Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of banning corporal punishment outright , however , it sought merely to give effect to the Court 's ruling . |
| 2 | As the pleasurable feelings which first fuelled my psychological addiction decreased and began to turn sour , it became easier to give up the habit , something which would not be possible with a physically addictive drug such as heroin . |
| 3 | It went on to give possible aims and objectives for the curriculum , but in the spirit of showing the process of curriculum appraisal that HMI , and the participating LEAs , hope will be attempted by schools . |
| 4 | The passion she had tried to feel for feminism was not enough , it did not give her enough strength to stand up for herself against the demands of these two women who wanted her , needed her and demanded her . |
| 5 | It did not give , but bones broke like sticks somewhere inside him . |
| 6 | Although this meant the withdrawal of the Prussian garrison , it did not give Napoleon III the territory he had sought , and with it the frontier rectification in France 's favour . |
| 7 | That was presumably his stage debut , because although his teacher Marjorie Sturman started the Johannesburg Festival Ballet Society about that time , it did not give its first public performance until the following year , when he was already in Cape Town and unable to get away . |
| 8 | There was no legislation to enforce the use of the safety lamp and many miners did not like it because it did not give out as much light as a candle . |
| 9 | He always understood that the papal decree imposed on himself an absolute personal obligation of obedience , but it did not give him a general responsibility for promoting the principle , or for enforcing the obedience of others . |
| 10 | Media Vision Technology Inc , making multimedia products in Fremont , California got its initial public offering of 1.75m shares , 1m of them new , away at $26.25 a share ; it did not give its plans for the $25m or so net proceeds . |
| 11 | Christopher Pitchford , QC , prosecuting , told the jury : ‘ Whatever their feelings were on the home of an elderly woman being broken into by a gang of drug-crazed teenagers , it did not give anyone the excuse to take the law into their own hands . ’ |
| 12 | It did n't give one much scope . |
| 13 | It did n't give me a positive attitude to psychiatric care or the regime in the National Health Service at all |
| 14 | It did n't give me a very positive image to actually find other people , but I used to go to South London drag pubs , such as the Vauxhall , with schoolfriends when we were in sixth form . |
| 15 | Physically and erm emotionally writing can be very isolating and so , for example a few years ago , I was writing a huge piece on Africa about Africa and I found emotions growing that I actually did n't have names for , erm and it made it impossible to finish the piece I was working on , and then I , I went to see an Afro Asian exhibition of art and I saw portraying some of these paintings the same emotions and it , it did n't give me a name for the emotions but it , it made me feel an awful lot less isolated seeing that erm other people have also , have also felt this . |
| 16 | I 'm surprised it did n't give him a heart attack there and then . |
| 17 | ‘ When you bullied me into this … charade , ’ she spat the words out , ‘ it did n't give you the right to boss me about . |
| 18 | It did n't give you answers . |
| 19 | I really , I really get the impression that there 's , there 's , it 's incredibly sort of nobody really knows what to do , you know , there 's this big turbulent thing just happening and people are very confused about the whole thing because the M May the fourth directive is n't particularly er it did n't give anybody an absolute guideline , guide to erm what to do . |
| 20 | Oh , it did n't give you much chance then to get used to it did it ? |
| 21 | it was done in a very un-run way , because the notice , the notice was , was er it 'd be up about a couple of days and then it 'd come down , you see , so it did n't give anybody a lot of chance , but anyway now it 's been passed you see it goes ahead and that 's all there is to it , he , he has n't start doing it yet but |
| 22 | Mm but this was last year and I just cleared the ball and everybody ran out ran out and I suddenly collapsed in agony on the floor cos my knee just completely gave way and it was really painful and a minute later I stood up and it was fine , it did n't give me any more hassle for the rest of the day . |
| 23 | And this time it did n't give us two X it just gave us one times this one times that one . |
| 24 | However , the following day , when the floorboards were removed to examine the beam , it was found to be so deeply cracked in two places that they ascribed the fact that it had not given way to a ‘ wonder of [ God 's ] providence ’ . |
| 25 | The report deeply angered Price Waterhouse because it had not given evidence to Senator Kerry 's subcommittee . |
| 26 | It had rather given the impression that splits were not the done thing . |
| 27 | The death of his beloved grandfather had brought him misery but , at the same time , it had also given him strength . |
| 28 | It had been repainted since the war , but , as far as she knew , it had never given forth music . |
| 29 | While the government later indicated that it had merely given drafting assistance , it is abundantly clear that its influence on the Bill was much more than one would normally associate with drafting assistance . |