Example sentences of "give to [pers pn] by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Townsend reported that he had difficulty getting any sense out of the staff at Ostend , and in the end he completed an adjustment voucher given to him by the purser on the ship . |
| 2 | It is suggested that the conveyance be prepared and executed in duplicate so that the husband has a record of the terms of the indemnity given to him by the wife . |
| 3 | As in unregistered conveyancing it is probably advisable that the husband keeps a duplicate or certified copy of the transfer to the wife so that he has a record of the terms of indemnity given to him by the wife . |
| 4 | ‘ If , therefore , for any unhappy reason , counsel for the defence is unable to accept the assumption which stems from the fact that a particular statement has not been made available to him by the prosecution , it would become counsel 's duty to invite the judge to exercise the discretionary power which is given to him by the proviso to section 18 of the Evidence Law , ( c. 118 [ J. ] ) , by examining the statement himself and directing that it be used in such manner as the justice of the case demands . |
| 5 | A brother , Thomas Piper , is known to Burns enthusiasts as ‘ Spunkie Tammie ’ , a name given to him by the poet after the two men met in Maybole in 1786 . |
| 6 | Cam endures in a hostile frame of mind a voyage carrying cargo to the Caribbean , resenting the work given to him by the mate , indulging in futile practical jokes against him which are coldly ignored and doing his work with sullen reluctance . |
| 7 | Another power of the president given to him by the constitution ? |
| 8 | Erm I think the , the point that 's being made here is that even within the defined areas of authority given to him by the constitution , the president finds it very difficult to act unless certain specific conditions are met . |
| 9 | Patrick was again experimenting with balance , deliberately trying to build a construction that would over-balance ( a word given to him by the teacher during their earlier discussions ) . |
| 10 | Decisions are issued by either the Commission or the Council of Ministers : they derive directly from the authority given to them by the Treaty of Rome or from previously issued directives or regulations , and they too are binding upon the governments to which they are addressed . |
| 11 | This provides that if any religious houses alienate tenements given to them by the king or other founders , those tenements shall be recoverable by the donor or his heirs , the buyer losing both the tenement and the purchase price . |
| 12 | One of the fundamental aims of the White Paper was to bring science and technology firmly into the political arena , and to affirm the importance given to them by the Government ; and indeed , science and technology have undoubtedly found a higher placing on the political agenda . |
| 13 | The sort of things which you will need to decide upon are noted below ; it is not essential that you do any of these things , because even if you do not give written arguments , or you do not attend the hearing or send a representative , the Committee will consider the information given to them by the Council and then reach a decision on your case . |
| 14 | They now carry deeper theological meanings , which were probably given to them by the Church in the period of the oral tradition . |
| 15 | DBMS therefore have two views of the data : the logical schema , which is the view given to them by the user , programmer or database administrator , and the physical schema . |
| 16 | Lord Donaldson , Master of the Rolls , and Lord Lane , Lord Chief Justice , two of the four senior judges with a veto , criticised the role given to them by the bill . |
| 17 | The wives were a suspicious lot and hid the trinkets and baubles , given to them by the Maharajah for services rendered , from each other . |
| 18 | The question before me today is whether Parliament , in using similar language in section 265 , intended those words to bear the same meaning as those given to them by the House of Lords under the Act of 1914 . |
| 19 | If we decide to extend the rents-to-mortgages scheme and to make it nationwide , we shall take steps to ensure that no recalcitrant local authority can deny people rights that have been given to them by the House . |
| 20 | For a moment I thought he had come across the bottle of wine given to me by the couple at Benouville bridge café . |
| 21 | I refer to a parliamentary answer that was given to me by the Under-Secretary of State for Employment , the hon. Member for Mid-Worcestershire ( Mr. Forth ) . |
| 22 | I 'm glad you mentioned that cos it was given to me by the wife of the steeplechase handicap a very important man today cos for more than |
| 23 | But , we know that April was a low figure , we also know that July and August are low a figure which comes out from this graph and was given to me by the director yesterday , is a genuine average which is turning out to be between a hundred and a hundred and ten placements per month twelve hundred to fourteen hundred placements per year a thr over a three year average residency period three thousand six hundred to four thousand two hundred placements in residential care , where then is the real problem . |
| 24 | However , what I have done is to use detailed assignment printouts given to me by the County Council , it 's erm these things here , to look at the changes in traffic flow along the whole length of the A sixty one between its southern junction with a proposed western relief road and its northern junction with a western relief road . |
| 25 | Sabrina asked , holding up the one given to her by the stationmaster . |
| 26 | When they had passed under the Ponte di Rialto , with a disappointing view of the backs of its double row of shops , she checked the directions given to her by the hotel clerk , and , along with a jostling crowd of people , some tourists , some locals , disembarked at Sant'Angelo . |
| 27 | This is the story of how a woman made of iron emerged from the depths of a grocer 's shop in Grantham and , speaking with a strange tongue given to her by the God of Graven Images , Sir Gordon Reece , held a nation under her spell . |
| 28 | Draped across the carved wooden lid of a nearby chest were the clothes given to her by the Queen . |
| 29 | After her Essex Ladies team-mate Jenny Stoute had rushed on the track to embrace her , Gunnell then embarked on one of the slowest laps of honour imaginable as , draped in the Union Jack given to her by the crowd , she stopped to receive hugs from the fans . |
| 30 | After her Essex Ladies team-mate Jenny Stoute had rushed on the track to embrace her , Gunnell then embarked on one of the slowest laps of honour imaginable as , draped in the Union Jack given to her by the crowd , she stopped to receive hugs from the fans . |