Example sentences of "[pers pn] give [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If the adventurers are a talkative bunch , you might allow the Oracle to reminisce fondly over the counsel he gave to Drachenfels over the years . |
| 32 | Whatever was said , Becker clearly seems to have changed his mind about the credibility and validity of the Grand Slam Cup , judging by a recent interview he gave to Suddeutsche Zeitung , one of Germany 's most influential newspapers . |
| 33 | ‘ I want a team of aggressive players but I do n't want violent men in my team ’ , was the advice he gave to Gimbert and Moscato , who made their Five Nations debuts against Wales in Cardiff , while Simon was made captain of the students side . |
| 34 | I admired George for the care and attention he gave to Lennie . |
| 35 | That was certainly the impression he gave to Taheb 's gatekeeper , a squat man with one wall-eye , who appraised him pessimistically with the other when he asked for the mistress of the house . |
| 36 | Land he gave to St Augustine 's , Canterbury , in 689 , which had come to him from his parents , had been confirmed in his possession by King Athelred ( CS 73 : S 12 ) . |
| 37 | Well , he was more interested than he has been given credit for , and he had a wonderful collection of eighteenth-century English books which he gave to Trinity College , Cambridge . |
| 38 | Newman in one of the Tracts for the Times drew up a form of service , to be used on the anniversary of Ken 's funeral , whose central message was ‘ He gave to Caesar the things that be Caesar 's and to God the things that be God 's . ’ |
| 39 | Most of his jewellery was taken , rings , bracelets , watches and cufflinks , plus items he gave to Jeanette . |
| 40 | The first declaration he gave to Pineau to take back to France would almost certainly have disappointed resisters : its denunciation of the Third Republic was a little too sweeping for Pineau 's taste ( one has to remember that by this stage the bitter experience of Vichyism and Nazism was beginning to rehabilitate the reputation of republicanism in France ) , and it had almost nothing to say about social or economic reform . |
| 41 | What 's more , though it seems not to be generally realized , Pound recognized what had happened and acknowledged it ; he did so in the public welcome he gave to Binyon 's translations of Dante , which employ a very archaic and convoluted diction indeed . |
| 42 | Leonard was but 21 when it was first published , though the poems were culled from his output from 15 to 20 years of age , according to an interview he gave to Andrew Tyler of Disc in 1972 . |
| 43 | ‘ But we have to do everything we can to find whatever it was he gave to Tristram before October the eleventh . ’ |
| 44 | In an address on Virgil which he gave in September of this year , he talked of certain men , like Aeneas , who are elected to a special destiny . |
| 45 | ‘ I went to a series of lectures on the history of art which he gave in Exeter where I was in my final year reading English . |
| 46 | He was challenged to come clean over personal assurances he gave in December 1990 that ministers were obeying a ban on selling defence equipment to Saddam Hussein . |
| 47 | I asked him after a lecture he gave in Cambridge , and he looked at me in a vague way and said yes , he would . |
| 48 | IN HIS book , All the Presidents ' Wits , Gerald Gardner quotes Ronald Reagan remembering a speech he gave in Mexico City as Californian governor which created so little applause he was embarrassed when he sat down . |
| 49 | I had won the scholarship to the grammar school and I could n't begin to describe the joy it gave to Aunt Hettie and Uncle Fred . |