Example sentences of "[noun sg] give it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let mummy give it to you . |
| 2 | I 'm in fifth gear give it some welly ! |
| 3 | Local chaps the CATHERINE WHEEL give it some rocktastic welly , continuing to show their truer , head-caving colours now they do n't have to satisfy indie sensitivities . |
| 4 | Before re-assembling the valve give it a good clean and smear petroleum jelly on the piston and on the threads of the cap holding the washer , so that if necessary it can be undone more easily in the future . |
| 5 | But I think it 's time , I think we both agree that the time er well used because it 's for the because your Lordship will have a better understanding of the evidence when the plaintiff and the defendant give it from the witness box . |
| 6 | We must not only abide by a precise form , but also build up the right waves of emotion to give it full human significance . |
| 7 | It is not the authors ' intention to give it this gloss . |
| 8 | And the dam is turf Ed on the land ward side to give it the appearance of a gently sloping field . |
| 9 | But ‘ For A Child ’ only has a slight tempo shift , a trumpet solo and a blast of flugelhorn to give it some extra zest , and it 's simply not enough . |
| 10 | The singer was following an old tradition of adapting the ceremony to give it contemporary relevance , adding to the festival 's famous ‘ four questions ’ about the meaning of Passover a new and troubling one . |
| 11 | The straps had been painted in Renaissance fold mixed with cadmium red light to give it a warmer , redder appearance . |
| 12 | In your road test of the Peugeot 605 SRdt ( 20 February ) you comment that the only car to give it a run for its money is the Citroen XM . |
| 13 | This one had understood that Aurae Phiala was dead , and immense , needing no meretricious human yardstick to give it proportion . |
| 14 | She had struggled too hard for her independence and peace of mind to give it up so easily . |
| 15 | I 've a good mind to give it a miss . |
| 16 | A finish applied to the fabric to give it a watermarked appearance . |
| 17 | My great-uncle gave it me . |
| 18 | Thirdly , the Act clearly adopts as the test of danger either ‘ the greater risk of harm ’ or ‘ the risk of greater harm ’ : an elephant may not in fact be very likely to get out of control and do damage , but if it does so , its bulk gives it a great capacity for harm . |
| 19 | A herb will protect them , says the disguised angel to the brothers ; a shepherd gave it to him : |
| 20 | They grumble that the company 's membership of the British Franchise Association gave it a ring of confidence in which investors put their faith . |
| 21 | Modern technology is now so sophisticated the microprocessor-based design of the teleprinter gives it enormous power and flexibility . |
| 22 | The company says the deal gives it the opportunity to distribute financial information to clients ' branch offices by using their own hardware and networks . |
| 23 | The World Bank in Washington DC has placed an order with Reading , Berkshire-based Racal-Redac ( UK ) Ltd for 154 of its CadStar printed circuit board design packages and 57 advanced MS-DOS routers : the products will be used by participants in India 's Impact programme , set up with the help of the World Bank , to provide the country 's leading educational institutions with electronic design automation tools and other software ; Racal-Redac reckons the deal gives it some 50% of the Indian printed circuit board design software market . |
| 24 | The poet gave it to Alice Stopford Green wife of that frail and ‘ singularly attractive ’ priest of St. Philip 's , Stepney , who awoke one day to find himself famous with the publication of his Short History of the English People , one of the most vivid and colourful of histories , first issued in 1874 and later ( 1877–80 ) expanded to four handsome illustrated volumes . |
| 25 | In the last-named work he opened up lines of interpretation which , even if somewhat modified since , set firm foundations on which other scholars might build : the exuberant vigour and almost Niagara-like outpouring of scholarship gave it a memorable quality . |
| 26 | All these face north and seldom see the sun ; but in this room there is a window to the west , looking over the garden , and the afternoon and evening sun give it , even through the gloom of a London winter , a touch of warmth and glow . |
| 27 | The great blocks of nineteenth-century neoclassical building which characterise this part of Pest give it a rather grand manner , though a century of knocks has rather frayed its hauteur . |
| 28 | give it Nat good girl give it me , ta , where 's your , go and get the box |
| 29 | The first flowering plant I saw was a familiar one — the purple mountain saxifrage , Saxafraga oppositifolia to give it the scientific name . |
| 30 | This depends upon whether the Appeal Committee decides that it will have to adjourn the hearing and carry on with it later because some new and important information has been produced , or because the Committee want you or the Council to give it more information . |