Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] give it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My sons gave it to me . |
| 2 | ‘ I did n't buy it , my parents gave it to me , when they changed it . ’ |
| 3 | A degenerate male voice exhorted its hearers to give it love or let it die in peace . |
| 4 | The spiny anteater , too , has a long pointed snout , but its spines give it a superficial resemblance to a hedgehog rather than to another typical anteater . |
| 5 | A parallel Committee on the Staffing of Local Government was established at the same time ‘ to consider the existing methods of recruiting local government officers and of using them ; and what changes might help local authorities to get the best possible service and help their officers to give it ’ ( Mallaby 1967:iii ) . |
| 6 | Corinth was also famously cosmopolitan : its prostitutes gave it a reputation somewhere between nineteenth-century Paris and Post-Second World War Saigon : ‘ not everybody has the wealth to go to Corinth ’ the proverb said , and those who did go there might be unlucky and take away more than pleasant memories , judging from the terracotta penises still visible along with models of other parts of the body in the Corinth Museum — dedications by sufferers from venereal disease ( see also AJA , 1941 , 442f . ) . |
| 7 | Think of a conference as an aircraft : it needs air flowing over its wings to give it lift . |
| 8 | Last year his parents gave it to me to restore . |