Example sentences of "[conj] [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 | This state of mind will transmit itself into the drawing and so give it life . |
| 3 | This state of mind will transmit itself into the drawing and so give it life . |
| 4 | 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. |
| 5 | It may be full of microbes and rotting vegetation , but these are natural and organic and only give it an attractive flavour . |
| 6 | Wherever the film was being shot , Ken was ready to take the lead — and not give it away . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | at first you could just wrought iron it round and , and just give it that |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ You think she should be pregnant for nine months and go through all the agonies of giving birth , and then give it away ? ’ |
| 12 | 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 … |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |