Example sentences of "[conj] give [pers pn] to " 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 | But Whitehall should contract out as much as possible of this research to industry itself rather than giving it to government establishments . |
| 13 | you know , the money is put towards their f food and things , rather than giving it to somebody else . |
| 14 | Er I 've done the slips and given them to Margaret to be . |
| 15 | After his death Mona had found the keys on the floor in the secretary 's room and given them to Maureen . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He 'd mapped out a route for them , and given it to her to follow . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | When she 'd finished and given it to him , they both sat at her tiny kitchen table . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Take decisions away from bureaucracies and give them to people : that is the principle . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | The witches , as the followers of Baal , take the attributes and names of God and give them to other powers or to false gods . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Set down ten pairs of cards , pick them up in a pack and give them to onlookers to cut a few times . |
| 26 | TAKE THE TABLETS OF STONE DOWN THE MOUNTAIN AND GIVE THEM TO THE PEOPLE . ’ |
| 27 | Mum could n't read anyway but she always seemed to know when Auntie Nellie wrote and Dad made it my job to hide these letters and give them to him when Mum was out of the way . |
| 28 | He was older so I listened to him , so I 'd shoplift all these things and give them to him . ’ |
| 29 | Using the Public Windows Interface self-certification kits promised next month , independent software vendors which find their application(s) do n't run are being asked look at the source , find the undocumented Windows calls being made and give them to Sun which will add them to the PWI specification . |
| 30 | He said he 'd put them away for a bit and give them to Oliver when he started smoking again . |