Example sentences of "[vb mod] give it [adj] " 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 | If I see one that looks like it 's growing good , I might give it some extra feed and talk to it a bit . ’ |
| 3 | At a time when product design has lost its way , the gallery fails to provide a proper historical context that might give it some sense of direction . |
| 4 | ‘ Well at least it 's not too far to go to get to work in the morning , I 'll give it that . ’ |
| 5 | It 's quite a place , I 'll give it that . |
| 6 | ‘ We 'll give it another twenty-four hours , and see what the British come up with , ’ said Odell finally . |
| 7 | All right , we 'll give it another day or two , but I 'm seeing you back home now , and do n't try to talk me out of it . |
| 8 | Brian and Terry remained slightly more cautious , Anderson saying , ‘ I 'll give it a Ben , ’ a reference to Ben Weir who 'd always said , ‘ I 'll give it another month . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We 'll give it another quarter of an hour or so , ’ Laura said , ‘ and I 'll try for another reduction . |
| 10 | this was on , in the morning , in the afternoon they said his leg would deteriorate , they 've got to take the whole leg off so he said we 'll give it another go and see what happens , course by this time he said the operation has n't |
| 11 | I 'll give it another grand on th eights . |
| 12 | I 'll give it three years before it starts going downhill again |
| 13 | I 'll give it half an hour , maybe an hour or so , then I 'll call the local paper and ask for Frank 's contact . |
| 14 | I 'll give it ten minutes more , he thought , then I 'll push off home . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll give it some paint . ’ |
| 16 | I 'll give it some thought . ’ |
| 17 | It 'll give it some form of protection which we have n't got round to doing the erm oh |
| 18 | So we could give it all to you and you could bank it . |
| 19 | So perhaps you could give it some thought … ’ |
| 20 | I 'd give it all up , for him . |
| 21 | Want you in the office and he 'd give it all back again |
| 22 | Cos every time Jerry 'd walk round that corner he 'd give it all that . |
| 23 | ‘ The plant has been neglected for a few years so I thought I 'd give it some plant food and water and to my astonishment this was the result , ’ said Margaret . |
| 24 | I 'd give it three stars , or ( as Michelin says ) vaut le detour . |
| 25 | Not completely successful but entertaining on the whole , like a good TV movie , I 'd give it three out of five . ’ |
| 26 | So you really ought to give it some thought . |
| 27 | It completely failed to influence public opinion when it emerged from its secret society chrysalis in 1939 , and in spite of its extremism and the uncertainties of the law with regard to seditious libel where public order was not threatened , the authorities decided that any move against the group would give it unwanted publicity and might achieve more harm than good . |
| 28 | And this is how Freud explains Wilson 's inability to stand up to the other men , like Woodrow , like Cle Clements or Lloyd George , who were rather aggressive , and er , were , were kind of pushing all the time , what they could out of the , out of the peace settlement , and what , er the book shows , is that Woodrow Wilson would have confrontations with them and say a lot of fine words , and then the next day , he would , he would give it all away , as it were , he would , he would be ill or he 'll backtrack , or when the actual agreements came to be signed , he , he would n't do what he said he would , er , wh what he did . |
| 29 | Kaas ' team would give it that . |
| 30 | I would give it that one and I |