Example sentences of "[vb past] it give [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The guidelines issued to the National Heritage Memorial Fund allowed it to give grants , not only for the purchase of outstanding buildings , land and works of artistic and historic interest , but also to provide endowments for major houses threatened with sale . |
| 2 | She heard it give way and then plunge into the water . |
| 3 | Not only did it give prestige and add a sense of urgency to an undertaking , it also exerted the pressure of old feudal practice upon vassals to join their lord in person . |
| 4 | Nor , critics pointed out , did it give blacks automatic access to home ownership in previously white areas . |
| 5 | As inspirational pronouncement rather than an operational blueprint , not only did it give expression to and authority for the idea that a fairer , juster society should be created , as the inalienable rights of man required ; but more , it asserted that thanks to machinery powered by steam it could be . |
| 6 | They said it gave people ideas , Dorcas gathered , which were not a good thing unless they were the right kind of ideas . |