Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] give it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was partly with the new saw table and also he wanted to try and get more er sellable saleable product out of the slate , cos previously we had been throwing away quite a bit or giving it to and I think it really started as a family argument between him and his brother . |
| 2 | What is questionable is whether Gandhi hypostasizes Religion or gives it a referential connotation in the same way as Tillich does by his use of the term Ultimate Concern . |
| 3 | " Besides all this Tristan learned to ride nimbly with shield and lance , to spur his mount skilfully on either flank , put it to the gallop with dash , wheel and give it free rein and urge it on with his knees , in strict accordance with the chivalric art . |
| 4 | I was wearing the King 's ring , but I took off my Rassendyll family ring and gave it to her . |
| 5 | So he decided to add another fifteen knots to the approach speed and give it a go . |
| 6 | It 's all right , ’ Sarah said , picking up the purse and giving it to her . |
| 7 | They take hold of the club and give it a few waggles . |
| 8 | Conversing with the mind and giving it |
| 9 | She had been a regular person once , but that had been before the voices started up in her head , before the dead woman got out of her rocking chair , before the preacherman reached into her mind and gave it a sharp twist … |
| 10 | Gradually he removed his concentration and gave it to me . |
| 11 | The prominent white clasts are fragments of anorthosites — calcium and aluminium-rich rocks that make up the bulk of the lunar highlands crust and give it the light colour that is visible from Earth . |
| 12 | Out by the pool she found a girl who greeted her warmly and , delving into the recesses of her knapsack , brought out a box of nougat and gave it to her . |
| 13 | In multi-layered music , one or more layer can be an ostinato ( a repeated phrase which creates the background atmosphere of a piece and gives it unity and cohesion ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I might as well just save my pound and give it to whoever fucking wins that thing cos I 've never won it . |
| 16 | They echo the theme set in last year 's CBI Business Agenda for the 1990s with the emphasis on controlling inflation , public spending , strengthening the Department of Trade & Industry and giving it responsibility for the National Economic Development Council and opposing a national minimum wage . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He conceived the idea of artificial daylight and gave it practical reality by filtering the light of an Argand oil lamp through blue glass . |
| 19 | As they walked to the hotel car park across the road , two young art student types , thin girls with long black hair and western eyes , stopped and asked him if he could help them work their camera , they were out on an assignment and it would n't go at all , and Rory fiddled something on the side and gave it back and said : ‘ That should be it now , the poor ould thing should be in a museum ’ , and as they went away looked back at him , and back again . |
| 20 | He bought the rock and gave it to me . |
| 21 | The elderly woman separated a skein of red silk from the bundle in her lap and gave it to her . |
| 22 | Now how would he feel if he contracted the virus from a freak accident at work and gave it to his wife and child just because we had failed to test him ? ’ |
| 23 | It is avarice that enhances a jewel and gives it an artificial beauty , but the stones of the sea are valueless so their beauty is real . |
| 24 | All I considered necessary was to simplify the design of the icon and give it a different colour scheme . |
| 25 | The Iraqis ' suspicions of his links with Iran , Israel and America ( he was on the CIA 's payroll ) were reinforced when , that year , he said : ‘ If support were strong enough we could control the Kirkuk oilfield and give it to an American company to operate ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The PROFITBOSS takes the paper out of management and gives it to the administrators . |
| 28 | The tragic ending of Hi 's chivalrous mission is proper to the emotional tone of the book : his feelings , his anxiety and longing , his anger and impatience , his hope and fear , run along with the concrete , forceful adventure plot and give it purpose . |
| 29 | The methods of testing varies from kit to kit , but most consist of taking a sample of water and adding a few drops of the special reagent or tablet and giving it a shake . |
| 30 | He finished typing , took the paper from the machine and gave it to her . |