Example sentences of "gave it a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She removed his wet topcoat , and gave it a shake before hanging it on the hall-stand . |
| 2 | The Aztecs , perhaps recognising how odd this was , gave it a name which means " water monster " — axolotl . |
| 3 | We mouthed the hope , gave it a name : |
| 4 | He found another lever and gave it a nudge . |
| 5 | They just r r rammed their way and you had an man the they had a man they tell me I I 've never seen one But erm this was as far as I can make out er by the They had a man standing by you see with a a spanner and er gave it a quarter turn every time it hammered the the drill sort of hit the rock , went into the and hammered . |
| 6 | So as an aircraft came out of the engineering wing I gave it a test . |
| 7 | He picked up the envelope and gave it a bit of a shake . |
| 8 | The thought may come to mind of stipulating , say , that a cause or condition-set made an effect more probable than not-that is , gave it a probability of 0.5 + . |
| 9 | The top two sheets are almost a summary , for all the staff that I never actually got sent out , but it has been to the staff consultative committee , who who gave it a nod . |
| 10 | Er no cos I realized that I was that it was totally wrong so I just gave it a miss and went on to something else . |
| 11 | The plates still had some food on them but although I found some meat , it had a strange gloopy liquid on it so I gave it a miss . |
| 12 | And you did that with them and then laid it down , you see , and then you gathered your sheaf and put it on that and turned it round and gave it a twist like that and then And that was how it was done . |
| 13 | I gave it a couple of minutes , then made for the broch and the steps up to the landing where the girls had gone yesterday . |
| 14 | For instance , I recall one evening he came to me and took out a matchbox and he gave it a couple of shakes ; I thought there were matches inside , hut he opened the box and inside were some very evil-looking pills , about the size of , or a little larger , than a Beecham 's pill . |
| 15 | and gave it a couple of coats this morning |
| 16 | I 'm not comfortable but I suppose if I gave it a go I would get used to it . |
| 17 | The militant , comprising four fields ( Kent , Scotland , South Wales and Yorkshire ) which consistently gave the strongest support to the strike call , although none gave it a majority at every ballot . |
| 18 | A Dutchman in Volkswagen ( I have always had a soft spot for the Dutch ) gave it a push in the rear from time to time , but I shrank from asking him to push it and us to one of the Channel ports . |
| 19 | This part of the camp was in itself no more attractive than the part in which we lived , but the very fact that we did not live there , that we did not know every inch of its dusty ground , that normally we only saw it from the distance , gave it a charm of its own . |
| 20 | In addition , the finished cloth had a natural , peasanty look , often full of flaws and slubs , that gave it a charm and character which coincided perfectly with the image Laura sought . |
| 21 | True , I 'd had trouble with nightmares the two nights following the accident , but the medicine which Doctor Keylock brought sorted that out , and afterwards I never gave it a thought . |
| 22 | But Yanek took no notice of the goblin 's prompting , he gave it a kick , and said , " I ca n't remember what the sun-god told me , Grandfather . " |
| 23 | The first night audience was so impressed with Moby Dick , it gave it a standing ovation . |
| 24 | Tamar gave it a flick , which sent it swirling across the room . |
| 25 | If someone got the pendulum , gave it a flick |
| 26 | I know if people stopped carping and gave it a chance , they would get hooked . |
| 27 | Corinth was also famously cosmopolitan : its prostitutes gave it a reputation somewhere between nineteenth-century Paris and Post-Second World War Saigon : ‘ not everybody has the wealth to go to Corinth ’ the proverb said , and those who did go there might be unlucky and take away more than pleasant memories , judging from the terracotta penises still visible along with models of other parts of the body in the Corinth Museum — dedications by sufferers from venereal disease ( see also AJA , 1941 , 442f . ) . |
| 28 | When I got home with it , I gave it a wash , and tried it out almost immediately . |
| 29 | Endill gave it a try . |
| 30 | He gave it a try . |