Example sentences of "gave it [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | She removed his wet topcoat , and gave it a shake before hanging it on the hall-stand . |
2 | He picked up the envelope and gave it a bit of a shake . |
3 | The thought may come to mind of stipulating , say , that a cause or condition-set made an effect more probable than not-that is , gave it a probability of 0.5 + . |
4 | And you did that with them and then laid it down , you see , and then you gathered your sheaf and put it on that and turned it round and gave it a twist like that and then And that was how it was done . |
5 | I gave it a couple of minutes , then made for the broch and the steps up to the landing where the girls had gone yesterday . |
6 | For instance , I recall one evening he came to me and took out a matchbox and he gave it a couple of shakes ; I thought there were matches inside , hut he opened the box and inside were some very evil-looking pills , about the size of , or a little larger , than a Beecham 's pill . |
7 | and gave it a couple of coats this morning |
8 | The militant , comprising four fields ( Kent , Scotland , South Wales and Yorkshire ) which consistently gave the strongest support to the strike call , although none gave it a majority at every ballot . |
9 | A Dutchman in Volkswagen ( I have always had a soft spot for the Dutch ) gave it a push in the rear from time to time , but I shrank from asking him to push it and us to one of the Channel ports . |
10 | This part of the camp was in itself no more attractive than the part in which we lived , but the very fact that we did not live there , that we did not know every inch of its dusty ground , that normally we only saw it from the distance , gave it a charm of its own . |
11 | He first embarked on an Open University degree in the technology faculty some ten years ago , but gave it a rest for a few years before starting in earnest in 1986 , in his second year at Wedgwood . |
12 | The house it penned was old and brown with a porch that gave it a sort of potbelly . |
13 | King Edward 1 , that great town-planner , gave it a charter in 1286 , conferring upon it all the liberties and privileges of the City of London . |
14 | It was black , as if once it had been varnished ; and this gave it a sheen of its own . |
15 | Jane gave it a tin of meat which she had found plus — with great relief — the tin opener . |
16 | Several Graben-like extensions in the north-west direction gave it a width of about 500 km ( Ziegler 1979 ) . |
17 | And when it came out I gave it a puff in my little rag , and made sure the others did the same . |
18 | The following morning , he wheeled out his Granpa 's old barrow from the back yard , removed the cobwebs , gave it a lick of paint and put Kitty on to house-to-house calls taking orders , while he remained on his pitch in Whitechapel . |
19 | On land the Company was not really strong enough for such antics , but its naval superiority gave it a place in the third or fourth rank of powers in India , beneath the Emperor at the top and great rulers like the Nawab of Bengal in the second rank . |
20 | These above-average profits depended to some extent on the Company 's political influence in England ; in India it was not powerful enough to control the market , but its charter gave it a monopoly in England which let it push prices up further than would have been practicable if non-members of the Company ( denounced as ‘ interlopers ’ ) had been able to import cotton goods into England freely . |
21 | They grumble that the company 's membership of the British Franchise Association gave it a ring of confidence in which investors put their faith . |
22 | This gave it an influence among the Middle classes which it had never previously enjoyed , while allowing it to maintain the tenuous but important industrial base which it had been creating in the 1920s . |
23 | Being completely enclosed by a wall , ten foot high in places , gave it an air of complete timelessness . |
24 | When she first arrived in Bristol Moggach lived at Badock Hall , then the only mixed hall of residence , which also gave it an aura of excitement . |
25 | It was in a thick blue binding and its antique look — the paper was ruled in the way Henry remembered books of his childhood being ruled — gave it the air of a family bible . |
26 | He gave it the significance of a personal belief and turning lazily in his chair to inform Charles with more than a trace of arrogance , ‘ Old Guards ’ proverb . ’ |
27 | She gave it the liquorice of her mouth it began to thrive |
28 | The voluntary hospital , the Infirmary , was specifically designed to care for the sick , and its relative freedom from the constraints associated with spending public money gave it the advantage over the sick wards at the workhouse . |
29 | She gave it the strings of her voice which it swallowed |
30 | Indeed , the DLP 's control of two-thirds of the seats in the National Assembly gave it the option of amending the Constitution of the Sixth Republic from a presidential to a Cabinet-based system . |