Example sentences of "[verb] it a [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be a bit awkward when you start off but once you 've done it a bit it gets easier . |
| 2 | Why not give it a try yourself ? |
| 3 | You 'll love that Caroline , I did n't give it a thought I 'm sorry ? |
| 4 | That 's why that , at the moment I do n't see it well I do n't see it a necessity you to get a pension . |
| 5 | Cos I 'd lost about half a stone in weight , and I was cut down on chocolate biscuits , and I , what I 'd been doing I was was at my tea , at five o'clock , I was eating another at ten o'clock , I reckon I was overdoing it a bit you know with the I was trying to cut down a lot |
| 6 | But anyway I gave , it 's fifty P I gave the lass who was selling it a pound you see and she said here you are waiting to give me my change , I said no , no and she said and I said to her I said you know you need it more than I do and she she got tears in her eyes and I I thought I mean I I do n't know if I can articulate this properly . |
| 7 | Give it a flick it 'll go for a long way because there 's no , there 's very little friction on the ice and erm the second one is the , the awkward one . |
| 8 | And they told it without on-screen questioning , though the programme is skilfully structured to give it a coherence it might have lacked . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I would also actually suggest that again if you wanted to ease it a bit I 'd pick up a point also made just now er in that P P G refers to building and the E two refers to development . |
| 12 | This autobiography has nothing to say of courtship , but that , as Dr Vincent has suggested , could well be because working-class autobiographers did not judge it a subject their readers wanted to know about , and many of them in any case lacked the command of an emotional language to describe their feelings . |
| 13 | We have a different role , but nevertheless and even , an important one is perhaps in even looking further ahead than the Emergency Planning and therefore I would support er in being brief I would support very much erm Mr 's er motion if you can call it a motion which has been seconded and I hope that other members will will agree that erm we can pass this on to the Chief Executive who obviously will be doing this in any case , but it would give er a a an added er measure if you like er I 'm talking in terms of member involvement in pressing for er a wider look of what has happened after this sad flood has been dealt with . |
| 14 | Now in the House of Lords , she has written her biography and given it a title which could well sum up her life , Fighting All The Way . |
| 15 | Thrill to the spills of those white-knuckle rides and make it a day you and the kids will never forget . |
| 16 | Well the rubber 's a , well , you call it a teatle you call it a teatle it 's a rubber . |
| 17 | Well the rubber 's a , well , you call it a teatle you call it a teatle it 's a rubber . |
| 18 | The one I 've got is er , is like , they call it a bilingual it 's , it 's metric and |
| 19 | And we pray that You will prepare the Christians there for Alan 's induction , making it a body which is joyful in worship , and united in witness , working , caring , praising and loving , to the glory of Your Name . |
| 20 | The Aztecs , perhaps recognising how odd this was , gave it a name which means " water monster " — axolotl . |
| 21 | I 'm not comfortable but I suppose if I gave it a go I would get used to it . |
| 22 | Many people heard that but only Cecilia seemed to have heard that first single clang as Ernest , her brother , in freeing the rope from the cleat , gave it a tug which caused the bell to spring upwards and fall again . |
| 23 | He gave it a stab which only just carried it up the slope and onto the edge of the green . |
| 24 | But though everyone was near dead of curiosity , he had kept it a secret what he was planning . |