Example sentences of "give [pron] [adv] to [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wanted the world to go away and let her live with her lover in a secret palace , give herself over to his embrace , to be beyond responsibility and care and hard work and sanity . |
| 2 | Give it back to your millionaire ? ’ |
| 3 | He prepared to give himself over to whatever fate Lucifer had in store for him . |
| 4 | The pros play in the par-three for fun , to give something back to their public in return for the millions of dollars they earn from golf . |
| 5 | He kept no symbols of his religion to give him away to his comrades . |
| 6 | Be prepared to centre yourself in revery , to give yourself up to your memories just as your sleeping self gives itself up to a dream . |
| 7 | ‘ A considerable degree of work has been done in putting the city first and giving it back to its citizens , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Now , as from the times of childhood , she rode Fenna , seated in the deep hollow of the meeting place of scaled neck , veined wing and rising battlement of spine ; a throne protected from the great gale of his flight , as safe as the rocky cradle secures the foetal child , leaning back towards the bumpy spine as she had leant before , she gave herself over to their journey . |
| 9 | It has overtones of an Old Testament story in which the prophet Elijah also raised a widow 's son from death and ‘ gave him back to his mother ’ ( Luke 7:15 ; 1 Kings 17:23 ) . |
| 10 | Greimas maps onto his diagram Propp 's basic narrative chiasmus : traitor ravishes king 's daughter and transfers her elsewhere to hide her , hero finds somewhere king 's daughter and gives her back to her parents . |
| 11 | An owner , who 'd clearly been mistreating it , gave it back to its breeders . |