Example sentences of "[conj] it gave him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another experience was when he was praying before the crucifix in San Damiano and it seemed to him that it gave him the message , " Build my church " , which he immediately interpreted quite literally as , " Save this church from crumbling into ruins " . |
| 2 | His main diversion was music , which ‘ did relieve his drooping spirits , compose his distracted thoughts and raised his weary soul so far above the earth , that it gave him an earnest of the joys of heaven ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | His appearance in the Toyota World Match Play at Wentworth in October was his 17th in succession and it gave him the chance of winning the title for a record sixth time . |
| 7 | And it gave him the halfway lead of 132 , 12 under par . |
| 8 | It was Tip 's first smell of Open success , and it gave him an appetite for the Open Championship . |
| 9 | It hardly made him a frequent visitor , but it gave him a few numbers to ring . |
| 10 | He drank heavily , but it gave him no elation , merely intensified his mood . |
| 11 | But it gave him no comfort . |
| 12 | The dialogue tonight might be controlled and rational — but it gave him no ease . |
| 13 | But it gave him an excuse to retire for a while , to re-assess things . |
| 14 | He really loved the hairdressing profession as it gave him a captive audience to bounce his latest jokes off . |
| 15 | For example , he took comfort from the deflationary economic measures of July 1966 , which he opposed , as it gave him the chance ‘ to reassert collective Cabinet authority because I see how disastrous it is to allow Cabinet government to decline into mere Prime Ministerial government … if I achieved anything it was by asserting the right of Cabinet to take part in the making of economic strategy so that Harold conceded we must be given that right ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |