Example sentences of "[noun prp] give [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Now , the Talleyrand-Perigords have , as their name implies , been mighty lords in Perigord since the early Middle Ages , and in the early poem ‘ Near Perigord ’ Talleyrand is one of the powerful and menacing neighbours whom Bertrand de Born has to play off one against another , thus earning ( so Pound 's poem suggests ) the title which Dante gives him in the Inferno , ‘ sower of strife ’ . |
| 32 | Danny gave it to me and he |
| 33 | Ulster blood was spilt in two World Wars and is still being spilt here in our own mother country and what does Britain give us in return ? |
| 34 | They played , slowly at first , then faster , Tuan Ti Fo giving nothing to the boy , punishing him for every mistake he made . |
| 35 | Anne gave it to me . |
| 36 | ‘ Gooseneck gave it to me last night . |
| 37 | Erm Ian left that with me and I was to speak to Bob before Bob gave it to because it was n't very good . |
| 38 | In the weeks following his bedding of Rose , Lowell gave himself to her totally . |
| 39 | Cara gave it to me . |
| 40 | ‘ Both were brought in from the garden — home grown — and never left the kitchen until Cook gave them to Edith for the table . |
| 41 | Ashmolean Museum , Oxford , has bought its first Poussin drawing , the ‘ View of the Tiber Valley ’ , attributed to Claude until Blunt gave it to Poussin , ( £156,450 , est. £70–100,000 ; NACF , NHMF , the Hulme Fund , and the Friends of the Ashmolean and the Purchase Grant Fund support ) . |
| 42 | Returning to the advice that Leo Amery gave me as a young man , I remember reading widely from the great autobiographies and biographies that he recommended , including the works of Lord Milner . |
| 43 | With his 29 runs at a vital stage of the Hampshire innings and three wickets for only 33 , Malcolm Marshall might have been both a logical and romantic choice for the Gold Award , but Micky Stewart gave it to Robin Smith , whose 90 was by far the highest and best innings of the match . |
| 44 | Aaron give it to Alex |
| 45 | I dare n't wear that nice fur coat that cousin Freda gave me in case I get bombed by the Animal Liberation Front . |
| 46 | Michael Barry gives plenty of advice on how to defrost a frozen bird plus clear roasting and carving instructions . |
| 47 | SUPPORT BETWEEN KIN : WHO GIVES WHAT TO WHOM ? |
| 48 | I 've never heard testimony better delivered than Pulley 's ( and ) Leech gave his with great clearness and good sense ’ . |
| 49 | From this point of view , opportunities must have seemed slow to come , but de Valois gave him at least one chance every year from the time of his joining the company : Adieu and Tritsch Tratsch in 1947 , Children 's Corner in 1948 and , for the following year , his most ambitious production to date , Sea Change . |
| 50 | He is still astonished Potter gave it to him . |
| 51 | Susan gave them to me . |
| 52 | ‘ Gramps gave them to me . ’ |
| 53 | Look I 'll give that to Joan and Joan can give it to you , watch it , you do n't steel , no , no , you do n't take things , you wait till it 's given to you , no I 'm watching you do n't you dare beg at me , do n't you dare , do n't you dare , wait for Joan to give it to you |
| 54 | Cos I might be able to cart them off to Joanne and Emma to give them to their mum 's on Mother 's Day |
| 55 | Originally stolen by a wizard from a DRAGON 's cave , the Emperor Charlemagne gave it to the four sons of Aymon . |
| 56 | A machine to get that does that , is a good program as it is , it 's three hundred quid normally but it 's a copy Dudley gave it to me |
| 57 | He 'll let our Martha have them , if he thinks Elizabeth gave them to her . ’ |
| 58 | Gilbert Elliot , second Earl of Minto [ q.v. ] , while staying in Geneva in 1821 , recorded an account of Schweppe given him by François Hubert , the blind Swiss naturalist , an old friend of Schweppe in Bouchet . |
| 59 | Instead of entrusting the jurisdiction to the usual magistrates , the praetors , Augustus gave it to the consuls . |
| 60 | Taking a packet of Strands from his pocket Michael gave one to Geoffrey and after offering the pack to James , who refused , laboriously set about lighting the cigarettes . |