Example sentences of "give the [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you had done as I said , and given the keys to the princess , you would now be dressed in silk , sitting at her left hand . |
| 2 | I , Edward the Eighth , King of Great Britain , King of India , King of Australia , King of New Zealand , King of Canada , King of Kenya , King of Nigeria , King of Burma , King of Malaya , King of Singapore , and King of thirty-two other countries , have today given the crown to my brother George . |
| 3 | The delay in publication of the original book would probably have been much longer had Medvedev not given the manuscript to Andrei Sakharov to read in October 1988 . |
| 4 | Perhaps — but the years in Peru will hopefully have given the lie to that one . |
| 5 | The charm — that demon glitter of narrowed eyes which had given the lie to all previous insults — was conspicuously absent . |
| 6 | An honest man , when he 's given the chance to be . |
| 7 | Edmondson , meanwhile , has bought himself an adjustable music stool with some of his £100 , and given the rest to charity . |
| 8 | Erm but erm that 's a , a very important point and er just remember that you have actually given the money to the other partner , technically in terms of tax anyway , and er that er can , can have an affect on things . |
| 9 | ‘ I wish you had not given the money to the Moslems . ’ |
| 10 | Well , they 've they 've given the money to the appeal . |
| 11 | This was the third year running that Booker Fitch had given the award to students on the HCIMA course , and it attracted the greatest number of entries to date . |
| 12 | Larder , who has given the captaincy to tough utility forward Paul Hulme , is also expecting great things from giant Welsh second rower Paul Moriarty . |
| 13 | As a result of these anti-avoidance provisions , the foreign business carve-out is excluded , and the general COB Rules apply in relation to the customer concerned , where : ( 1 ) A UK office executes a transaction with or for a UK private customer on the instructions of a non-UK office ; or ( 2 ) A UK office gives investment advice in relation to any transaction to a non-UK office , which the non-UK office passes on to ( or uses for the benefit of ) a UK private customer if ( in either case ) : ( a ) the UK office itself transmitted the order to a non-UK office of the firm ( even if a different one from that instructing it ) ; ( b ) the UK office has itself advised the customer in relation to the transaction concerned ( and the customer has then directly or indirectly given the order to the non-UK office which deals through the UK office ) ; or ( c ) the UK office has advised the customer to deal through or seek advice from a non-UK office of the firm ( even if the relevant prescribed disclosure was made ) . |
| 14 | The South African Rugby Football Union has accepted an invitation to tour France in October and has also given the nod to the RFU invitation . |
| 15 | Means ( 1988 ) argues that some authors treat the total group of " pensioners " ( a group which may cover 40 years given the trend to early retirement ) as a " special needs " category . |
| 16 | Given the straits to which the British economy was reduced in 1947 , when it was necessary to ration even bread and potatoes , an outflow of capital equal to about 8 per cent of national income and nearly equal to total net domestic capital formation ( including stock-building ) is a very extraordinary event . |
| 17 | It was interesting to note that in each of his previous six lives , which ranged from the fifteenth century to the late 1890s , Martin had been given the opportunity to be a ‘ teacher ’ . |
| 18 | All patients referred to the ENP were given the opportunity to be seen by a doctor . |
| 19 | Buckley LJ in the Court of Appeal provided some useful guidance as to precisely what rights or powers the individual must have before he can be said to have transferred or given the opportunity to another person so that the other person can make the gain . |
| 20 | But maybe cos there was no opportunity , they did n't see there to be I mean like they did n't know any better but as soon as , I mean things are rapidly changing they 're given the opportunity to erm I mean through the struggles to actually take charge of the conditions and to gain so some material and perhaps there was beginnings of them seeing that well perhaps we ought to look more to this sub-culture and to erm |
| 21 | Visitors were given the opportunity to ‘ Try-a-Sport ’ which included activities such as canoeing , croquet , weights , aerobics and trampolining . |
| 22 | Right now she 'd have given the nightclub to anyone who could restore calm to a pulse which had gone completely haywire and a brain in danger of short-circuiting . |
| 23 | These were that interrogation rooms in police holding centres should be monitored by silent , closed-circuit television and that a prisoner should be given the right to be visited by a solicitor every forty-eight hours until either released or charged . |
| 24 | Moscow noted that the United States ‘ was given the right to further use of some sixty military facilities , including big air force bases , nuclear arms depots and radio surveillance centres located close to the southern borders of the USSR ’ . |
| 25 | It is the very essence of a lease that a tenant should be given the right to " exclusive possession " — the right to exclude all other persons , including the landlord , from the premises . |
| 26 | The Health expert , Chloe Fisher , says it is a baby 's right to be given the right to breastfeeding . |
| 27 | The type of abortion I am referring to is induced and I believe that the woman should be given the right to be able to choose whether she needs one , rather than certain religious leaders or laws . |
| 28 | This motion calls for safety reps to be given the right to be involved in all workplace environmental issues , including inspections of all plant and equipment , assessing the compliance with company policies and the regulatory requirements . |
| 29 | He landed on the person 's head who had given the ring to Tim in front of him and was sent to court at Newgate . |
| 30 | Given the challenge to this claim by those who label the country ‘ totalitarian ’ , the state of the prisons takes on a special significance . |