Example sentences of "[prep] give [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 Dead Certain had been as badly affected as any , but Elsworth simply would not run a horse of that class in such a race unless he believed it was capable of giving of its best .
2 In giving to their children what they felt they needed and did not have themselves , they obtain gratification and solace .
3 The control of the landlords and the labradores over municipal government completed their monopoly by giving into their hands the only other surplus land — the municipal commons — which became , according to reforming bureaucrats , ‘ the private patrimony of the town counsellors ’ .
4 Please help us in our work , in our 50th anniversary year , by giving to our collectors or by sending a donation to the Appeals Director , RAF Association , War Memorial Building , 9–13 Waring Street , Belfast BT1 2DW .
5 Leith could see at once that he did n't seem to be too enamoured that she , by giving in her notice , had just taken away his trump card .
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