Example sentences of "and [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 | ‘ It took a lot of thinking about — living in your own home and happy there for fifty years and suddenly to give it away . |
| 3 | But friends assured me there was more to this grand range of mountains than my experience had suggested , and so to give it a chance I went back to climb Cairn Gorm properly , giving the bridies as wide a body swerve as possible . |
| 4 | Hitherto , the Greeks had instinctively interpreted their experience through their myths and so given it " the stamp of the eternal " . |
| 5 | This state of mind will transmit itself into the drawing and so give it life . |
| 6 | This state of mind will transmit itself into the drawing and so give it life . |
| 7 | 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. |
| 8 | It may be full of microbes and rotting vegetation , but these are natural and organic and only give it an attractive flavour . |
| 9 | And just to give it a centre . |
| 10 | at first you could just wrought iron it round and , and just give it that |
| 11 | ( Oh , by the way , I always remembered that line and later gave it to Will Shakespeare . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | My skin was brown and my hair streaked with nature 's own blond from the salt and sun : my very bones seemed to have absorbed the heat and now gave it back in the form of a glowing sense of confidence and well-being . |
| 14 | She first nourishes the child in her womb and then gives it her milk … |
| 15 | Thomson Jochim and Gemmell accepts the gift and then gives it back to Oldfield . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ You think she should be pregnant for nine months and go through all the agonies of giving birth , and then give it away ? ’ |
| 18 | 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 … |
| 19 | These are fictions about experimenting with an impecunious and occasionally feckless life of adventure , and then giving it up . |
| 20 | Gold made up less than a quarter of the Company 's exports from West Africa ; its charter recognized recent changes in trading patterns by laying down that the Company was to provide slaves for the English colonies in the Caribbean , and then giving it a monopoly of the trade . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |