Example sentences of "[conj] give [pers pn] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The alternatives would seem to be handing General Noriega to the US forces to face trial on drug-trafficking charges , which the Vatican has said it will not do , or giving him up to the new Panamanian Government , which has already declared it ‘ has enough on him to put Noriega away for life ’ . |
| 2 | The protector had taken the Great Seal , returned by the queen-dowager that very morning , and given it again into the chancellor 's care . |
| 3 | Yeah but its , you got ta try and give them instead of putting the law first , not |
| 4 | Harbury rattled on : ‘ I know he 'd rather make a statement later on and give it simultaneously to everyone . |
| 5 | It 's come in in different ways , maths , English and science from Spring Gardens is separate separate sheets which we can actually take out the files and give to each department , there 's no problem there Saint John 's again , is separate sheets , Collingwood is n't , it 's actually on photocopiable sheets , we either cut them up and give them out separately in some form or whatever , and what I 've , what we hope to do over the next maybe this year is to ask them for a sheet each , for each subject that we can actually take out of the file and give to each department , so that is has arrived , it ha did arrive last year but it arrived in such hotch botch that we did n't actually give it out , but we certainly have it this year and Marian and I certainly , Marian anyway will get that together and give it out to departments . |
| 6 | you have to fill in the rest of that and give it back to me . |
| 7 | Could I ask Bauer , I wondered , if he would keep it in his office and give it back to us when he had to leave ? |
| 8 | I had a phone call from so she said to me come down to the admin , so I went down and she 'd opened the letter and give it back to us . |
| 9 | Well I can I can remember when I was a child and kids had a lot of time to do hobbies and a favourite hobby was to make a a garden and I never made one , but a friend of mine was ooh forever making these things and giving them away as presents you got the lid of a biscuit tin or something of that sort and you I do n't know what they used for grass they used to model little ducks and things and he had a piece of mirror to make a pond have you ever seen this done ? |
| 10 | That we can not cope with another child , that we are not ready for parenthood , that we can not face raising a child without a partner , that we can not afford a child , that our method of birth control failed , that we are the victims of rape , that we can not bear the anguish of carrying a child to term and giving it up for adoption , that we can not accept the responsibility of caring for a handicapped child — these are the reasons why we seek abortion in the vast majority of cases . |
| 11 | ‘ The war , the war , the bloody war ! ’ said Comfort , screwing up his handkerchief and giving it back to him . |
| 12 | ‘ A considerable degree of work has been done in putting the city first and giving it back to its citizens , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Three weeks into the job and Richard Jaross , Uniforum 's spanking new executive director , is talking about revitalising the place and giving it more of a customer focus . |
| 14 | If you struggled with rollers and gave them up as a bad job about ten years ago , you 'll be surprised at the simplicity of the latest setting appliances . |
| 15 | You know , there was a lot of people had them and gave them out to neighbours or not total strangers , but people that were n't really related to them . |
| 16 | She wrapped up the clogs and gave them back to me with the instruction that I was only to wear the shoes when I came to call . |
| 17 | She took them off and gave them back to him . |
| 18 | Barbie said she 'd rather have a cigarette anyway and gave them back to us , but we could n't break any of them off , so we kept passing this lump backwards and forwards , sucking it and grinding little chunks off it , till we got fed up with it and chucked it on the floor . |
| 19 | The city , he continues , was a ‘ sign of capital ’ ; it ‘ took up and eviscerated the varieties of social practice and gave them back with ventriloqual precision ’ . |
| 20 | Something put his hand on Anne 's bottom , but did not seem to mind too much when she peeled it off and gave it back to him . |
| 21 | I put it carefully back in its envelope and gave it back to Dinwiddie , who slipped it into the pile . |
| 22 | ‘ Forward ! ’ , and gave it back to her , with a serious air . |
| 23 | He read the typescript quickly , signed it , and gave it back to her . |
| 24 | Greimas maps onto his diagram Propp 's basic narrative chiasmus : traitor ravishes king 's daughter and transfers her elsewhere to hide her , hero finds somewhere king 's daughter and gives her back to her parents . |
| 25 | There 's even a fireplace which can be installed on a wall with no flue : a container of special fuel is lit under ‘ coals ’ , and gives you up to three hours of warmth and flames with no mess , no de-ashing , and no chimney is needed . |