Example sentences of "[pron] give [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Mum can I give one to Robert when he comes out of school ?
2 Mum can I give one to Robert when he comes out of school ?
3 Why should I give anything to Perks ?
4 I gave one to Jackie and not heard whether she 's had it or not .
5 Tonight , I gave everything to you , everything .
6 For even though some attempt to give status to the ‘ community or home beat officer ’ has been made following Lord Scarman 's ( 1981 ) report on the Brixton riots which gave something of a ‘ slap on the wrist ’ to the service , the deference accorded to specialist posting or to detective work remains untouched .
7 Intertel Communications Inc , currently legally a Canadian company , says from its Teleport Denver Inc base in Colorado that it plans to swear allegiance to the flag and become a naturalised American : it will reincorporate in the US to meet a condition set by the Federal Communications Commission , which gave plenty of ammunition to the Europeans that say that the US market is not as open as Uncle Sam likes to think , by insisting that only American companies could hold earth satellite station common carrier licences — there is no comparable restriction on US companies applying for licences in the UK .
8 I mean if you go it 's normally I chat about two lectures on that and you give lots of examples .
9 After handing me a glass she gave one to Reid , and then , as though unthinkingly , straightened the fringe of hair round the back of his neck .
10 Pouring the tea into two thick white mugs , she gave one to her friend .
11 Then when she had twins she gave one to her married sister .
12 She gave one to Athelstan and pressed the other into Sir John 's great paw .
13 She walked and walked , up Shaftesbury Avenue , Holborn Viaduct , she gave nothing to buskers , veterans of the Great War , gassed blind , missing limbs , clinking cups , Cheapside , Threadneedle , Bishopsgate to Spitalfields .
14 We fail so utterly to reward responsible married women that if we give anything at all to single mothers we appear to be placing a premium — ‘
15 We took them down to Max 's Kansas City and gave one to Micky Ruskin the owner , we gave one to the DJ ; and we gave one to Lisa Robinson , the reporter .
16 We took them down to Max 's Kansas City and gave one to Micky Ruskin the owner , we gave one to the DJ ; and we gave one to Lisa Robinson , the reporter .
17 And the pensioners go down to this bungalow free , and it 's in lovely spot and we gave something like two thousand pound for it .
18 But the , the dictionary of the nineties you see , they give one to every age group , but not unless , there 's no point in giving one to anybody particularly
19 Then they give somebody like her that single parent girl , Vera , a bloody big double house !
20 Of course he was the genuine article , a great champion whose pride would not allow him to give anything but his best .
21 They gave everyone around them a more unpleasant outlook on life .
22 Will it give lots of success or just a little ?
23 He 's at a party in Toronto to honour his pal Warren Beatty ; someone is always giving a party for Beatty and when they do n't he gives one for himself .
24 He gives nothing on a corporate basis , believing shareholders should decide what to do with their dividends .
25 He gives something to Anna .
26 He gave one to Corbett before sitting down opposite , sipping from his own cup as if he had all the time in the world .
27 They pushed one man forward and he gave something to Silver .
28 Until eighteen months ago Wiltshire was the most undermanned force in this country , and that 's not our figures , that was the Home Office formula which produced that , and because of that eighteen months ago the Home Secretary actually granted this force an extra sixty- seven policemen and he gave none to anybody else .
29 Then he gave lots of statistics about the number of Christians killed by Mohammedans , and vice versa . ’
30 The Toshiba radar rainfall monitoring system is designed to alert local governments to unexpectedly heavy rainfall , so it gives plenty of advance warning for extra drainage and emergency pumps .
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