Example sentences of "would [verb] give it " in BNC.

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1 As a standalone machine I would 've given it a fourth star .
2 So far as the housewife is concerned , time limits imposed by factors outside her control mean that the pace of her work is too fast for each task to get the attention she would like to give it .
3 Nigel Mansell says that things are changing and he 's better than ever and he would like to give it another shot …
4 The Collector had gone up to join Ford on the roof because he wanted to be in a position from which he could give the order to retreat at the right moment ; in his own mind there was no doubt but that he would have to give it sooner or later .
5 She knew what he wanted before he spoke , and also knew she would have to give it to him .
6 Being the senior trainers for the whole county could be a full time job , and I am afraid that if that were the case we would have to give it all up .
7 Mr Jarvis , who spent £40m expanding the chain on the Continent in recent years , said the decision followed Whitbread 's inability to negotiate a new exit clause in the franchise agreement which would have given it more protection .
8 The town of Knossos had reached a size of not less than 45 hectares by the time its first temple was built in 1930 BC , which would have given it a population of 12,000–18,000 .
9 That would have given it around 90% of seats in the lower house and , since the opposition would never accept that prospect , the bill seemed destined for the dustbin .
10 Clara had actually heard one constant church attender , caught out donating a small charitable sum to the Vicar , defend herself to Mrs Maugham by saying that she had n't really meant to give it , and that she never would have given it if it had n't been that her little boy had just given up Sunday school .
11 Fair proportionality would have given it 19 or 20 seats : it actually won 14 .
12 Do you think it 's at all possible that anybody who has this number , like presumably your agent has it or friends have it , is it at all possible anyone would have given it out to somebody ?
13 I must repeat , however , that , if I had had the information in the form in which it was requested , I would have given it .
14 Now originally he would have given it to the servers who would have taken it out here .
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