Example sentences of "it give [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Jinny served the tea Mrs Bennet brought a tall clothes maiden from the wash house and draped a sheet over it to give Anne and her mother some privacy . |
| 2 | Insofar as this affected the ECSC negotiations , it gave West Germany a far stronger hand and enabled its negotiators to resist some of the French demands , especially those which were aimed at a deconcentration and decartelisation of West Germany 's heavy industries , and to pursue more urgently its own point of view on the future of the Saar . |
| 3 | The longer they stayed , the more chance it gave Bishop Jon 's army to arrive . |
| 4 | The job involved visiting mining camps , quarries and oilfields all over the world selling explosives and it gave Haslam his first taste of the excitement of travel , something that has remained with him all his life . |
| 5 | It gave Nora the only hope she had . |
| 6 | Despite the pleasure it gave Minton to walk into a friend 's house and find his own wallpaper , purchased without his friend knowing he had designed it , he did not take his interest in this area much further . |
| 7 | It gave Hugh Lorimer some satisfaction to inform Philip that his son had inherited the estate in Meath and a personal fortune of a quarter of a million pounds . |
| 8 | It gave Ruth time to think and worry . |
| 9 | It gave Kirov the ideal opportunity to return to the Kharkov air-base and , of course , to see Vologsky . |
| 10 | It gave Anna real pain to post magazines through one new front door hinged and studded so as to resemble part of the set for a pantomime of Robin Hood , and then another , moulded and classically pedimented , between half-pilasters made of fibreglass . |
| 11 | If it gave Eva pause for thought it certainly did n't show in any relaxation of the pace she set herself . |
| 12 | It gave Scarlet the impression that she had grown very old and from now on might just as well go round in her shroud . |
| 13 | It gave Patrick the feeling that their every move had been planned for them by Comrade Ceauŝescu himself . |
| 14 | It gave Baldwin a position of exceptional strength . |
| 15 | It gave Caterina an integument of steel , that praise and love of men which Rosalba could never command ; the blandishments and consolations of her mother would never clothe her in such silvery bright armour as the admiration of men gave Caterina . |
| 16 | It was one of the things that had disappeared from Renascia towards the end and it gave Fenella an odd , rather out-of-balance feeling to see dawn light again . |
| 17 | There it gave Compaq 's resignation and the pending Silicon Graphics acquisition of MIPS , as its reasons for withdrawing . |
| 18 | It gave DeVore plenty to consider . |
| 19 | Still , it gave Mary five minutes of fame overtime which might not have been allocated otherwise . |
| 20 | As for the mild , ramshackle Austro-Hungarian empire , it gave Bosnia peace and reasonably humane government for a few decades , until Austria-Hungary itself was broken up in 1918 — to the regret , quite soon , of many of its erstwhile subjects . |
| 21 | It gave Hazel an impression of good feeding , of health and of a certain indolence , as though the other came from some rich , prosperous country where he himself had never been . |
| 22 | It gave Oscar a perverse joy to sow these doubts . |
| 23 | Her owner , an anonymous Suffolk man , left the cash in his will to the National Society for Epilepsy on condition it gave Sooty a home . |
| 24 | More important , it gave Mexico the breathing space it needed to tempt back flight capital and boost GDP growth . |
| 25 | In the middle of his sales talk about the land and the area , it gave Kevin satisfaction to say , ‘ I was born here , my brother farms up at Bryanstown . ’ |
| 26 | It gave Brian McMaster , the company 's managing director , the worst night he has ever had . |
| 27 | It gave Molly great pleasure to bake for Paul and his young friends , and these are a few of their favourites . |
| 28 | The deliberate cruelty of it gave Theda the strength she needed . |
| 29 | It gave Raymond Cusick a far greater guarantee of artistic control over the series . |
| 30 | It gave Eddius [ q.v . ] , |