Example sentences of "give it [num] " in BNC.
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1 | You feel at first that on a bad day ( there are quite a few ) Patrick might give it one of the kicks that the novelist seems about to direct at his readers . |
2 | As I 'm sure you 're aware , we need people on it who will give it one hundred percent … . ’ |
3 | Let me , give it two minutes in the microwave . |
4 | So , she said , up to Christmas she says I 'm gon na give it two more week and if I ai n't last it I 'm jacking it in . |
5 | I 'd give it three stars , or ( as Michelin says ) vaut le detour . |
6 | I 'll give it three years before it starts going downhill again |
7 | Not completely successful but entertaining on the whole , like a good TV movie , I 'd give it three out of five . ’ |
8 | I 'll give it ten minutes more , he thought , then I 'll push off home . |
9 | Give it fifty years and I 'll bet you that the baker and all the rest of the folks , it 'll be coming from a supermarket , but they 'll be delivering stuff that you 've put on your computer . |
10 | I give it two nights . |
11 | Go upstairs and paint that room in a minute , give it two coats today |
12 | Give it six months at least . |
13 | If you find next time you need that remedy that it again does not work , put another mark on the bottle and give it one more chance before discarding the whole bottle . |
14 | Would it , he was thinking , be like the ending of Forster 's as yet unpublished Maurice , a somewhat tame homo novel of which he was to say , commenting on the male lovers setting up house at the end , ‘ I give it three weeks ? ’ |
15 | You 'll need come a good few times and give it three four six months . |
16 | OK , give it ten years and perhaps only 20 per cent will be producing what 60 per cent or 70 per cent were twenty-five years ago . |
17 | they , if , I mean , if the pass mark is ninety percent and I 've already decided it 's worth a pass then I give it ninety percent you see ! |
18 | Lévi-Strauss ' objections to Sartre 's theory of history on the grounds of its ethnocentrism was certainly to the point , demonstrating that one lesson of Sartre 's Herculean attempt to make history truth , and to give it one meaning , was the relation of such history to Western cultural imperialism . |
19 | In the coils adjacent to his wrists he located the python 's cloaca and managed to give it one hell of a goosing . |
20 | Hoffman-La Roche will take up new Amersham shares to give it 5 per cent of the UK company at a price of 460p , a 12.5 per cent premium to Tuesday 's closing price . |
21 | With half the 64 Senate seats up for election , the PRI won 31 , giving it 61 in all . |
22 | The vote for the neo-Fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano-Destra Nazionale ( MSI-DN ) slipped back from 5.9 per cent in 1987 to 5.4 per cent — giving it 34 seats in the Chamber of Deputies — in spite of the fact that Alessandra Mussolini , the 28-year-old granddaughter of Benito Mussolini , stood successfully as a candidate for the MSI-DN in its Naples stronghold . |
23 | In the 1970s the government of Valery Giscard D'Estaing made a huge investment in the French telecommunications industry , giving it one of the most modern infrastructures in the world . |
24 | And he gulled , and also impressed , the bystanders by lifting up one of the horse 's front hoofs , giving it two or three sharp taps with his knuckles and saying confidently : ‘ Right ! |
25 | FARNELL Electronics has confounded the doubters and increased earnings per share yet again in the recessionary 12 months to February 2 , giving it 26 years of uninterrupted growth . |
26 | But the SDLP expected to add another seat to its team , giving it eight benches to occupy in the council chamber . |
27 | The merger of the two operations will transform Hawker Siddeley into the UK 's biggest supplier while giving it 10 per cent of the European market - putting it in third place behind the Swedish-Swiss combine Asea Brown Boveri and Siemens of West Germany . |
28 | And I 'm giving it three wipes each time . |
29 | Fair proportionality would have given it 19 or 20 seats : it actually won 14 . |
30 | American herbs such as this one have a history associated with the original Indian inhabitants of the North American continent including Canada , and it was Oswego Indians in particular who used the leaves as the beverage which gives it one of its common names . |