Example sentences of "just give the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've just given the whole of life a miss for nearly a year , all because of bloody Adrian . |
| 2 | It was the following weekend and Rachel was helping her father , who had just given the lawn its last cut before winter , to dispose of the grass cuttings on the compost heap at the bottom of the garden . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've just given the barman his own show on the telly , ’ he explained , handing them around . |
| 4 | English National Opera has just given the world premiere of Robin Holloway 's Clarissa , after the Richardson novel , while next month the Almeida Festival will introduce The Intelligence Park by the Irish composer Gerald Barry , one of the most distinctive and exciting of the younger Europeans . |
| 5 | Cleaning may consist of a quick dust or ‘ whip round ’ for the harassed housewife , and to some eyes at least it will still look as though the house has been cleaned — hence the expression ‘ eye service ’ ( 'I 've just given the house eye service today' ) . |
| 6 | It would just give the driver that extra split-second to react to a potentially dangerous situation . |
| 7 | I think I 'll just give the hospital a ring and then I 'll go up to bed . ’ |
| 8 | It might just give the game the boost it needs over there . |
| 9 | And er that they they still , even when I have to do things , which are not very erm happy either for me or for them , erm I 'll just give the example of removing a child from |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll just give the front step a scrub . |
| 11 | Just give the player to your right |
| 12 | What you should do — if you were sophisticated — was just give the glass a swirl and sniff , which would tell you whether or not the wine was off . |
| 13 | Right , if you just give the command Plot T C Plot space T C then press the return key |
| 14 | Well just give the diploma back to . |
| 15 | I can not pursue the thought , but just give the hint for your commiseration . ’ |
| 16 | It may be used just to give the researcher a feel for what is being studied ; as a resource to back up or complement evidence produced from other sources ; or as evidence in itself , as the topic of the research . |
| 17 | It is bad to lapse into the jargon without conveying its meaning and its connotations , because that is lazy ; and unforgivable to use it just to give the impression of being in with the chaps . |
| 18 | And I think that the , just giving the example of Ross Macdonald , that this other kind of popular literature manages to avoid that . |
| 19 | He said he just gave the driver an ‘ actor 's slap ’ to the face . |
| 20 | ‘ I just gave the knob on the end a push ! ’ |