Example sentences of "gave them to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Both were brought in from the garden — home grown — and never left the kitchen until Cook gave them to Edith for the table . |
| 2 | Their deafening boom tossed up lunar rainbows ; and Fenna gave them to Maggie for playthings and they dissolved in dark brightness between her fingers . |
| 3 | Lobbyists must report contributions without specifying whom they gave them to . |
| 4 | And he took the medals out of his pocket and gave them to him . |
| 5 | I wrote some letters on the train and gave them to my … servant to post . |
| 6 | I gave them to him . |
| 7 | He sent them to a famous anthropologist at the university , who gave them to the library . |
| 8 | We gave them to an Embassy official as we passed through that city , en route to military installations near Fallujiah . |
| 9 | He 'll let our Martha have them , if he thinks Elizabeth gave them to her . ’ |
| 10 | Elizabeth said she would like to see copies of these letters , and she gave them to Mrs Spurling — this , I think , justifies the presence of Braemar letters here . |
| 11 | Tom picked up Willie 's three books and gave them to him to carry . |
| 12 | ‘ Mrs Smith gave them to me , ’ I told her . |
| 13 | ‘ We took flowers from the cemetery , ’ says Kier , ‘ and gave them to my mum . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | Placing the sandwiches on a plate , she gave them to her husband . |
| 16 | They took these from Father Christmas and gave them to the nurses , who gave them to the hospital children . |
| 17 | They took these from Father Christmas and gave them to the nurses , who gave them to the hospital children . |
| 18 | Then , since the fisherman did not come home , every morning she took his supper to the cliff-side and fed it to the wild snakes ; every noon she took the hempen nets and gave them to the sea-birds to build their nests . |
| 19 | And he picked a basketful of the pears and gave them to Gabriel . |
| 20 | And the mysterious little girl picked a bunch of the sweet mountain basil , with its grey leaves like smoke , and gave them to Marko . |
| 21 | ‘ You gave them to Fairfax ? ’ |
| 22 | He cast around for somewhere to put them , and at once Mei Ling took them and gave them to a waiting servant . |
| 23 | Not only madrigals but canzonette and balletti , under anglicized names , were modelled sometimes all too closely on Italian originals and printing at last gave them to the public . |
| 24 | My mother gave them to me when I left university . ’ |
| 25 | I peeled off five hundreds and gave them to the officer . |
| 26 | No , I took them off of her , she gave them to me |
| 27 | Irene slipped a few rich chocolates in a plastic bag and gave them to her daughter . |
| 28 | ‘ Gramps gave them to me . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Is n't that why he gave them to you ? ’ |
| 30 | He gave them to me just before he died , and asked — ’ |