Example sentences of "[conj] give [pers pn] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you have to fill in the rest of that and give it back to me . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ The war , the war , the bloody war ! ’ said Comfort , screwing up his handkerchief and giving it back to him . |
| 5 | ‘ A considerable degree of work has been done in putting the city first and giving it back to its citizens , ’ he said . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She took them off and gave them back to him . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I put it carefully back in its envelope and gave it back to Dinwiddie , who slipped it into the pile . |
| 12 | ‘ Forward ! ’ , and gave it back to her , with a serious air . |
| 13 | He read the typescript quickly , signed it , and gave it back to her . |
| 14 | 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 . |