Example sentences of "i gave it [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Not that I gave it serious thought .
2 He must have liked the sound it made because he gave it another couple for luck ; my courage rising , too , I gave it two more .
3 The light was fading on the walls of the Imperial city ; I gave it one last look and came , reluctantly , to sit at the table .
4 I gave it one of its earliest tests on my first trip to Coombe Abbey at Coventry , where I had sixty pounds of bream ( weighed ) and only stopped catching when I ran out of groundbait .
5 I gave it all I had and , grunting loudly enough to raise the dead , I achieved 3 metres 25cm .
6 I said an er I said do you think that I was n't a career woman , I said I gave it all up for yo er to have to look after my young babies and then when the babies were no longer young , when I got through that phase of my life I went back and combined looking after a home very adequately , thank you !
7 I gave it some water cos I
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