Example sentences of "[conj] giving it [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I think that 's what Priest , I mean I do n't know , Priest probably has a whole history of how he got is Esquire style , but Vincent went over there and had something to do with it , and I really think that taking the old style stuff and giving it a new spin helped , and the difference between what we 're doing and what the California crowd was doing — and this was also the time of punk rock — was that we were using traditional typefaces and they were
2 Have you ever watched seasoned knitted diving into cartons of yarn , coming up with a cone and giving it a good sniff ?
3 After gingerly retrieving his whistle from the offending item and giving it a quick clean-up , McNally was immediately called on to blow it when he awarded a drop goal after a free-kick .
4 So I settled for dusting off his shoulder and giving it a quick squeeze .
5 The ‘ keys ’ or trigger features required to ‘ unlock ’ these two types of cell are rather simple — it is just a matter of applying a small stimulus in the right place , and giving it the correct sign , an increase for one and a decrease for the other .
6 These amplify the sound as well as giving it a particular quality .
7 The Senate ( upper house ) rejected the key elements of the bill when giving it a first reading on March 22 , 1991 , and conciliation between the two houses failed to resolve the issue four days later .
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