he had been to see them arrive . |
| 5 | We are improving what the employment service has to offer in the new integrated offices , as all hon. Members who have been to see them will know . |
| 6 | you 've been to see them |
| 7 | You are to instruct them not to respond to Moslem provocation . |
| 8 | The thermal shock of zero degrees water is so intense no one can tell how pleased you are to see them . |
| 9 | John 's aim had been to frighten them so that they would not again attack Derek . |
| 10 | And if you are to provide them with decent motives for a murder , and decently different ones as well , you will need room to do it in . |
| 11 | An alternative explanation for price rises , for example , has been to relate them to the amount of money in circulation or the bullion value of the coinage . |
| 12 | Schumpeter produces at least two definitions , closely similar in spirit to one another : ‘ Democracy means only that the people have the opportunity of accepting or refusing the men who are to rule them ’ . |
| 13 | It seems , however , always to have been associated by those who employed it with the idea that Britain 's historic policy towards its dependencies had been to lead them along the path towards self-government — a belief which had for its principal inspiration the history of Canada since the Durham report . |
| 14 | And whether there are any points of unification at all and if so what they are to identify them and so on . |
| 15 | Mark Kiff has been to weigh them up |
| 16 | The central question , then , is not whether or not we should tolerate the rules and conventions , the systems of thought , the preconceptions that regulate enquiry and instruction — for if our enterprise is to have any significance at all we have to — but which rules , conventions , and preconceptions are likely to offer us the most relevant and reliable set of bearings for our work , and how we are to use them so that we can allow for their modification , or even their complete replacement , when new insights and experiences need to be accommodated . |
| 17 | All this is often put forward to support the extended use of audio-visual and other media in schools and colleges : we are to use them because they are so ubiquitously there . |
| 18 | Quite by chance in collecting material for I have come across a cousin who is the communications and Public relations person at so I am to put them in touch with each other as the one in London has just had a letter from another in Vancouver trying to do family research . |
| 19 | The carers are now due to go to London for a meeting with North West MPs and national charities who are to give them their support . |
| 20 | The answer until now has been to put them in geriatric units . |
| 21 | 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 : |
| 22 | As an apologist , he seems totally blind to the fact that the New Testament is just such a collection of old books , which require , if we are to understand them aright , patience and a willingness to listen to scholars who have meditated for a long time on the nature of the ( often quite puzzling and contradictory ) material which they contain . |
| 23 | What ecstasy it would be to see them really move … |
| 24 | If the huts are relatively few and insubstantial , then the best solution will be to demolish them and reinstate the gardens and grounds . |
| 25 | And the first priority must be to find them suitable replacement housing . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | All you would have to do would be to lead them to the smugglers ' rendezvous and supervise the action . ’ |
| 28 | The best precaution would be to deposit them with the bank . |
| 29 | It may be to destroy them all and there are situations where that can happen . |
| 30 | The more entrenched unwelcome developments have become , the harder it will be to reverse them . |