Example sentences of "and [adv] give it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only by constant bargaining can a president hope to bring order to the inherent chaos of the US political system and thereby give it direction and purpose . |
| 2 | ‘ It took a lot of thinking about — living in your own home and happy there for fifty years and suddenly to give it away . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Hitherto , the Greeks had instinctively interpreted their experience through their myths and so given it " the stamp of the eternal " . |
| 5 | This state of mind will transmit itself into the drawing and so give it life . |
| 6 | This state of mind will transmit itself into the drawing and so give it life . |
| 7 | Thus , to make the whole hard disk open for others to read , the owner would publish the root directory ( C : \ ) and perhaps give it a name ( eg. |
| 8 | It may be full of microbes and rotting vegetation , but these are natural and organic and only give it an attractive flavour . |
| 9 | Wherever the film was being shot , Ken was ready to take the lead — and not give it away . |
| 10 | Because salary company car BUPA and all that is only commission in another form and they can take it away and and not give it to you just the same as any other company . |
| 11 | And just to give it a centre . |
| 12 | at first you could just wrought iron it round and , and just give it that |
| 13 | ( Oh , by the way , I always remembered that line and later gave it to Will Shakespeare . |
| 14 | As it would not fit into the studio , and also to soften the image , and hence give it a greater depth of field , Ray Cusick and Christopher Barry agreed to have all the shots of the model done on film , realising that video would show definition too harshly , making the model look too much like a model . |
| 15 | My skin was brown and my hair streaked with nature 's own blond from the salt and sun : my very bones seemed to have absorbed the heat and now gave it back in the form of a glowing sense of confidence and well-being . |
| 16 | She first nourishes the child in her womb and then gives it her milk … |
| 17 | Thomson Jochim and Gemmell accepts the gift and then gives it back to Oldfield . |
| 18 | On the contrary , Montaigne argues that the legal procedures common in the Europe of his day by which " under the cloak of piety and religion … neighbours and fellow citizens [ were allowed ] to tear by rack and torture a body still full of feeling , to roast it by degrees and then give it to be trampled and eaten by dogs and swine " were a more horrible form of savagery than anything he had described as prevailing among the Brazilian cannibals . |
| 19 | ‘ You think she should be pregnant for nine months and go through all the agonies of giving birth , and then give it away ? ’ |
| 20 | the toughest crack though … is for the pilots … the jockeys … they starve themselves to ride light … they drive themselves thousands of miles from race to race … and then give it everything to go for broke … |
| 21 | These are fictions about experimenting with an impecunious and occasionally feckless life of adventure , and then giving it up . |
| 22 | Gold made up less than a quarter of the Company 's exports from West Africa ; its charter recognized recent changes in trading patterns by laying down that the Company was to provide slaves for the English colonies in the Caribbean , and then giving it a monopoly of the trade . |
| 23 | ‘ On average I suppose it 's fair to say that they are down here once every three months so we know exactly what they want and how to give it to them . ’ |
| 24 | Respondents were also left a self-completion questionnaire and asked to fill it in and either give it to the interviewer when he or she called back or return it by post ; the response rate to this was 93 per cent . |
| 25 | No , because I thought wicked you know , I 've for Monday I get to bloody fucking lie in bed and then like I have to go to flipping school and bloody give it back . |