Example sentences of "give [pron] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Now the name was not a famous one , the cloth merchant having lived his life in the comparative obscurity common to most of us , and my patient had never before visited that part of the country — and yet the details he unearthed coincided perfectly with the facts he had given me during his regression . |
2 | My one pound , seventeen shillings had been put together over a number of years by saving money given me on my birthdays by relatives . |
3 | And then he said suddenly , ‘ That phone call Ah was waitin' fur — it was from the hotel Iris had given me as her address in Lima . |
4 | How did young Bruce become Uncle Bruce , to use the saucy sobriquet given me by my ever ebullient fellow presenter Richard Wyatt . |
5 | Uncle Walter had given them to him , Philip . |
6 | But once I 'd given them to him I never saw them again so I imagine he must have burnt them . |
7 | He told her things she had not known about him — good things , acts of generosity — it came out that it was he who had got Simon on to my pictures , the Douanier and the Gris ; he had practically given them to him . |
8 | ‘ I wanted to give them to his wife but she is n't here so I 've given them to him instead , ’ she said . |
9 | I get everything that 's going and now god 's given them to me . |
10 | Maureen said : ‘ I did n't think about them again until that psychic woman asked for them , but it was only after I had given them to her I realized they were n't his at all . |
11 | Some boy give me a single red rose and I 'd say , What you done with the other four , given them to your other girls ? |
12 | He has already given them to us . |
13 | He 's given them to us that 's why ! |
14 | I 've just given them to you as background , and because you 're lovely . ’ |
15 | Francis Carco , who was a friend who had bought Modigliani 's work before the crowd , also bought Modigliani 's paintings , but he was given them for what he himself described as a ridiculously cheap price . |
16 | She had discovered , too , one good source of decent clothing : periodically , churches and chapels would hold a sale of garments given them by their better-off parishioners . |
17 | If I can give them to him , then perhaps he will leave you out of all this . |
18 | She had bought some cigarettes for John and was wondering when she could give them to him . |
19 | I said I would give them to him only if he later gave me his weapon . |
20 | They 're gon na give them to him . |
21 | Well while you 're there you can give them to him ca n't you ? |
22 | We 've got ta give them to them today have we Andy and Michelle ? |
23 | ‘ We can give them to her to suck on when she needs to push . ’ |
24 | Well they 'd give them to her too . |
25 | Go on , let's give them to her . |
26 | Well , so I wo n't , I wo n't give them to her . |
27 | Amy 's three tomorrow , so she 'll give them to her tomorrow , she |
28 | No do n't give them to her look you bloody nicked her fifteen P , then you nick her crisps . |
29 | So why not give them to me ? |
30 | And then I came , I thought oh I ca n't find actually , there 's some here right , and she were n't gon na give them to me and I sort of went in there and got them myself . |