Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] gave it " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of what Eddie said , it 's possible that Angy gave it to Delia but if Eddie 's right , then it looks very much as if Delia — or someone else — took it . |
| 2 | It found support in the professional and middle classes , and Treitschke gave it intellectual respectability . |
| 3 | It was a nice hat , and Marie gave it to me , so it 's extra special . |
| 4 | Gurder and Angalo gave it a critical look . |
| 5 | The city saw much conflict during El Cid 's campaigns , as the ebb and flow of conquest and recovery gave it first a Christian master and then a Moorish one . |
| 6 | Taking the ingredients of the cloak-and-dagger historical novel current in his time , he gave his imaginary country certain recognisable Central European characteristics but only one or two passing references to Vienna and Dresden gave it anything like a real location . |
| 7 | Bruce Davidson said , and McLeish gave it thought . |
| 8 | The opera , like Gershwin 's Porgy and Bess the following year , used an all-Black cast and the staging and choreography gave it a British connection since it was by Frederick Ashton . |
| 9 | Ashmolean Museum , Oxford , has bought its first Poussin drawing , the ‘ View of the Tiber Valley ’ , attributed to Claude until Blunt gave it to Poussin , ( £156,450 , est. £70–100,000 ; NACF , NHMF , the Hulme Fund , and the Friends of the Ashmolean and the Purchase Grant Fund support ) . |
| 10 | By turns spiralling slowly upwards and sighing in resignation , it was already a much-loved concert piece before its use in the films The Elephant Man and Platoon gave it even greater popularity . |
| 11 | It was not warm , but it was sheltered from the wind outside , and the stillness and randomness of the tools and litter gave it an almost religious significance , made it seem as if it was waiting . |
| 12 | The church 's provinces , dioceses and parishes gave it an extensive infrastructure , its carefully-ranked personnel and tiers of assemblies a hierarchy of control into which the king could tap . |
| 13 | He deserved an answer , and Nicholas gave it . |
| 14 | On the boat , Johnson asked about ‘ the use of the dirk , with which he imagined the Highlanders cut their meat ’ , and was told they also had knives and forks , that the men tended to hand the knives and forks to the women after they had cut their own meat which they then ate from their hands , and that one old Macdonald retainer always ate fish with his fingers , claiming that ‘ a knife and fork gave it a bad taste ’ . |
| 15 | Dukakis 's television performance and interviews gave it all away , as did those of his supporters . |
| 16 | Other visitors might have seen the business-card as merely a piece of litter — it could have stayed there , its drawing-pins slowly rusting , for years ; but Flaubert gave it function . |
| 17 | Some workers deliberately took less well-paid work because employers gave it out in the particular quantity they desired . |
| 18 | While he deliberated , Murray continued : ‘ I had the letter because Richard gave it me to post , sir . |
| 19 | Erm Ian left that with me and I was to speak to Bob before Bob gave it to because it was n't very good . |
| 20 | The reason , as Nebamun gave it , fell too pat . |