Example sentences of "[verb] give [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd 've given it to you ; I was n't holding out . |
| 2 | The Word was made flesh in Jesus Christ ; God has given himself to be understood in our terms and on our level ; and even in these terms and on that level it is the reality of God that is given for us to understand . |
| 3 | We we well we 'd love to be able to get get on with our job and er wi with far less interference than we receive at the moment but er when government insists on er on interfering to the extent it does an and there have been well I 've been reading recently so something like five hundred new powers the Education Secretary has given himself in the in over the last last few years . |
| 4 | Even so , striking on or soon after January 15th would help Mr Bush underline , for the benefit of critics at home and abroad , the clear legal authority the UN has given him for military action . |
| 5 | Gail Smith writes ‘ The burden God has given me for Albania took root in 1982 the first time I ever heard mention of the country and people . |
| 6 | With a long journey ahead of me every morning and evening , I do n't hang about , and this is the first petrol-engined car I 've used that has given me over 45mpg on a run . |
| 7 | … the privilege which God has given me of being a servant of Christ Jesus … |
| 8 | I for one value the friendship that he has given me in the eight and a half years that I have been a Member of the House , despite the fact that we are in different parties and disagree on many issues . |
| 9 | Eighth , they plant churches because ‘ God wants YWAM missionaries to build into local congregations the spiritual foundations ’ he has given them as a mission . |
| 10 | Does the Secretary of State not accept that our valley councils have lost more in rate support grant over the past 10 years than he has given them in new money in the latest package ? |
| 11 | I find the textual basis for this interpretation very flimsy , in fact there is clear erm erm erm textual evidence for precisely the opposite and let me cite erm one instance Locke is here talking about tacit consent and the purchase of property and erm he says whenever the owner who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government will by donation , sale or otherwise quit the said possession , he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other commonwealth or to agree with others to begin a new one in any part of the world they can find free and unpossessed whereas he that has once by actual agreement in any expressed declaration given his consent to be of any commonwealth is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be and remain unalterably a subject to it and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature . |
| 12 | Or is it the picture God has given us of himself ? |
| 13 | If we make sure of the right answer to these questions we will develop the full , clear picture of God that he himself has given us in his revelation . |
| 14 | He care for the whole of mankind and has given us in the Bible a guide-book by which to live . |
| 15 | Check the output which CREFDL has given you against the example of a successful run of the command file as shown in Figure 2.1 . |
| 16 | ‘ Since the board has elected as a matter of practice not to give reasons , and has given none to Mr. Cunningham , it has been bound by its own logic not to attempt to justify for the benefit of the court the figure awarded . |
| 17 | I 've got this feeling that she has given it to Sophie |
| 18 | Again , the two TV programmes I mentioned give plenty of evidence of the power they exercise over the lives of thousands upon thousands . |
| 19 | How should you respond when there are squabbles and arguments ; when you want your own way and no one wants to give it to you ? |
| 20 | Well , Jenny needs to give him in writing what she wants to say . |
| 21 | How could the working class make effective use of the political power which the vote was expected to give them without the opportunity to engage in an open discussion of political principle and perspectives ? |
| 22 | As it was American atomic attitudes in this period hardened British resolution not to be bullied out of the business and not to acquiesce in an American monopoly ; it encouraged her determination to be a nuclear power for the sake of the influence this was expected to give her in Washington ! |
| 23 | I gave it to Mrs Barrymore , and she promised to give it to him at once . ’ |
| 24 | And she 'd forgotten to give it to you . |
| 25 | Jean held up her hand to it and when it made a bright white spot on her palm , she closed her fingers over it and pretended to give it into Donald 's hand , like a delicacy . |
| 26 | They tried to give us to our ancient enemies in 1912 , 1974 , 1985 and now we 've had the ‘ Brooke initiative ’ which was another attempt by Westminster to be rid of us . |
| 27 | She tried to give it to me |
| 28 | I bought your Christmas present today and I ca n't wait to give it to you . |
| 29 | Er the goods that what , not goods that we want to give them like junk food and ludicrous fashions , to find out what it is that they want this of equipment and no , and do n't forget the know-how , I mean we are , we have a hell of a Know-how in this country which is not being used . |
| 30 | I want to give it to Angela to put away now so I know my money 's put a way . |