Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] give it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I carried mine , then I put it in my pocket and further along the route I gave it to someone in the crowd . ’ |
| 2 | I did n't approve of what he was doing , but if I refused his money I would be more and more visible , so I took it , and when he had gone off in relief back towards the dining car I gave it to the barman . |
| 3 | The Queen who gave it to Andy and Fergie as a wedding present has made it clear to her advisors that the Duchess should not be forced to leave , as long as the she adheres to her agreement not to talk about the marriage break up . |
| 4 | And the second man who pursued me did so to gain a large fortune , to spend on his long-term mistress and their children , and to laugh at the silly girl and her father who gave it to him . |
| 5 | People buy in three different modes , visual and audible or a connective touchy , feel mode , if he wants to be touchy feeling you give it to him . |
| 6 | ‘ Who was the man who gave it to you ? |
| 7 | Firstly , there are the so-called pronouns of laziness ( Geach , 1962 : 125ff ) , as in Karttunen 's well-known sentence ( see Lyons , 1977a : 673ff ) : ( 93 ) The man who gave his paycheck to his wife was wiser than the man who gave it to his mistress where it is not co-referential with his paycheck , but refers to what a repetition of that NP would have referred to ( namely the paycheck of the man whose mistress got it ) if it had occurred in place of it . |
| 8 | In that state he gave it to the boy who set off on his half-mile walk . |
| 9 | Either you have lost the letter or you did n't have it to lose in the first place , in which case the king never gave it to you , i which case he gave it to me , in which case I would have put it into my inside top pocket in which case ( Calmly producing the letter ) … it will be … here . |
| 10 | In one statute ‘ confidential information ’ means information disclosure of which is forbidden by statute or by the civil servant who gave it to the local authority . |
| 11 | That year he gave it under cover to a Milan publisher , Feltrinelli , and in 1958 it appeared in English . |
| 12 | In fact , on all the windows wired up now , and I walked up to him , and I just said , would you like to give to me , son , and he turned round and looked at me , and to my great surprise he gave it to me . |
| 13 | Next time you give it to me ! |