Example sentences of "give [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | finally , when both my parents were away somewhere , I took the opportunity to draw out of the Post Office bank all the very modest amount of money that people had given me on special occasions like my christening . |
| 2 | ( This explains the small amount of attention given them by contemporary theorists of enlightenment in contrast to the adulation lavished on the Prussian and Russian rulers . ) |
| 3 | The witches , as the followers of Baal , take the attributes and names of God and give them to other powers or to false gods . |
| 4 | Dad give them into little bits . |
| 5 | Parents give to their children , and continue to give more than their children ever give them in most cases , although one situation in which this flow often is reversed is where children have migrated to a more affluent country , and expect to send money back to their parents ( see for example , Thorogood , 1987 ) . |
| 6 | except the pills they give you in these places just to keep you quiet |
| 7 | Defending barrister Thomas Teague told Mr Jones yesterday : ‘ You used to steal things from your foster parents and you used to give them to other children at school . |
| 8 | I note that it is the Liberal Democrats ' policy to take power away from parents and governors and to give it to centralised bureaucrats , and that is precisely like the Labour party policy as in so many things . |
| 9 | It would be a criminal waste to give it to most women . ’ |
| 10 | We 're giving it for six months . |
| 11 | Giving credit for extended periods is always more risky than giving it for shorter periods . |
| 12 | He had to try three of the numbers which the Substitute had given him on identical slips of paper , each of which had ‘ after eight-thirty ’ written in small , neat writing across the bottom . |
| 13 | and gives them to different postmen to take to different houses |
| 14 | But it is worthwhile to reiterate that , in a sense , every book published about recent history is of value as a source and the conventional ‘ official ’ documentation does not necessarily occupy in recent history the commanding place which its comparative isolation in a sea of illiteracy gives it in earlier epochs . |
| 15 | Burrows and Hunter 's general conclusion is that " from the views given us by local authorities the 1988 Housing Act 's strengthening of the anti-harassment laws have made prosecutions slightly easier for local authorities but , in practice , there is often a failure to prosecute for a range of non-legal reasons " ( p. 41 ) . |