Example sentences of "give [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This says nothing about the Government 's industrial strategy , because although the Government give nothing to the DCDC , they give more than £500,000 to the Devon and Cornwall development bureau , the inward investment bureau . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Take decisions away from bureaucracies and give them to people : that is the principle . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , but he give them to Madge . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You need to watch who you give them to , ’ he added with the understatement of youth . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | The witches , as the followers of Baal , take the attributes and names of God and give them to other powers or to false gods . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Regularly throw out old magazines : give them to your dentist or the local paper-collection . |
| 10 | For all its strengths , the game has a few flaws — you ca n't drop objects or give them to another character . |
| 11 | Set down ten pairs of cards , pick them up in a pack and give them to onlookers to cut a few times . |
| 12 | TAKE THE TABLETS OF STONE DOWN THE MOUNTAIN AND GIVE THEM TO THE PEOPLE . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He was older so I listened to him , so I 'd shoplift all these things and give them to him . ’ |
| 16 | Give them to her immediately , my father ordered . |
| 17 | Give them to the charity bazaar . ’ |
| 18 | It 's much easier for me to centralise all requests , arrange the shipping — or , in this case , give them to you to take to the island . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Give them to me , it 'll be quicker . |
| 21 | Or give them to a nearby playgroup or primary school , which will welcome any old cards that the children can cut up for collages . |
| 22 | He said he 'd put them away for a bit and give them to Oliver when he started smoking again . |
| 23 | I feel very strongly that Salford should end this free giving away of degrees , but give them to the deserved students only — us . |
| 24 | I give them to that solicitor that , I were talking to . |
| 25 | Then I give them to Wallace . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Give them to me , Mary , ’ I said . |
| 27 | Give them to me . ’ |
| 28 | So I I would erm you know , quite often get bags of clothes , and s we sorted them out , and give them to people with erm quite large families and erm we used to also get some for the tenants ' association for the jumble sales . |
| 29 | ‘ Give them to me . ’ |
| 30 | I was to keep them safe and eventually give them to anyone who survived . |