Example sentences of "it gave [pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it gave her no carnal pleasure , and she wondered how it could ever be associated with erotic games . |
| 2 | Lucy had to stand on tiptoe to use it , but when she did it gave her a partial view of the clientele at their tables . |
| 3 | It gave her a marvellous feeling of having escaped the cold clutches of the north and all her unhappiness there . |
| 4 | In fact , it gave her a perfect excuse to try , yet again , to get this wayward heart of hers under control . |
| 5 | It gave her a strange feeling of things being right there inside her and yet projected at the same time at a distance away from her . |
| 6 | and it gave her a great thrill . |
| 7 | She had a little smile on her face because she had won that round easily and it gave her a great deal of satisfaction . |
| 8 | But it gave her a clear view into the houses backing on to the tracks , the private mess usually tidied out of sight , the outside lavatories with unhinged doors , the laundry racks flimsy as the skeleton of a bird 's wing , with trousers and underwear like broken feathers hanging ; a burst , sodden mattress . |
| 9 | Blood was dripping from her right hand , The sight of it gave her a funny cold feeling inside , and the thought flashed through her mind : ‘ Shall I be able to paint again ? ’ |
| 10 | Her first sight of it gave her a severe shock . |
| 11 | It gave her a comfortable glow to think of the church and the life that went on around it , dear and familiar and with the same basic pattern everywhere . |
| 12 | She had wanted to know how much it mattered to him because he would n't let on , and it gave her a valuable lever . |
| 13 | It gave her a special place in her mother 's eyes . |
| 14 | It gave her the uncomfortable feeling of being turned inside out for better examination . |
| 15 | It was serious , set in purpose , and the sight of it gave her an agreeable feeling of submission to higher powers . |
| 16 | It gave him a ghastly feeling of déjà vu . ’ |
| 17 | It gave him a good feeling , it was satisfying , just to think as he walked up the stairs , those floors are mine , this carved wood , these moulded ceilings . |
| 18 | But secretly he loved the idea , and it gave him a great kick to tell his friends and business acquaintances that he was supporting his son on the amateur golf circuit . |
| 19 | He really loved the hairdressing profession as it gave him a captive audience to bounce his latest jokes off . |
| 20 | He was well placed in the cotton industry and it gave him a generous income ; therefore it had to take precedence , but the monotony of arriving at the same place at the same time every day now bored him as much as had the mechanical frenzy of the bobbins when he arrived . |
| 21 | Reckoned it gave him a psychological advantage . ’ |
| 22 | And it gave him the halfway lead of 132 , 12 under par . |
| 23 | Furthermore , it gave him an excellent excuse not to apply his mind to the dismal subjects rearmament , the war in Spain , relations with Hitler , the distressed areas the weight of which had built up during his absence . |
| 24 | I believe that day implanted in me a life-long craving for barbaric splendour , for savagery and colour and the throb of drums , and that it gave me a lasting veneration for long-established custom and ritual , from which would derive later a deep-seated resentment of Western innovations in other lands , and a distaste for the drab uniformity of the modern world . |
| 25 | It gave me a great deal of pleasure to think how much more pained he was going to be in a few moments . |
| 26 | It gave me a real shock to see her . |
| 27 | It was , I think , my first real understanding of what being spoiled meant , in more than one way , and it gave me a lifelong horror of over-dressing which , having just glanced through the photo-albums in search of an illustrative self-portrait , I seem to have conquered only too well . |
| 28 | It gave me a temporary Equity card — mind you they took it away again as soon as I had done the four weeks work . |
| 29 | ‘ When I beat Nick for the Barcelona Open it gave me a three-year exemption on the tour but it turned out to be a £90,000 exemption — that 's what it cost me to keep playing until I lost it in 1991 . ’ |
| 30 | It gave me a spooky feeling , actually . |