Example sentences of "[conj] gave [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then scattered it on pub floors or gave it to friends to buy drugs . |
| 2 | And it was this background you see that er that er th th that gave me at least the need for to play some some part in |
| 3 | So Rodrigo departed from the King , and took his spouse with him to the house of his mother , and gave her to his mother 's keeping . |
| 4 | " One of the lightermen got off at Cadogan Stairs and walked back with her and gave her to Maurice . " |
| 5 | However , he says that Mr. Owen , thereupon , ‘ gravely , but very tenderly rebuked my pride , and gave me for my theme : ‘ Ne sutor ultra crepidam ’ ’ ( ‘ Let the cobbler stick to his last ’ ) . |
| 6 | And he took the medals out of his pocket and gave them to him . |
| 7 | I wrote some letters on the train and gave them to my … servant to post . |
| 8 | Tom picked up Willie 's three books and gave them to him to carry . |
| 9 | ‘ We took flowers from the cemetery , ’ says Kier , ‘ and gave them to my mum . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | They took these from Father Christmas and gave them to the nurses , who gave them to the hospital children . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And he picked a basketful of the pears and gave them to Gabriel . |
| 14 | And the mysterious little girl picked a bunch of the sweet mountain basil , with its grey leaves like smoke , and gave them to Marko . |
| 15 | He cast around for somewhere to put them , and at once Mei Ling took them and gave them to a waiting servant . |
| 16 | I peeled off five hundreds and gave them to the officer . |
| 17 | Irene slipped a few rich chocolates in a plastic bag and gave them to her daughter . |
| 18 | He terrified the inhabitants of Staufen Swabia , confiscated fiefs which had been conferred on ecclesiastics and gave them to his Saxon and English supporters . |
| 19 | I found the main control lines and gave them to Esmerelda , showing her how to hold them , and where . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Mr Taylor travelled back to Aberdeen and gave them to Murray . |
| 22 | before he was married his employer pictures off the wall and gave them to him |
| 23 | So I wrapped them up and gave them to her for her birthday . |
| 24 | He blew his nose and gave his behind a scratch as we picked our way through the lush undergrowth . |
| 25 | Cameron folded the paper and gave it to James Menzies . |
| 26 | Aileen Gillies was all brisk agreement as she wrapped up some food in a cloth and gave it to them while her husband busied himself with laying the fire . |
| 27 | He finished typing , took the paper from the machine and gave it to her . |
| 28 | The elderly woman separated a skein of red silk from the bundle in her lap and gave it to her . |
| 29 | She unwound it and gave it to him . |
| 30 | His Dad pulled the arrow off the door and gave it to him . |