Example sentences of "it give i [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe that day implanted in me a life-long craving for barbaric splendour , for savagery and colour and the throb of drums , and that it gave me a lasting veneration for long-established custom and ritual , from which would derive later a deep-seated resentment of Western innovations in other lands , and a distaste for the drab uniformity of the modern world . |
| 2 | It gave me a great deal of pleasure to think how much more pained he was going to be in a few moments . |
| 3 | It gave me a real shock to see her . |
| 4 | It was , I think , my first real understanding of what being spoiled meant , in more than one way , and it gave me a lifelong horror of over-dressing which , having just glanced through the photo-albums in search of an illustrative self-portrait , I seem to have conquered only too well . |
| 5 | It gave me a temporary Equity card — mind you they took it away again as soon as I had done the four weeks work . |
| 6 | ‘ When I beat Nick for the Barcelona Open it gave me a three-year exemption on the tour but it turned out to be a £90,000 exemption — that 's what it cost me to keep playing until I lost it in 1991 . ’ |
| 7 | It gave me a spooky feeling , actually . |
| 8 | ‘ It gave me a funny feeling ’ he says |
| 9 | ‘ It was a strange situation , but it gave me a unique opportunity to work alongside the workforce under difficult conditions . |
| 10 | I simply watched an American T V news item , but it gave me a frightening vision of what the future could hold in store for us , unless we fight the Tory policies with all our might we can muster . |
| 11 | It was dead right but it gave me a tough act to follow and only Joyce 's famous ‘ George , do n't do that ’ would fit the bill . |
| 12 | I ducked so fast I was n't sure whether he 'd seen me or not , but it gave me a prickly feeling just to imagine it , so I scuttled for the door and legged it up the spiral stairway three steps at a time , just in case . |
| 13 | ( Oh , yes , I was a handsome rogue , tall with jet-black hair , olive-skinned but with a cast in one eye , I always thought it gave me a devil-may-care look . ) |
| 14 | It gave me a few minutes to stop and think about what the hell I was doing . |
| 15 | It gave me a huge appetite and for all the wrong things , ’ she says . |
| 16 | ‘ It was an amazing first set and winning it gave me a big boost and seemed to have the opposite effect on David , ’ said Corsie later . |
| 17 | Quite unwittingly you played right into my hands that night , Aurora — I knew you had n't been taking drugs , but it gave me the perfect excuse for sticking around . |
| 18 | Maybe that does n't sound like anything , but I 'll tell you it gave me the strangest feeling I ever had . |
| 19 | It gave me an unwelcome feeling and a ‘ you 're not wanted here , get out ’ complex , from which I became utterly pessimistic and a trifle hostile . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've never been quite sure what the attraction is except that the job is n't boring and it gives me a private life . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You know , Frome , it gives me a great deal of pleasure to think of you as head boy here next year . |
| 22 | I 've told you that it gives me a terrific edge in any sale where Kemp 's a bidder . |
| 23 | It gives me a tremendous advantage in that I can moor the punt about 15yds back from the top of the shelf , in the shallower water , out of sight of the bream . |
| 24 | I must say it gives me a certain amount of pleasure too . ’ |
| 25 | It gives me a good feeling . ’ |
| 26 | It gives me a good bright clean sound at loud volumes and a good overdrive sound at most volumes . |
| 27 | So er I do n't mind at all being interrupted if anyone has questions as we go along please shout them out it gives me a little breather with me voice and gives a chance to deal with things in the right place if need be . |
| 28 | Seriously , though , it gives me a fresh pang every time I look … |
| 29 | It gives me a bad head . |
| 30 | I can stand in front of the screen , I can look at the simulations , I can stop them whenever I want to stop them and look at them , it gives me ideas about how the buildings might have looked at that time and it gives me a whole range of variations as to as to what can be done in terms of their reconstructions . |