Example sentences of "[pron] was give away [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And anyway , I was giving away at least fifty pounds . |
| 2 | The bride , who was given away by her step-father , wore a full-length satin and lace dress with train , embroidered with pearls and sequins , and lace edged veil held in place with pearl headdress . |
| 3 | The bride , who was given away by her father , wore an Elizabethan-style dress , in cream silk , with a train with tiny pearls edging the dress and decorating the sleeves . |
| 4 | He had managed to reconnoitre the area between the South Foreland and Beachy Head and to study the roads between there and London when he was given away by the careless talk , prompted by malice , of the ambassador 's homosexual secretary , a subsequently notorious transvestite , the Chevalier d'Éon , who later lived as a woman . |
| 5 | Charles was not inclined to look too hard at what he was giving away in the charters he issued , and he issued two charters , one to the Earl of Carlisle and one to Sir William Courteen , which covered the same islands , probably because people in England did not know much about the geography of the area and possibly did not much care . |