Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] the [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's given me the key to his apartment . ’ |
| 2 | But next to the Dance Hall if we 'd given them the licence to ha turn the cinema into a Dance Hall , there was this little old boy who lived just the other side of the road , in an old cottage , and he was over eighty . |
| 3 | It 's too easy , I think , to assume that women are n't aggressive and are sensitive and men are more aggressive and less sensitive because that 's the way society has wanted them to be in the past and children have grown up and lived up to those stereotypes , so I do n't think we can actually say yet that women can offer anything distinctive until we 've given them the chance to be themselves really . |
| 4 | Instead of the Exchequer , Baldwin had offered him the embassy to Washington , which Chamberlain had rejected with anger . |
| 5 | Anne had given her the parcel to post two days ago and she had completely forgotten all about it . |
| 6 | Jenny was the girl she lived with , and the one who had given her the impetus to finally escape the suffocating love of her father and uncle in Hong Kong . |
| 7 | This would have given him the opportunity to be a restraining influence against the extremists . |
| 8 | A property millionaire had given him the key to the Mayfair pad where he squired Antonia . |
| 9 | Some Tory loyalist backbenchers said last night that this episode could not be compared to the attack on Mrs Thatcher by the then Sir Geoffrey Howe , which is acknowledged to have cost her the keys to No. 10 . |
| 10 | Yeah , well tell him you 'll put him in his diary , I I would have thought if you 'd just sent him the notes to each meeting he would come if he would , if he could , and if he ca n't , he ca n't . |
| 11 | ‘ Your excellent work has given us the answer to that question , Watson . |
| 12 | Regretfully , the young gentleman told him that he had quoted me the price to the trade , and for a retail sale it would be slightly more expensive , i.e. £36 plus VAT . |