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
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