Example sentences of "and give it " in BNC.

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1 Nevertheless , Kenneth Branagh has saddled up the old warhorse and given it new colours .
2 Nevertheless , Kenneth Branagh , actor , director and entrepreneur , has saddled up the old warhorse and given it new colours .
3 Ian Frazier , a writer for the New Yorker , has taken this bleak and maligned region and given it life .
4 Because British intelligence has been reluctant to spy on a legitimately elected government and has also been forbidden from keeping ministers under surveillance , MI5 has welcomed the CIA 's intervention and given it a free rein in its British operations , always provided that it can share the resulting information .
5 Okay , we could have measured that and given it as part of a spec listing , but because it really did n't feel any different ( probably because its fingerboard width , radius and frets echoed most of the competition ) that fact was rendered almost inconsequential .
6 The protector had taken the Great Seal , returned by the queen-dowager that very morning , and given it again into the chancellor 's care .
7 He 'd mapped out a route for them , and given it to her to follow .
8 Its proximity to Austria , just a few miles away , and to Lindau , the old German city on the opposite shore reached in a short journey by direct lake steamer , has cast its influence and given it a faintly cosmopolitan atmosphere .
9 According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle A ( s.a. 661 ) , Wulfhere harried Ashdown in 661 , in which year he is also said to have attacked the Isle of Wight and given it to Aethelwealh , king of the southern Saxons .
10 By 1661 Gurle had raised the hardy nectarine Elruge and given it his own name reversed , with an extra e for euphony .
11 Have you ever walked up to a fox and given it a cuddle without it trying to bite your arms off ?
12 When she 'd finished and given it to him , they both sat at her tiny kitchen table .
13 Responding to criticism from environmentalists , the government has increased the Inspectorate 's staff and budget , and given it the status of an independent agency .
14 Yeah but they 've tak they 've taken they 've taken it a stage further and er prettied it up and given it another facility .
15 He had taken her heart and given it wings .
16 Now in the House of Lords , she has written her biography and given it a title which could well sum up her life , Fighting All The Way .
17 Lawrence book and given it a highly fluid feel .
18 And they couldn't 've well for example with taxation , they could 've erm not taxed the rich peasants at all and then just put all their erm their sort of focus upon the poor peasants and got their income through them and also with land , they could 've just not given any land to poor peasants who were inefficient and given it all to the rich peasants and really gone for a capitalist state .
19 If he felt that she had something genuine to give , then perhaps she should go ahead and give it .
20 But another judge will come along and give it a fine mark , but
21 ‘ It will be quite hard to step back and give it up , ’ he admitted last night .
22 And maybe if you feel up to it one evening this week you could go round and give it a dig up .
23 What we 're trying to do is to write cricket bats , so that when we throw up an idea and give it a little knock , it might … travel …
24 And give it time ! says Sebastian .
25 If you do not know what a tree or shrub is , exercise clemency and give it a year 's grace to demonstrate its worth before you turn it over to the axeman .
26 The most vociferously opposed union maintains that all the problems could be solved were the government to remove the PTT from the financial tutelage of the finance ministry and give it an independent budget .
27 For them , the solution to the problem of pro-government bias is simple : the broadcasters should treat government and governing party as one and the same , and give it the same coverage as the main opposition party .
28 If your employee is not entitled to SMP , you need to complete form SMP1 and give it to her together with any maternity certificate which she may have given you .
29 We can only pass an Act of Parliament and give it to them with a slap on the back and a ‘ best of British luck ’ : ‘ Here 's your constitution , ’ we say , ‘ now do what you like with it ; you can because you are now independent . ’
30 The BBC still , happily , seemed keen to see the film produced and so Gerard budgeted it to be made as simply as possible in 16mm for television , with the hope that cinema distributors would find it irresistible and give it a release on the big screen .
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