Example sentences of "[pron] give to " in BNC.

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31 I raised over £4OO in total , which I gave to Cancer Research and the Multiple Sclerosis Society . ’
32 The one I recorded for you I gave to your
33 I know that was you but y you do n't , I mean I remember u the fire we used to have here and it was n't till I gave it to a friend , I mean we kept here for a year alright , lucky enough , we did n't use it anyway I gave to a friend who doing car boot , I found it in the attic an he said to me Brenda , he said , did you ever use this fire ?
34 It has provisions which establish a Consumer Protection Advisory Committee and which give to it , to the Director and to the Secretary of State , certain functions in relation to consumer affairs .
35 The river was generally utilised to make water defences and it is these which give to the châteaux the picturesque quality which so many possess .
36 The medieval choir school also survived — though renamed by Henry VIII ‘ the Kynges Newe Grammer Scole of Seynt Marie Oterey ’ — and like many provincial grammar schools throughout the land it continued to provide a modest education of the kind which gave to the youthful Shakespeare his ‘ small Latin , and less Greek ’ .
37 The lover 's certainty that his love was the source of everything good and worthwhile in his life — the belief which lay behind the radiantly lyrical love poems of Bernard de Ventadour , some of which were composed at the court of Henry II and Eleanor — was a belief which gave to woman , as man 's partner and sometimes , in this context at least , the dominant partner , a place at the heart of things which had not been hers before .
38 In this context town planning was a beneficiary of a number of important developments , which gave to the evolving discipline and profession a distinctive recurrent theme , that of a regional perspective .
39 In A.D. 313 the Emperor Constantine issued the Edict of Milan which gave to Christians the right to practise their religion openly on an equal basis with other religions .
40 In A.D. 313 the Roman Emperor Constantine issued the Edict of Milan which gave to Christians the legal right to practise their religion openly on an equal basis with other religions and , after A.D. 325 , Christianity became the official religion of the empire .
41 All the energy and drive which gave to that campaign so electric a character in the first weeks of this year must find outlets for the same fundamental objectives in new , and yet familiar channels .
42 This was the name that Hitler himself gave to a weekend of murder that was the culmination of a power struggle within the Nazi Party .
43 Yet it is structure which gives to any undertaking its distinctive shape and identity .
44 In his very first book his admonitions about the indiscriminate use of stock , even of fine stock , were news , and good news : Do not spoil the special taste of the gravy obtained in the roasting of beef , veal , mutton or pork by adding to it the classical stock which gives to all meats the same deplorable taste of soup .
45 What I hope to have shown , which is consistent with a certain tentativeness about what has been said , and with incompleteness , is that we do have a grasp of both dependent and independent conditionals , which grasp can be clarified and which gives to us an explicit understanding of the seven causal connections that were set out .
46 This displacement imparts to law a certain universality which gives to it symbolic efficacy in removing , or at least concealing , its arbitrariness .
47 Which gives to us , while we live in Your created world ,
48 The organized community or social group which gives to the individual his unity of self may be called the ‘ generalized other ’ .
49 This is the Court of Chancery : which has its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every shire ; which has its worn-out lunatic in every madhouse , and its dead in every churchyard ; which has its ruined suitor , with his slipshod heels and threadbare dress , borrowing and begging through the round of every man 's acquaintance ; which gives to monied might , the means abundantly of wearying out the right ; which so exhausts finances , patience , courage , hope : so overthrows the brain and breaks the heart ; that there is not an honourable man among its practitioners who would not give — who does not often give — the warning , " Suffer any wrong that can be done you , rather than come here " .
50 As we saw when considering the interactionist critique of positivism , there are two particularly important reasons for this : first , the processes of definition and application produce the data specifying the nature of , and the trends in , crime , and the characteristics of criminals that are subsequently used by criminologists to construct their theories and explanations ; second , these processes of definition and application have consequences for the meanings , implications and justifications that those ‘ labelled ’ by them give to their own actions .
51 What name have you given to the Water Hen which migrates to us yearly — or which did migrate last year and the year before .
52 What choice have you given to the hundred thousand people , hundred thousand people , whose mortgages have been repossessed , who have been made homeless by the policies of your Government ?
53 What choice have you given to the seventy five families that tonight are in bed and breakfast in this city with children ?
54 How much time each week do you give to finding out what your partner is thinking and feeling over matters which concern him or her ?
55 Would you give to a dying woman as a last memory the sight of our camp ?
56 What words of advice would you give to the Italians who are embarking on a similar process of privatisation in museums which Britain underwent in the 1980s ?
57 It is probably too delicate to ask the principal the final question : How much of your time will you give to instructing me ? — but you may be able to find out the probabilities from any other articled clerks in the firm .
58 If this card is an instruction card it must be obeyed by the person asking the question , the instruction card is then placed at the bottom of the pack , instruction cards are ren randomly mixed with the question cards and can change directions of play , make you give to the player to the left one of your cards etcetera , if a player has more than it does n't say .
59 What advice can you give to anybody thinking about applying to university in nineteen eighty-five ?
60 Asked whether people who give to the WWF to protect such things as pandas , whales and rainforests realized that their money is also being used in this way , in particular to support the bloodsport of angling , he said he had never thought of angling as a bloodsport and donations had been listed in their magazine .
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