Example sentences of "gave it a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … |
| 2 | Kate Melville and Sue d'Argy Smith , whose daughters left the Church , as so many do , just before they became nubile , each took a hand and gave it a sharp pull , and over their heads came the long arms of Gordon the Bachelor , whose fingers stroked my hair , as countless other key personnel in the body of Christendom , South Wimbledon , stroked , shoved , pulled and all but carried me towards the stage on which I was supposed to pour out the secrets of my heart . |
| 3 | He groped his way back towards her , and Cassie laughed again as she watched his stumbling progress around the bottom of the bed he gave it a wide berth , so perhaps the nineteen forties bed , which must occupy the same position as her own , was longer or wider than hers . |
| 4 | I gave it a wide berth and went to sit on the rug , but of course it had gone so I sat on one of the chairs instead , had a good long wash and settled down for a nap . |
| 5 | I already had permission to search all the surrounding fields , so I waited until the field was harvested before I gave it a thorough going over with my detector . |
| 6 | Yet the size of the rural community gave it a potent voice in political affairs . |
| 7 | They gave it a thousand letters they gave it money |
| 8 | They were both there : the three-inch diagonal scar near the wrist and the permanent multiple fracture of the third finger , which gave it a twisted , arthritic appearance . |
| 9 | What is clear is that the military origins of nuclear power in this country gave it a powerful boost as an infant technology , and that the umbilical cord has not been severed . |
| 10 | At either end of the village two long avenues of trees gave it a friendly air . |
| 11 | The empiricism and opportunism of British foreign policy , its reluctance to embark on long-range plans , its dislike of large commitments and its responsiveness to public opinion all gave it a deceptive appearance of unprincipledness . |
| 12 | When a car passed by the men gave it a cursory glance . |
| 13 | Paul caught the ring , gave it a cursory glance and thrust it into his pocket , at the same time pulling out a small parcel . |
| 14 | Gurder and Angalo gave it a critical look . |
| 15 | Then she held out her hand to Eileen and gave it a strong clasp that made her wince . |
| 16 | The Sudanese government , after weeks of insisting that reports of imminent famine were " baseless " , had asked potential donor countries on Oct. 25 for 75,000 tonnes of grain as a standby until an evaluation of the harvest gave it a clearer idea of the extent of the food shortage . |
| 17 | This challenge to the state-centric outlook shared by Idealism and Realism ( and Behaviouralism ) was not a novel one , but the world of the 1970s gave it a new strength . |
| 18 | Irishmen had long used it to denote ‘ complete ’ or ‘ permanent ’ , and Irish labourers brought it to Lancashire ; Turner did not invent the term , but merely gave it a new and more specialist application . |
| 19 | She carefully left enough of her father 's original hair tonic in the bottle so that when she gave it a good shake the whole thing still looked reasonably purple . |
| 20 | The mountain goat 's ancestry , as a member of the Bovid family , gave it a good start : it gave the animal the means of subsisting on the poor mountain vegetation , and it provided it with feet that could be adapted to moving around in the precipitous terrain . |
| 21 | Rose whipped the sleeves of the shirt behind its back , folded them like double-jointed elbows , bent the shirt in two , and gave it a final press on top . |
| 22 | Death — she had so longed for it that she hardly gave it a second thought . |
| 23 | She walked out of the front door and gave it a satisfying slam behind her . |
| 24 | She unpacked a self-locating mine , punched in her identifier and gave it a simple verbal instruction . |
| 25 | One of them , Stuart Surridge , did not live to see the production , which is dedicated to him ; but he gave it a memorable quote when he reflected on his Surrey players of the 1950s , with whom he won five consecutive County Championships : they were a great side , he recalled : ‘ All they wanted was a kick up the arse ! ’ |
| 26 | In the last-named work he opened up lines of interpretation which , even if somewhat modified since , set firm foundations on which other scholars might build : the exuberant vigour and almost Niagara-like outpouring of scholarship gave it a memorable quality . |
| 27 | That gave it a high spot on her list of things to put out of commission . |
| 28 | The roomy silos of the hull flanks gave it a bulbous appearance that defied approval by any aesthetic but the purely functional . |
| 29 | ‘ When the red light changed , I gave it a big welly-full . |
| 30 | You never gave it a slightest thought . |