Example sentences of "it gave [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It gave her great delight , to see her children and Charles 's , here , thus , in the centre . |
| 2 | It gave her great satisfaction that after a couple of months she proved as expert as Ferdinando , learning rapidly how to drive a hard bargain . |
| 3 | It was slow , backbreaking work , but it gave her great satisfaction . |
| 4 | It gave her great qualms that it had been lying in the hall since the morning 's post , as if it had an atmosphere capable of permeating the whole house . |
| 5 | I always wrote the replies and told him the news and reassured him that Mum was watching his widow , which it gave her great pleasure to do . |
| 6 | She was doing all right as a nursing orderly in a geriatric hospital — one of her favourite ‘ legitimate ’ jobs as it gave her easy access to sleeping pills and downers . |
| 7 | She felt slightly ashamed that it gave her such satisfaction . |
| 8 | At the same time she doubted that Silas was the type of man who would stand listening outside a doorway , and although she recalled his firm declaration of having no intention of marrying Doreen it gave her small comfort . |
| 9 | It gave her infinite pleasure simply to utter Joss Barnet 's name . |
| 10 | It gave her added sensitivity to other people 's feelings . |
| 11 | She could n't abide the thought of it , sitting there grinning , it gave her bad dreams she said , so she took it one morning and hid it in the stable loft . |
| 12 | But it gave its inner-city policy a new direction by stressing the role of private enterprise in economic regeneration . |
| 13 | It gave its familiar fanfare roar . |