Example sentences of "gave [art] [noun] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gave the door a strong push . |
| 2 | Enoch Gebler embraced his grandson , then took the boy inside , closing the door against Bobby , who gave the door a good kick and grinning , walked away . |
| 3 | Immediately , her expression and pace of approach changed and instead of the lambasting , or worse , she had seemed about to deliver , she gave the child a tolerant smile and began to pick up the scattered cans . |
| 4 | Bodie stayed solemn , but Doyle gave the child a quick smile . |
| 5 | Nylon carpet is basically oil based , which gave the Americans a significant advantage until 1980 because of the cheapness of their oil . |
| 6 | The two men ran off but , though they gave the troopers a good chase , were soon captured . |
| 7 | Ford 's immediate responses were the Mustang and the Thunderbird — the cars that gave the company a distinct personality and reestablished it as an industry leader . |
| 8 | KPMG Peat Marwick gave the company a clean audit report . |
| 9 | He gave the women a thirty-second start and picked them up on the northbound carriageway with ease . |
| 10 | Felix gave the machine a playful tap . |
| 11 | Stephen Lazarević , Lazar 's successor , actually fought for Bayezid 's Turkish army at the battle of Ankara in 1402 when Timur defeated the Turks and so gave the Byzantines a half-century respite before the conquest of Constantinople by Sultan Mehmed II in 1453 . |
| 12 | Measures like this gave the colonies a secure market and also provided larger supplies of tropical goods than could be consumed in England , so that English merchants could develop their re-export trade with the rest of the world . |
| 13 | The barman gave the watch a cursory glance . |
| 14 | Which only gave the Duchess a new detail to worry over : how would the orchestra leader know when to stop his men playing so that the pipers could begin ? |
| 15 | He gave the banner a second glance , fixing its curves and lines in his mind , storing the sight so that he could draw it some time . |
| 16 | The north wind gave the day a restless feeling , and the journey stretched before us like an early map whose faint features were pleasingly unreliable . |
| 17 | Actress Robin Givens gave the man a bloody nose after he mistook her for a hooker while she was filming in Chicago . |
| 18 | on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its . |
| 19 | Hilary asked as she gave the boy a tentative smile . |
| 20 | Edouard turned his head ; he gave the boy a cold stare . |
| 21 | Hofmeyr gave the elephant a small shot of tranquillizer . |
| 22 | This gave the baronage a strong sense of cohesion ; but the large families which many of them had , and the opportunities for enrichment and impoverishment which growing population and growing wealth provided , meant that any great man had a large number of poor relations , and that the rungs on the ladder between the poor knights and the great princes were thronged with men moving up and down , sometimes at breakneck speed . |
| 23 | Of course , even though no foul was committed the ref. for peace sake gave the scum a free kick . |
| 24 | This gave the Germans a temporary advantage , but later on was the main cause which brought the US into the war and thus caused German defeat . ’ |
| 25 | I think we outnumbered their support here , it was it gave the players a great lift , it was tremendous erm all credit to them erm we will drag even more along to the next game . |
| 26 | Richini gave the façade a concave curve so that carriages could more easily approach the doorway . |
| 27 | However , Ahmed Dogan , leader of the ethnic Turks ' Movement for Rights and Freedoms ( MRF — whose support gave the UDF a working majority in parliament ) said that Zhelev 's statement was " objective " . |
| 28 | He gave the Bookman a big hug and hoped they would be friends for a long , long time . |
| 29 | I myself , not having much knowledge of computer electronics called for the services of a professional Computer Engineer , after explaining the symptoms he gave the PC a thorough check , he then informed me no fault could be found but suggested that as the problem was intermittent and the PC was somewhat old , it could be susceptible to noise not conducted but radiated at some external source , Radio Frequency Interference ( R.F.I. ) . |
| 30 | Three more tries to Andy Mullins , Simon Dear and Glenister gave the Quins a 24–3 half-time lead . |