Example sentences of "[pers pn] give [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 Archivist reads : I give to Henry my eldest son my broad loom in the shop with my rapier and dagger and a physic book called the Breviary of Health .
2 This I gave to Shawcraft .
3 This is the precise pineapple I gave to Mrs Rodriguez as a ‘ Get Well Soon ’ present .
4 No matter where I wander I am haunted by your name The portrait of your beauty stays the same sailing on the ocean wondering where you are if you 'll return again where is the ring I gave to Nancy Spain …
5 All I had were a few personal belongings and a little money , and these I gave to Jean-Claude with all my heart .
6 Thus for example in the quotation which I gave from Anselm , it is to be noted that God is to be seen as a Father in authority and teaching , as a Mother in kindness and mercy .
7 ‘ The definition of ‘ cause of action ’ which I gave in Read v. Brown has been cited .
8 In a lecture that I gave in Rome I tried to show that in spite of what Thomas Kuhn says ( which has been much exaggerated by his followers ) , you can not write the history of any branch of knowledge , whatever it may be , from a completely relativist point of view .
9 The answer on this subject that I gave in November made it perfectly clear that the decision is mine and nobody else 's .
10 No , you got the lend of the one , he had a lend of the one you give to Nicholas .
11 Tt I was meant to bring you over a couple of chocolate biscuits and fifty pence for you to give to Craig cos he 's bound to want something .
12 ‘ Now you will take the advice you gave to Ana .
13 I remember the concert performances you gave in Berlin in December 1977 .
14 It was written and circulated privately by Evelyn Underhill for the retreats she gave at Pleshey and elsewhere .
15 She opened a drawer of the kitchen-dresser and pulled out a photograph , which she gave to Ruth .
16 The city suits and ivory silk dinner jackets she gave to Franky .
17 John wrote at length to Hanns about colour , shapes and general effect desirable , and asked him to ‘ do a few rough sketches and send them to me to give to Cecily ; number them so that I can just send you back a telegram saying ‘ Do number three ’ say , unless there is more to be said . ’
18 The importance of the miracles is the teaching they give about Jesus to the modern Christian .
19 Before leaving , I gave a spare key to Lisabeth and an envelope with Jo 's two hundred quid for her to give to Mr Nassim .
20 The backbenchers ' unrest was underlined by the rousing ovation they gave to Chancellor Nor-man Lamont at a private meeting yesterday .
21 They found that young mothers seemed to give health visitors a more idealized version of how they treated their babies than the account they gave to Elizabeth Newson , who was not seen to have any authority over them .
22 There was little difference between the performances JR and Sue Ellen gave on Wogan and those they gave on Dallas .
23 ‘ So the money he gives to Osman must come from somewhere else .
24 ‘ Which he gives to Osman . ’
25 Or vice-versa , in Eddie 's case , as he gets no more than he gives from Marco .
26 I cherish the memory of a lecture he gave at MIT where I was a student in 1947 .
27 In 1956 , the Soviet scientist , Ivor Kurchatov removed some of the secrecy surrounding research on fusion in a lecture he gave at Harwell .
28 If he had given the speech that he gave at Bayeux in June 1946 a year earlier , he could have turned the October 1945 referendum and elections into a referendum on his own views .
29 In one way or another a great many people owed much to this benevolent physician and he gave to Philip Miller an opportunity which would ultimately benefit botany and horticulture throughout the world .
30 Although not an Ulsterman himself , he gave to Ulster the charismatic lead that transformed resistance into armed rebellion , and he was a popular platform speaker with Unionists on both sides of the Irish Sea .
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