Example sentences of "and gave it " in BNC.

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1 Cameron folded the paper and gave it to James Menzies .
2 Aileen Gillies was all brisk agreement as she wrapped up some food in a cloth and gave it to them while her husband busied himself with laying the fire .
3 He finished typing , took the paper from the machine and gave it to her .
4 The elderly woman separated a skein of red silk from the bundle in her lap and gave it to her .
5 She unwound it and gave it to him .
6 She worked as a journalist on McClure 's magazine , and gave it up to write .
7 Thus the Immigration Acts , beginning with the 1962 Act ‘ took discrimination out of the market place and gave it the sanction of the state .
8 For a tenner , I snapped up a dinner-jacket for an office party , and gave it back afterwards .
9 His Dad pulled the arrow off the door and gave it to him .
10 He pulled a Marathon out of his pocket and gave it to Philip .
11 Lee took it out of his pocket and gave it to Philip .
12 He took a ten shilling note from his trouser pocket and gave it to Gloria .
13 Mungo walked across and gave it to him .
14 ‘ Surely we must take that arrow out , ’ Perkin said , and put his hand on the shaft and gave it a tug .
15 He took off his glove , signed it and gave it to the boy .
16 Something put his hand on Anne 's bottom , but did not seem to mind too much when she peeled it off and gave it back to him .
17 But the crisis nature of so many decisions to admit , and the compulsion involved in the route into care reinforced this negative view , and gave it the features of a self-fulfilling prophecy .
18 And gave it shelter at the closing Day :
19 He ran down the corridor to fetch his own letter home and gave it to Murray , taking this small offer of service as a token that their friendship would continue .
20 Much as she would have liked to stay , Penny had to hurry home with her budgie , but she learned later that Brownie Owl got the puppy out of the tree and took it home and gave it food .
21 But when Lucius Titius survived his will he sold his office , exacted a price , and gave it to the person to whom in his will he wished the office or its price to be given .
22 The team developed a system to amplify and record to monitor these electric pulses , and gave it the name ‘ VAN box ’ , from their initials .
23 In 1739 , he bought a small estate called Drumdow near Trabboch , in Ayrshire , and gave it to Hugh and Bel McGuire .
24 I put it carefully back in its envelope and gave it back to Dinwiddie , who slipped it into the pile .
25 Susan scribbled the postcard and gave it to her with a sigh .
26 From it she took a shilling and gave it to Sarah .
27 Realizing the kicks that many men get out of listening to women mouthing obscenities , he set up a unique telephone service to cater for the need and gave it the name Just Filmz Inc .
28 Mercer produced a key and gave it to me , explaining that I would come to a locked door .
29 He nodded at the reply he heard , took off the headset and gave it to me .
30 Quinn pushed open the street-door , which opened outwards , closed it behind him , dropped a wooden wedge he had carved in the privacy of the toilet under the sill and gave it a hard kick .
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