Example sentences of "[pron] gave it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't approve of what he was doing , but if I refused his money I would be more and more visible , so I took it , and when he had gone off in relief back towards the dining car I gave it to the barman . |
| 2 | When I first read this , I gave it in the margin the chess marking ‘ ! ? ’ indicating a move which , though possibly brilliant , is probably unsound . |
| 3 | There was always a modest manor at Sutton , held at the time of the Domesday survey by Henry de Ferrers , then by the Boschervilles , who gave it to the Priory of Trentham . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Its whereabouts remained unknown until it was consigned at auction by a private collector in Spring 1990 , and bought by collectors who gave it to the Metropolitan . |
| 6 | The road was owned by Mr Dalison who gave it to the parish , in 1892 and it was made up at the cost of £40 and the improvements to the cemetery cost a further £21 140 . |
| 7 | I just wonder why you gave it in the first place . ’ |
| 8 | She gave it to the person who contacted you . |
| 9 | Finding her own pocket handkerchief , she gave it into the old lady 's other hand . |
| 10 | and we gave it to the erm school at over Downing Drive |
| 11 | It 's just like , no two girls got expelled from my last school for drugs but I think they actually one of them gave it to the other one but they were both expelled . |
| 12 | In that state he gave it to the boy who set off on his half-mile walk . |
| 13 | He gave it to the driver of the taxi he found outside , who whisked him back up the hill again , back through time to a medieval alley smelling of woodsmoke and urine . |
| 14 | Well , he gave it to the dirty little bugger . |
| 15 | " He gave it on the condition that we cared for it and , although my husband already liked gardening , that was what started my interest " . |