Example sentences of "[be] give away to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aunt Nessy had been one of those children who , in the days of large families , had been given away to elderly childless relatives to be brought up as a kind of maid-of-all-work and as an insurance against old age ; and what had upset her most when the parting came was having to leave her youngest sister , Beatrice , on whom she had lavished the mother-love within her — birthright of the children she was destined never to conceive . |
| 2 | There is widespread disbelief among Germany 's camp followers , then , that tonight 's match may not be a complete sell-out at Ibrox in spite of thousands of tickets having been given away to youth organisations . |
| 3 | Subject to certain conditions , the council 's flats would be given away to those who currently occupied them . |
| 4 | Around 50 congressmen have supported a resolution by House of Representatives majority leader , the Democrat Richard Gephardt , which warns that under the Dunkel plan , " national sovereignty to set domestic environmental , health , safety and labour standards will be given away to foreign countries " . |
| 5 | But having spent many years building up an effective distribution network , we see no reason why this network should be given away to our competitors . |
| 6 | And owning two British cars is quite good at a time when our motor industry is being given away to the Japanese , along with assorted golf courses . |
| 7 | What happened , people should have been paying in for ten years were suddenly taking out for ten years and these huge enormous sums and obviously the surplus which our members had helped to build up er and provide through the years and we 've got seventy-five year olds on you know , extremely low pensions hardly making ends meet , and there were vast sums of money being given away to the employees , that the employers took a contribution holiday and so they were n't paying into the fund either you know , and all the profits of B T as you all know were soaring and partially because of the use of the pension funds and this has greatly obviously erm upset our members and we feel very strongly about it . |