Example sentences of "to give it a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | They had to give it a quarter turn you see with a spanner . |
2 | The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation agreed to give the fund a grant of £5,000 for 1993/94 and the Eastern Arts Board recently agreed to give it a £2,000 grant . |
3 | The departure from her old home and her arrival in her new one will be a tremendous double adjustment for her to make , so you should try to give it a sense of occasion . |
4 | And they told it without on-screen questioning , though the programme is skilfully structured to give it a coherence it might have lacked . |
5 | — You 've got to give it a chance . |
6 | But friends assured me there was more to this grand range of mountains than my experience had suggested , and so to give it a chance I went back to climb Cairn Gorm properly , giving the bridies as wide a body swerve as possible . |
7 | A gigantic undertaking like the invasion of Europe needed at least a few days of good weather to give it a chance , and we appeared to be settled into a period of wind , rain and low cloud . |
8 | To give it a chance of success , some French troops had to be withdrawn from south of the Somme and their lines taken over by Haig 's men , disrupting his own long-planned attack in Flanders . |
9 | ‘ When talent comes through you want to give it a chance , ’ said Gooch . |
10 | Konrad Adenauer had already suggested that West Germany should be allowed the means to defend itself , and that the surest way of winning the population over to a massive commitment to democracy was to give it a stake in the responsibility of defending Western Europe . |
11 | El Pais , Madrid 's leading newspaper , says that the Reina Sofía was born and has developed ‘ without a clear museographic plan , lacking in international credibility ’ and exploiting ‘ Guernica ’ to give it a prestige it would otherwise lack . |
12 | ‘ If we can prove this works , ’ Mr Dowding said , ‘ I am sure there are a lot of other farmers who want to give it a try and are just waiting . |
13 | Some of the case histories seem scientifically a little scanty but there is sufficient evidence of its effectiveness in the treatment of arthritis for sufferers to give it a try . |
14 | Work out the pros and cons of what you are considering , and if your instinct is telling you to give it a try then go ahead . |
15 | ‘ I might be prepared to give it a try . ’ |
16 | There was nothing for me going on down there , so I come to Nottingham to give it a try . |
17 | A chance meeting with Dr Kathy Lang at a database user group and the subsequent investigation of Ventura led Tony Gamble to make the decision to give it a try . |
18 | I never thought it would work , but I felt we ought to give it a try . ’ |
19 | Well I said , I 'm going , I said , I 'm going to give it a try . |
20 | ‘ I think you ought to give it a try . |
21 | ‘ All right , Seb , I 'm willing to give it a try . |
22 | ‘ It was then that I decided to give it a try . |
23 | They were prepared to compromise because they I 'm sure that you know you ca n't imagine them not being really but because they 're such erm they were outraged at this machine but they were prepared to give it a try but the way it was bulldozed through that once the machine was there there was no choice then and almost you know get going boys get more and more and more slate you know greed they felt the employer was being greedy at the expense of quality . |
24 | Are you going to give it a try though ? |
25 | Dozens of disabled from all over Gloucestershire turned up to give it a try . |
26 | The RAF says the Russians are in one of the worst possible places in the world for a rescue but they have to give it a try . |
27 | The RAF says the Russians are in one of the worst possible places in the world for a rescue but they have to give it a try . |
28 | It will be comforting to me at any rate personally to know that even so eminent a , a , er an ornament of the present administration as my Noble Friends also found these th th this material a matter for stumbling and was not perhaps inclined to give it a crown of lucidity . |
29 | You 'd have to be daft not to want to give it a go . |
30 | Phoebe decided to give it a go . |