Example sentences of "[conj] give [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The ones that gave of carbon dioxide when we put an acid to them . |
| 32 | He led her in through yet another heavy door : they entered a wide , tiled hallway that gave onto wide , tiled rooms . |
| 33 | He drew himself upright and walked confidently through the bit of the lobby that gave onto the Cocktail Lounge , where ruddy-faced men stood panting and laughing , sleeves rolled up , ties loose , queuing for drinks or holding trays of them , laughing loudly in deep voices . |
| 34 | It is as a native that he accepts the River God , and it is the subjection of Man that gives to Man his dignity . |
| 35 | Yet when a man 's life is in balance , mirth is a spice and exhilarator that gives to life an added delight . |
| 36 | In a similar fashion , all the representative bodies of the police — ACPO , the Superintendents ' Association , and the Police Federation — were outraged at the creation of the Crown Prosecution Service in the Prosecution of Offences Act in the mid-1980s ; for one area of police power in the courts had been removed at one fell swoop and given to another arm of the executive . |
| 37 | An 84 acre commercial conifer woodland near Exmoor has been bought by Paul McCartney and given to the League Against Cruel Sports as a sanctuary against hunting . |
| 38 | That the boy was just simple and given to playing stupid jokes . |
| 39 | And the time is long past when the question of who deserves what was taken out of the hands of politicians and time-serving bureaucrats and given to a genuinely independent and truly meritorious body which might set about trying to put honour back into the honours system . |
| 40 | The Sunday Telegraph was allowed to read and take notes from a copy of the report , which was taken to Lusaka , the Zambian capital , and given to Oliver Tambo , then president-in-exile of the ANC . |
| 41 | ‘ Well , not … wrong , exactly , ’ Mrs Dooley lowered her voice and adopted a conspiratorial air , not easy for someone as broad as she was tall , and given to smiles more often than frowns . |
| 42 | When I look back , I 'm inclined to think that we were both , in some ways , a couple of prigs , and given to spiritual pride ! |
| 43 | Backless Hill , to the north of the loch , was the eighteenth-century lair of a Caithness ‘ Robin Hood ’ , said to have robbed the rich and given to the poor . |
| 44 | They Kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians ’ . |
| 45 | Ferry himself would probably tell you that in it 's search for perfection , the motor industry has taken from the driver and given to the machine . |
| 46 | The areas of the five Saxon burhs were reorganised into Norman landships , the rapes , and given to the more powerful and trusty lay barons . |
| 47 | This original small port and fishing village had been down on the marshes adjoining the Rother , not far from Rye , and given to Fécamp Abbey by Cnut . |
| 48 | In fact 41-year-old Hesketh was arrogant , self-important and given to ‘ infantile tantrums and eye-popping rudeness ’ . |
| 49 | The whole lot is then regurgitated and given to mugs to drink . |
| 50 | So Mains did gain the reputation of being some rather grim eminence locked in his southern castle and given to humourless comment about the rugby matters of the day . |
| 51 | It was an Oriental table , donated by her mother who was an actress of the old school and given to lavishness of gesture . |
| 52 | He is sullen and morose , and given to bouts of screaming rage during which no one can reason with him . |
| 53 | This report should be clipped to the form NEWOED1 and given to the lexicographers . |
| 54 | As he says , quoting from Freud 's Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis , If we started life as " a chaos , a cauldron full of seething excitations " , with " no organization " and given to satisfying our wishes by hallucination , it is hard to imagine how we could begin to experience the external world in such a way as to learn adaptation from it . |
| 55 | The difficulty came when one imagined these numbers written on the spine of a book , or on the can of a filmstrip or an audio-cassette , and given to an untrained person to shelve or file in a sequence . |
| 56 | There is some evidence that an officer of the county court has said that a committal order on Form N111 ( not Form N79 ) was signed and given to the police officers escorting Mr. Butler to prison . |
| 57 | In Elizabethan days , rosemary shoots were tied with coloured ribbon , tipped with gold and given to guests at weddings to symbolize love and faithfulness , and on New Year 's Day it was a gift for guests , together with an orange stuck with cloves . |
| 58 | I wanted to say , as I believed , that the consul was an English person of good sense with a proper grasp of facts , but I was too well brought up to state unequivocally that all foreigners , including Nour , were superstitious and given to exaggeration and unnecessary alarms . |
| 59 | Edward was not fond of Sandra ; she was a prissy little girl , always fastidiously turned out and given to exclamations of disgust and revulsion . |
| 60 | In his will , made as a parishioner of St Olave Jewry , London , dated 7 January , and proved 28 February 1633 , he made monetary bequests to his four daughters and two sons , allowed the use of his professional papers to his apprentices , and gave a two-volume book of statutes to ‘ my noble friend Sir William Paddy [ q.v. ] … to be by him put and given to the library of St John 's College in Oxford ’ . |