Example sentences of "[conj] gave them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he took the medals out of his pocket and gave them to him . |
| 2 | I wrote some letters on the train and gave them to my … servant to post . |
| 3 | Tom picked up Willie 's three books and gave them to him to carry . |
| 4 | ‘ We took flowers from the cemetery , ’ says Kier , ‘ and gave them to my mum . |
| 5 | He also purchased seven drawings attributed to Michelangelo from the Woodburn sale at Christie 's in 1887 and gave them to the British Museum ( five are still accepted as autograph ) . |
| 6 | They took these from Father Christmas and gave them to the nurses , who gave them to the hospital children . |
| 7 | Then , since the fisherman did not come home , every morning she took his supper to the cliff-side and fed it to the wild snakes ; every noon she took the hempen nets and gave them to the sea-birds to build their nests . |
| 8 | And he picked a basketful of the pears and gave them to Gabriel . |
| 9 | And the mysterious little girl picked a bunch of the sweet mountain basil , with its grey leaves like smoke , and gave them to Marko . |
| 10 | He cast around for somewhere to put them , and at once Mei Ling took them and gave them to a waiting servant . |
| 11 | I peeled off five hundreds and gave them to the officer . |
| 12 | Irene slipped a few rich chocolates in a plastic bag and gave them to her daughter . |
| 13 | He terrified the inhabitants of Staufen Swabia , confiscated fiefs which had been conferred on ecclesiastics and gave them to his Saxon and English supporters . |
| 14 | I found the main control lines and gave them to Esmerelda , showing her how to hold them , and where . |
| 15 | He took out two large plastic orange cones — the sort you get on motorway hold-ups — and gave them to me , telling me to put them the other side of the bend to slow the traffic coming down . |
| 16 | Mr Taylor travelled back to Aberdeen and gave them to Murray . |
| 17 | before he was married his employer pictures off the wall and gave them to him |
| 18 | So I wrapped them up and gave them to her for her birthday . |