Example sentences of "give [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Cowboys may wear them out of necessity and convicts in the USA may have been given them as part of their uniform , but one thing 's for sure , whatever the reason , most people simply would n't live without them . |
| 32 | Eighth , they plant churches because ‘ God wants YWAM missionaries to build into local congregations the spiritual foundations ’ he has given them as a mission . |
| 33 | He warmed the pot , instinctively found the tea in the caddy Frances 's Auntie Pamela had given them as a wedding present , and brewed up . |
| 34 | She 'd given them as a wedding present , she said , and never seen them used . |
| 35 | After reports in the Washington Post that the ICRC and UN field workers had hired several thousand local " mercenaries " to protect food distribution operations , the ICRC on May 8 issued a statement to the effect that " local relief committees " organized by the clans and sub-clans were acting as a " police force " ; a small amount of the food aid was to be given them as " food for work " . |
| 36 | Why should the girls have to you know , lose their savings and money that money that people have given them as gifts just because , you know they do n't want to give out any money ! |
| 37 | When you 've made your gifts to the various museums , you have given them with the stipulation that none of the works of art may ever be sold . |
| 38 | Most youths and even small boys wore a strip of hide around their wrists or ankles : this had been given them with appropriate blessing to bring them success when they became warriors . |
| 39 | Uncle Walter had given them to him , Philip . |
| 40 | But once I 'd given them to him I never saw them again so I imagine he must have burnt them . |
| 41 | I 've just given them to you as background , and because you 're lovely . ’ |
| 42 | Some boy give me a single red rose and I 'd say , What you done with the other four , given them to your other girls ? |
| 43 | I 've given them to that solicitor that |
| 44 | He told her things she had not known about him — good things , acts of generosity — it came out that it was he who had got Simon on to my pictures , the Douanier and the Gris ; he had practically given them to him . |
| 45 | Er I 've done the slips and given them to Margaret to be . |
| 46 | After his death Mona had found the keys on the floor in the secretary 's room and given them to Maureen . |
| 47 | Maureen said : ‘ I did n't think about them again until that psychic woman asked for them , but it was only after I had given them to her I realized they were n't his at all . |
| 48 | His father would have given them to Oxfam , or to a jumble sale . |
| 49 | I had given them to Menna when he first left to take up his post . |
| 50 | ‘ I wanted to give them to his wife but she is n't here so I 've given them to him instead , ’ she said . |
| 51 | I get everything that 's going and now god 's given them to me . |
| 52 | He has already given them to us . |
| 53 | He 's given them to us that 's why ! |
| 54 | Francis Carco , who was a friend who had bought Modigliani 's work before the crowd , also bought Modigliani 's paintings , but he was given them for what he himself described as a ridiculously cheap price . |
| 55 | That is what the Holy Spirit is given them for . |
| 56 | Because er , he he he had given them of of how he had become a Christian , he had become a minister of Jesus Christ and so on , he says , for this reason I suffer these things , but I am not ashamed , for I know whom I have believed . |
| 57 | There is a chief superintendent in RUC Headquarters whose sole responsibility is community relations , and no complaints were made about the level of managerial support given them by Easton 's senior officers , something unusual for ordinary policemen and women in the RUC , and particularly so compared to community policing sections in other forces ( Grimshaw and Jefferson 1987 ) . |
| 58 | In 1896 , for example , the year in which Radnor Park Congregational Chapel in Folkestone spent £7,000 and Albion Church in Ashton-under-Lyne spent £50,000 on new buildings , Congregationalists at Rothbury in Northumberland built a new chapel for £1,400 but they were fortunate in having the land given them by Lord Armstrong , the arms magnate . |
| 59 | The desired religion therefore , must be acceptable , on the one hand to those who follow it because their belief is founded on logic-induced conviction , and on the other hand to those who come to believe , because tentative faith has been given them by others and who have reached conviction through experience . |
| 60 | Chrissie admits that these came from the store restaurant 's stocks , but claims that she was given them by Fred , the chef , in return for her helping out over her lunch break in the kitchen , which was short handed . |