Example sentences of "it gave him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he grew older his favourite view was that of the omnibuses which descended the rue du Bac and crossed the Pont Royal , for it gave him a chance to see the people with whom , for most of the time , he was denied closer contact . |
| 2 | Reckoned it gave him a psychological advantage . ’ |
| 3 | According to his friend Peter Fonda , it gave him a ‘ real deep hurt inside ; there 's no way of resolving it , ever ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It gave him a ghastly feeling of déjà vu . ’ |
| 6 | It was still there , though , and looking at it gave him a shock . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It gave him a shock in his fragile state . |
| 9 | He really loved the hairdressing profession as it gave him a captive audience to bounce his latest jokes off . |
| 10 | He thought it gave him a rakish daring look , especially when he wore it at an angle with his loud checked jacket and green tie . |
| 11 | It suited Duncan ; it gave him a chance to absorb his new surroundings , to get used to Russia . |
| 12 | It gave him a tonsillectomy , an appendectomy and a vasectomy . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It gave him a role in parts of the north where he held no land of his own . |
| 15 | It gave him a majority of 462 to 116 . |
| 16 | In the hard-pressed post-war years , when there was relatively little money around , it gave him a potency and significance that was easily abused . |
| 17 | It gave him a sense of his power . |
| 18 | It hardly made him a frequent visitor , but it gave him a few numbers to ring . |
| 19 | It gave him a taste for a civilised life-style . |
| 20 | It gave him a qualm to realise that a large part of his need to see her again stemmed from her usefulness to him as a go between . |
| 21 | It gave him a rakish , devil-may-care look completely at variance with his austere manner of recent days . |
| 22 | It gave him a role in parts of the north where he held no land of his own . |
| 23 | But , as he was to say , it gave him a chance to hear about a convenient ‘ bum doctor ’ in Harley Street . |
| 24 | ‘ It gave him a purpose in life after she died . ’ |
| 25 | Once more it gave him a feeling of identity , but this time it was n't reassuring . |
| 26 | He drank heavily , but it gave him no elation , merely intensified his mood . |
| 27 | But it gave him no comfort . |
| 28 | It gave him no pleasure . |
| 29 | The dialogue tonight might be controlled and rational — but it gave him no ease . |
| 30 | That gave Webb an easy catch and it gave him the time to see that Bath would have a man over if he ran the ball to the left . |