Example sentences of "[conj] give [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | For all its strengths , the game has a few flaws — you ca n't drop objects or give them to another character . |
2 | You will have to be ruthless if you find that they do n't press successfully , and either move them to another site in the garden , or give them to someone else . |
3 | Or give them to a nearby playgroup or primary school , which will welcome any old cards that the children can cut up for collages . |
4 | ‘ Do you eat the food I bring you , or give it to Rosa 's kids ? ’ |
5 | You can keep it at home with other important papers , or give it to your executor , your professional adviser , or your bank to look after . |
6 | Er the idea was we 'd be able to sell it to people or give it to people depending on whether they had any money or not I suppose by the Green Party . |
7 | It was partly with the new saw table and also he wanted to try and get more er sellable saleable product out of the slate , cos previously we had been throwing away quite a bit or giving it to and I think it really started as a family argument between him and his brother . |
8 | He then scattered it on pub floors or gave it to friends to buy drugs . |
9 | Nevertheless , there was a strong tendency in some constituencies for voters to " plump " for one candidate and waste their second vote , rather than give it to someone from the opposing party . |
10 | My father may leave everything to me , but I frankly would n't know what to do with it other than give it to Jamie . ’ |
11 | I , I , I personally feel that give it to solicitor and let her deal with it , because |
12 | It is only recently that I discovered that we are all born potentially good , demanding love and wanting nothing more than to give it in return . |
13 | Giving credit for extended periods is always more risky than giving it for shorter periods . |
14 | But Whitehall should contract out as much as possible of this research to industry itself rather than giving it to government establishments . |
15 | you know , the money is put towards their f food and things , rather than giving it to somebody else . |
16 | 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 |
17 | Er I 've done the slips and given them to Margaret to be . |
18 | After his death Mona had found the keys on the floor in the secretary 's room and given them to Maureen . |
19 | Fifty years after the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove , JD Lang wrote of Australia 's Aborigines : ‘ ( we have ) despoiled them of their land , and given them in exchange European vice and European disease in every foul and fatal form … ’ |
20 | 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 . |
21 | Okay , we could have measured that and given it as part of a spec listing , but because it really did n't feel any different ( probably because its fingerboard width , radius and frets echoed most of the competition ) that fact was rendered almost inconsequential . |
22 | He 'd mapped out a route for them , and given it to her to follow . |
23 | According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle A ( s.a. 661 ) , Wulfhere harried Ashdown in 661 , in which year he is also said to have attacked the Isle of Wight and given it to Aethelwealh , king of the southern Saxons . |
24 | When she 'd finished and given it to him , they both sat at her tiny kitchen table . |
25 | Sir : The suggestion of Mr Varcoe-Cocks ( letter , 5 October ) that if I win damages for libel and give them to charity I ‘ can not be said to have been compensated in any way ’ is extraordinary . |
26 | Take decisions away from bureaucracies and give them to people : that is the principle . |
27 | I fancy some of the sailors , having relatives gardeners , seeing these plants so carefully boxed up , took them for rarities ; so were tempted to steal them and give them to their friends . ’ |
28 | The witches , as the followers of Baal , take the attributes and names of God and give them to other powers or to false gods . |
29 | The problem with approaching children 's reading from a ‘ classics ’ approach — identify the best , the books ‘ of transparently permanent greatness ’ ( Rosenheim , 1980 , p.5 1 ) and give them to the children — is that it places emphasis on the book , on the literary work , and not on the needs and tastes of the individual reader . |
30 | Set down ten pairs of cards , pick them up in a pack and give them to onlookers to cut a few times . |