Example sentences of "given it to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The blood always belonged to God , for ‘ I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls … whosoever eateth any manner of blood , I will set my face against that soul … and will cut him off from among his people ’ ( Lev . |
| 2 | Charles had given it to her for a joke , suggesting she use it as a visual aid to introduce Saussurean linguistics to first-year undergraduates , holding the tube aloft to demonstrate that what is onomatopoeia in one language community may be obscenity in another . |
| 3 | If anything , by the end of the nineteenth century it was the expanding Polish population of the partition areas that needed living space , and the German Ostflucht might well have given it to them had it not been that Germany desperately needed to maintain the spluttering fiction of the drive to the east to divert and subvert internal political pressures . |
| 4 | I think we 're just jealous ; we just think , ‘ Well , he could have at least given it to me … ’ |
| 5 | She would , she said , have given it to them , if she 'd known what it was . |
| 6 | If the Council 's Temporary Press Officer , who had been appointed solely to deal with the alleged child abuse controversy , had been given such confidential information , she said , they wanted to know who had given it to him . |
| 7 | She is probably the least grasping person I 've ever met , and ever since she 's had pocket money she 's given it to cancer research . |
| 8 | I found it folded in a corner , still heavy with the perfume of the Sheikha who had given it to me . |
| 9 | He had given it to his youngest daughter , Margaret , when she trained as a nurse at Benedict 's just after the last World War . |
| 10 | Miriam had offered to do it for him , and so had Eliza and Margaret , and he could , of course , easily have given it to the dhobi in spite of his inflated prices . |
| 11 | Clearly , she did n't remember Jake had given it to Ruth , and Ruth said nothing ; she did n't want to talk about it . |
| 12 | Christine paused most meaningfully … ‘ she said as you had given it to her , sir . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd 've given it to you ; I was n't holding out . |
| 14 | And if the stranger had come to ask for his two pounds back , my sister would gladly have given it to him . |
| 15 | ‘ Who could have given it to her ? |
| 16 | Ivan had given it to him , with the wooden doll he 'd made for Valeria . |
| 17 | He 'd mapped out a route for them , and given it to her to follow . |
| 18 | Full of interest and packed with information and statistics , it was a great performance , but the Dean frankly acknowledged that credit for it was due to Charles Gorham who had prepared the paper and had given it to him to read . |
| 19 | But he 's given it to you in two different types of notation , and you need to know both . |
| 20 | According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle A ( s.a. 661 ) , Wulfhere harried Ashdown in 661 , in which year he is also said to have attacked the Isle of Wight and given it to Aethelwealh , king of the southern Saxons . |
| 21 | ‘ You might cook him a wonderful pie and then you 'd find he 'd given it to a drunken beggar , and no matter how kind you thought him after a while you 'd want to kill him . |
| 22 | How , then , could the government explain why he came to be in possession of a genuine birth certificate for a non-existent person without embarrassing the CIA , which had given it to him in the first place ? |
| 23 | He did n't remember being given that form ; they had probably not even given it to him in the first place . |
| 24 | ‘ And he did n't know what had given it to you … ’ |
| 25 | Or had she given it to him ? |
| 26 | It did have sentimental value ; her mother had given it to her for her twenty-first birthday . |
| 27 | She closed her book ; her papa had given it to her before she left for England and she blushed a little on remembering how short she had been with him when he had handed it over to her . |
| 28 | When she 'd finished and given it to him , they both sat at her tiny kitchen table . |
| 29 | He had asked Charles to post it for him , given it to him just hours before his fatal car drive … |
| 30 | ‘ I thought I 'd given it to you , ’ John says . |