Example sentences of "give it [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Given the SDLP 's track record , it is inconceivable that Labour-minded people in Northern Ireland would ever give it their support . |
2 | ‘ They want no part of it and do not give it their support . |
3 | for saying I 'll give it your sister . |
4 | Get your coat I 'll give it your dad . |
5 | The coat is a yellowish grey with large , handsome grey blotches , the ‘ clouds ’ that give it its name . |
6 | You give it your name , and it 's all above-board , or something . |
7 | Hug the person or creature , give it your love , and walk on along the forest path . |
8 | You may find that you 've worried about whether you 'll be seen as weak of you give it your blessing . |
9 | Give it our Colin , I never liked it Albert , I did n't want that one . |
10 | Lucy seemed to take it in , and to give it her consideration . |
11 | We hope that you are still enjoying taking part in the survey and will continue to give it your support . |
12 | From a letter to my mother dated 2 May , which has escaped destruction , it is clear that I had just written to Eliot explaining that I realized the undesirability of publication , unless indeed Rowse himself were prepared to give it his endorsement . |
13 | She wants the Monster out of her room , of course she does , but to give it MY room ! ? |
14 | Alice knew that it was the situation he was examining ; he was not used to this informality , to group-living , but he was giving it his consideration . |
15 | I was already giving it my support with diet and positive thinking ; now I would add an overwhelming direct frontal assault with thorough , serious visualization . |
16 | A single-track lane had taken them down through a straggling copse to a brackish meander of the Beaulieu river and Mossop had stopped the car just short of the cottage so they could see the building , the garden , the overgrown jetty which had given it its name and the shadowed finger of the pontoon reaching out into deeper water , without themselves being seen at all . |
17 | A New Brutalist Conservative government has brought the moral Right in from the cold of post-60s permissive liberalism and has given it its head . |
18 | A sense of smell is the first and primary thing for the animal because it gives it its sense of direction and it 's very important and it goes gently cold , delicately as the dark snow . |
19 | But though it may sound free and uninhibited , the skeleton framework of harmony or a theme , which can remain almost completely hidden , supports the whole and gives it its coherence . |
20 | The question really means : What is it about the idea of a god that gives it its stability and penetrance in the cultural environment ? |
21 | Because the compression ratio is twice that of a petrol engine , diesel runs hotter , and therefore more economically , right from start-up , which gives it its edge in stop-start journeys . |
22 | Difficult modes of speech may be coined to convey difficult themes , but the private nature of the artist 's invention is what gives it its power . |
23 | The scope of the legal doctrine , and its implications for constitutional change , can not be settled except by analysis of the political morality which gives it its authority . |
24 | She first nourishes the child in her womb and then gives it her milk … |
25 | Her expression was jaundiced therefore as she gave it her attention . |
26 | They gave it their photograph albums they gave it their records |
27 | Coloureds and Indians have tended to support the National Party — one estimate is that 60% of them gave it their backing in mid-1992 — because they saw it as a bulwark against black domination . |
28 | They gave it their sleep it gobbled their dreams |
29 | One of the reasons why pressure from reform-minded people outside the ranks of the government intensified in 1858 derived from the fact that , up to a point , the authorities gave it their blessing . |
30 | They gave it their photograph albums they gave it their records |