Example sentences of "[vb past] given it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The war , far from finishing off the machine of modernity , had given it new life . |
| 2 | Pugin 's advocacy of the Gothic as a Christian , not pagan , architecture , had given it moral overtones . |
| 3 | ‘ Love , ’ she said , promptly , for she had given it some thought . |
| 4 | One obvious problem about the regent 's earlier policy of marrying her daughter to the dauphin is why leading Scottish Protestants like lord James Stewart and John Erskine of Dun had not only accepted this symbolic and political consolidation of the alliance with Catholic France , but had given it positive support , being among those who negotiated it . |
| 5 | Moltke , by reinforcing his left wing at the expense of his right , had given it sufficient strength to resist attack but insufficient to mount a crushing counter-attack . |