Example sentences of "give [pers pn] to [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is generally sensible to limit the additional capabilities that the new desktop publishing product will give you to the bare minimum . |
| 2 | Pay the money for the upkeep of each child , do n't give it to the individual workman who may have few or no children . |
| 3 | I 'll give it to the old man she said no problem . |
| 4 | Or give them to a nearby playgroup or primary school , which will welcome any old cards that the children can cut up for collages . |
| 5 | ‘ Give him to the Chief Statistician ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ If you want something done then give it to a busy person ’ . |
| 7 | The Iraqis ' suspicions of his links with Iran , Israel and America ( he was on the CIA 's payroll ) were reinforced when , that year , he said : ‘ If support were strong enough we could control the Kirkuk oilfield and give it to an American company to operate ’ . |
| 8 | Bobbie asked the Station Master to give it to the old gentleman the next morning . |
| 9 | Makes a change to be giving it to a real postman . |
| 10 | It was quite simply we we were taking the business away from the high street erm glossy type travel agents and giving it to the back street travel agents . |
| 11 | ‘ You might cook him a wonderful pie and then you 'd find he 'd given it to a drunken beggar , and no matter how kind you thought him after a while you 'd want to kill him . |
| 12 | He cast around for somewhere to put them , and at once Mei Ling took them and gave them to a waiting servant . |
| 13 | He also purchased seven drawings attributed to Michelangelo from the Woodburn sale at Christie 's in 1887 and gave them to the British Museum ( five are still accepted as autograph ) . |
| 14 | The shop owner gives him to a little girl who needs him and cares for him . |
| 15 | There 's at least one track from all eight albums , and two tracks are from a live album , so I gave it to a wonderful guy called Jonathan Downs from the Fan Club , who knows an awful lot that I 'd forgotten myself , or never even knew ! |
| 16 | In one statute ‘ confidential information ’ means information disclosure of which is forbidden by statute or by the civil servant who gave it to the local authority . |
| 17 | Its vast size probably explains why it did not sell and , as it cluttered up his hallway for some time afterwards , Minton later gave it to the Royal College student and animal illustrator John Norris Wood . |
| 18 | In 1987 , I founded by prestigious First Turkey of the Christmas Season award and gave it to the British banker who had lent ( and lost ) £500,000 to a penniless student for him to play stock market futures . |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps that 's because it was a private home until its owner gave it to the National Trust . |