Example sentences of "giving [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Here you are then , ’ said the boy , taking the wire-cutters out of his pocket and giving them to Philip . |
| 2 | ‘ I prefer giving them to myself . ’ |
| 3 | Why did Mrs Jenks insist on giving them to him for breakfast ? |
| 4 | Franchises were to be allocated on both channels by auction , giving them to whoever would pay the government the highest fee , subject to an abstract ‘ quality threshold ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ I ca n't stand it — I 'm taking them — I 'm giving them to the dogs … . ’ |
| 6 | What about giving them to charity ? |
| 7 | You got about five of them went round giving them to other people just so you could say that to Chris did n't you ? |
| 8 | They played , slowly at first , then faster , Tuan Ti Fo giving nothing to the boy , punishing him for every mistake he made . |
| 9 | They see Jesus as freely giving his blood ; that is , giving himself to all people . |
| 10 | In fact , however , the second point — the reality of God 's giving himself to be known in Jesus Christ — was always the real focus of his concern , and he came to stress it more and more as the years passed , and as he moved away from what he later said to have been the one-sidedness of his earlier writings . |
| 11 | He just kept on giving everything to Lennie and giving him the love he needed . |
| 12 | Leaders of the ‘ armed counter-revolution ’ , as Ms Magas calls it , rejected all compromises that might have preserved the outlines of Yugoslavia while giving something to the non-Serbs . |
| 13 | I 'd like to do that , but you 're just giving one to the Conservatives . |
| 14 | But the , the dictionary of the nineties you see , they give one to every age group , but not unless , there 's no point in giving one to anybody particularly |
| 15 | She 'd pictured giving herself to a man , but not until the right time and the right one came along . |
| 16 | Her growing indignation at the way they were discussing her as though she were so much merchandise was abruptly swamped by misery at the thought of giving herself to the man she had dreamed of for years in such a cold-blooded manner . |
| 17 | Nothing could have prepared her for the beauty they had just shared , and she knew that for as long as she lived she would never regret giving herself to this man . |
| 18 | Normally we heat it first and add biscuit so that the dogs have a warm , mixed meal , but tonight Odd-Knut is considering giving it to them frozen to save time . |
| 19 | Vic asked , retrieving the egg from his duffel coat pocket and giving it to Mungo . |
| 20 | But Whitehall should contract out as much as possible of this research to industry itself rather than giving it to government establishments . |
| 21 | ‘ Too busy giving it to his secretary , by all accounts . ’ |
| 22 | It 's all right , ’ Sarah said , picking up the purse and giving it to her . |
| 23 | It costs thirteen shillings instead of twelve-and-six for the standard brands , so I 'm not giving it to heathens who spoil its flavour with ice . ’ |
| 24 | To her , as to Edmund , the question of legitimacy is a nuisance to be subverted : When Goneril 's ‘ trusty servant ’ , Oswald , bears a letter from her to Edmund , Regan attempts to corrupt him into giving it to her ( IV.v.20ff . ) . |
| 25 | I 'm giving it to you . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Funny things , are n't they ? ’ holding it to the light , checking the measure before giving it to Rosen . |
| 27 | But there was no sense in her giving it to me in full view of everyone . |
| 28 | He had given her the capital for the first one on their twentieth wedding anniversary , when he had already bought a Georgian pendant that he dearly wished her to have , but before he chanced giving it to her he had asked her what she would like , and she told him . |
| 29 | ‘ You 're giving it to me ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Ah , but that was when I was only pumping you for information , not giving it to you . |