Example sentences of "it give [pers pn] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so I said but I 'm not disappointed but she said just listen to what I 've got to say , she said , erm , because anybody else that 's failed we 've just said I 'm sorry we ca n't have you , but she said with you , we all feel that you 've got so much to offer she said I 'm gon na offer you a relief post which means that you can go into other people 's ho er other homes , all around , all different hospitals if somebody 's short , they can call on you and I said could it be a full time job , will it give me enough money to say that I 'm working ? |
| 2 | Does it give you enough leg room ? |
| 3 | ‘ Does it give you some idea of the kind of man he was ? ’ |
| 4 | The fact that we are doctors , priests , social workers will not necessarily be of any advantage to us , nor does it give us any right to expect intimate revelations . |
| 5 | So it give us another shilling each . |
| 6 | Mind you , it was partly her fault ; they could afford to live without her factory work , but it gave her some company and a feeling of contributing to society . |
| 7 | Anna would n't speak of it at all for some time ; later we heard about Simon 's will — he left her various things , his art library for instance ( it 's a wonderful one ) — and it gave her some kind of peace . |
| 8 | It was only a momentary lapse on his part , but it gave her enough time to whirl round on him , her eyes widening as she spotted a revolver in his hand . |
| 9 | But it gave her another flare of confidence , this elusive and somehow warming reminder of her childhood . |
| 10 | It gave him that Vogue -ish look that belonged to his life as an international racing star . |
| 11 | but with her being ill it , she says it gave him another sense of duty that |
| 12 | It gave him more time to devote to music and allowed him to pour his suffocating feelings of negativity into songs . |
| 13 | No doubt it gave him more time to enjoy his new pride and joy , a Harley Davidson , classic Hells Angels style motorcycle . |
| 14 | Hank came in and did a lot of recordings , which I was glad of because it gave me some relief . |
| 15 | It gave me some insight into the upgraded version , but no details . |
| 16 | ‘ It gave me some advice about dealing with problems which might arise . ’ |
| 17 | It gave me enough impetus to finish the exit , though I dare say he , like me , felt only marginally warmer for being on land . |
| 18 | Through that , Red Rhino came up with a matching deal which was not very high in terms of money or anything but it gave them some status , certainly with promotion . |
| 19 | And it gave it some condition , you know , when I |
| 20 | It gave us such household names as Glasgow , Linlithgow , Lanark , Bathgate , Dalkeith , Stirling , Perth , Aberdeen , Arbroath , the Tay , the Clyde , the Forth etc , as well as our capital 's Edin , and the famous burn 's Bannock . |
| 21 | It gives me little pleasure to agree with him , but I do so . |
| 22 | It gives me some satisfaction to learn that 12 years later British Airways , privatised , efficient , and highly profitable , has become the biggest international airline in the world , while Lufthansa , struggling with high costs , has seen its reputation slip . |
| 23 | It gives me some satisfaction that those who laughed at me and poked fun at me now have evidence in front of their very eyes . |
| 24 | The girls are required to plan their own day , and when they are used to this system , most prefer it to the structure of school and it gives them some control over their daily lives . |
| 25 | The presence of maids obviates any need for husbands to undertake traditionally female tasks and so , while a woman following her career does challenge a husband 's machismo in the sense that it gives her some independence ( both economically and socially ) , it does not do so in the sense of changing his role in the home . |
| 26 | Well I suppose it gives her er er , it gives her some meaning . |
| 27 | Des starts to offer coffee , but it gives her another opening : ‘ No , I 'll go make my own , thank you . |
| 28 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 29 | He gets a lot of comfort from the breastfeed , and as he has never had a bottle , and does n't drink milk from a cup , I feel it gives him some nourishment , too . |
| 30 | You do n't have to , it does n't have to be mined , we do n't have to import it from any Arabs , it 's ours , we own it and it gives us that amount of energy but only if we develop the fast er reactors . |