Example sentences of "[noun sg] give it [det] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm in fifth gear give it some welly !
2 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 .
3 It is not the authors ' intention to give it this gloss .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Medirace needed a trading vehicle to give it some cashflow to stay in business .
7 But if you 're religiously inclined , then clearly the universe looks a bit different , because the universe has a creator , and having a creator gives it some kind of meaning .
8 ( In Scotland the Crown at the moment does not have the power to appeal against sentences which it regards as too lenient , although moves are under way to give it such a right . )
9 It is also a good idea to give it some toys .
10 ‘ He who controls the past controls the future ’ is the message of his last utopia : a sense of history is ultimately power , since a people is guided and governed by a collective sense of what it means to itself and to the world , and history gives it that sense , and only history .
11 Now is the time to give it those tools .
12 There are verses and choruses and chick backing vocals and a big Chris Hughes production to give it that radio-friendly oomph .
13 It has used the ‘ in ’ colours for the summer — gold , olive , turquoise , pink and navy — and many of the styles feature appliqué embroidery to give it that feminine look .
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