Example sentences of "[verb] to give it the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arts minister , Jordi Sole Tura , wants to give it the ornate edifice that currently houses the ministry of agriculture . |
| 2 | I promised to give it the fifty-one hours , so that 's , let me see , forty-five left . |
| 3 | Genoa boasted a powerful ancient landed nobility whose surplus wealth helped to give it the capital for its commercial enterprises ; but it also needed to import food and raw materials from elsewhere , and enjoyed a powerful economic motive for becoming a centre of commerce . |
| 4 | This award will , I trust , help dispel the old perception of Rentokil as merely a woodworm and pest control company , and to help to give it the recognition it deserves — for what it is today — a major multi-national company with a broad base of services of wide-ranging benefits ’ . |
| 5 | The Government 's invited bids to save the Vulcan , but no one 's come up with the money needed to give it the necessary overhaul . |
| 6 | They both knew what Mrs Diamond had said , but neither proposed to give it the status open discussion would confer . |
| 7 | He auditioned the song for the show and all went well , but on the night of the big gig itself , the Editor of CBS-TV Programming decided to give it the chop , fearing that the talking blues , which lampooned both the society and racism in general , might upset redneck viewers . |
| 8 | Must remember that phrase : he could see it had struck and it struck him too : he paused to give it the silent applause of a mute punctuation . |
| 9 | Accordingly , the ECSC Assembly , enlarged to give it the number of representatives the projected EDC Assembly would have , was invited on 10 September 1952 to consider and report within six months on the feasibility and structures of a European Political Community . |
| 10 | No one has yet been able to stand up to that complex and refuse to give it the money . |
| 11 | Following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union in that year [ see p. 34460 ] , the North-Rhine Westphalia administration refused to give it the necessary licence to operate [ see also p. 34444 ] . |