Example sentences of "give [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was he actually whom Simon had asked to be the co-respondent — bogus co-respondent — when they were concocting their divorce , it was about him that the judge had scolded her and given me to Anna . |
| 2 | For all she knows , the social services could have given me to another family . |
| 3 | Speaking from the governor 's mansion in Little Rock , Arkansas , local boy Bill , said : ‘ I accept tonight the responsibility you have given me to be the leader of this , the greatest country in human history . ’ |
| 4 | Uncle Walter had given them to him , Philip . |
| 5 | But once I 'd given them to him I never saw them again so I imagine he must have burnt them . |
| 6 | I 've just given them to you as background , and because you 're lovely . ’ |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | I 've given them to that solicitor that |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Er I 've done the slips and given them to Margaret to be . |
| 11 | After his death Mona had found the keys on the floor in the secretary 's room and given them to Maureen . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | His father would have given them to Oxfam , or to a jumble sale . |
| 14 | I had given them to Menna when he first left to take up his post . |
| 15 | ‘ I wanted to give them to his wife but she is n't here so I 've given them to him instead , ’ she said . |
| 16 | I get everything that 's going and now god 's given them to me . |
| 17 | He has already given them to us . |
| 18 | He 's given them to us that 's why ! |
| 19 | Always throw away broken toys and do n't give them to others — it just passes on the risk of accidents to someone else . |
| 20 | I 'll give them to Elizabeth and she can pass them on to Martha . |
| 21 | In the manufacturing manager 's own words : ‘ Development in the production environment meant that the operator would productionise machinery , and rather than management giving production parameters to the operators , the operators would to some extent give them to management . |
| 22 | INSTEAD of destroying their bumper crop of potatoes , farmers should give them to the needy . |
| 23 | I would n't give them to a dog . |
| 24 | N : The best things in life are free but you can give them to the birds and bees |
| 25 | Charles II found land grants very convenient ; he could give them to people who at the beginning of the century would have asked for monopolies and he could feel confident that these grants would not rouse the hostility in England that monopolies had caused . |
| 26 | Can you , if you can let , simply let me have those in at the end of the session or if you can give them to Eleanor at the end of the session . |
| 27 | I 'll give them to the dogs . |
| 28 | If I may , I 'll give them to you tomorrow with Post-Its telling you what to write , what to transpose it to . |
| 29 | They 're also on sale at the chemist 's with other formula milks , but you should not give them to your child without talking to your doctor or health visitor first to see if they 're suitable . |
| 30 | If I can give them to him , then perhaps he will leave you out of all this . |