Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] gave it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was what was within the bird the force that gave it such power , such vitality . ’ |
| 2 | I was wearing the King 's ring , but I took off my Rassendyll family ring and gave it to her . |
| 3 | She had been a regular person once , but that had been before the voices started up in her head , before the dead woman got out of her rocking chair , before the preacherman reached into her mind and gave it a sharp twist … |
| 4 | Gradually he removed his concentration and gave it to me . |
| 5 | Out by the pool she found a girl who greeted her warmly and , delving into the recesses of her knapsack , brought out a box of nougat and gave it to her . |
| 6 | He conceived the idea of artificial daylight and gave it practical reality by filtering the light of an Argand oil lamp through blue glass . |
| 7 | As they walked to the hotel car park across the road , two young art student types , thin girls with long black hair and western eyes , stopped and asked him if he could help them work their camera , they were out on an assignment and it would n't go at all , and Rory fiddled something on the side and gave it back and said : ‘ That should be it now , the poor ould thing should be in a museum ’ , and as they went away looked back at him , and back again . |
| 8 | He bought the rock and gave it to me . |
| 9 | The elderly woman separated a skein of red silk from the bundle in her lap and gave it to her . |
| 10 | Now how would he feel if he contracted the virus from a freak accident at work and gave it to his wife and child just because we had failed to test him ? ’ |
| 11 | He finished typing , took the paper from the machine and gave it to her . |
| 12 | We had the match in our grasp and gave it away , ’ he said . |
| 13 | I prised off a scab and gave it the tongue test . |
| 14 | He walked around the desk and gave it to Michael . |
| 15 | In 1987 , I founded by prestigious First Turkey of the Christmas Season award and gave it to the British banker who had lent ( and lost ) £500,000 to a penniless student for him to play stock market futures . |
| 16 | When the horn was robed she threaded back the leather of the necklace and gave it to Dreamer , who put it round his neck and tucked this frail memory of the broken boy into his furs . |
| 17 | I took out some money and gave it to him . |
| 18 | All Connor did was to add a preservative to this enzyme that gave it a few months ' shelf life . |
| 19 | But the electron carries a high energy transverse to the direction of the collision , and thus bears the signature of the W particle that gave it birth . |
| 20 | She unpacked a self-locating mine , punched in her identifier and gave it a simple verbal instruction . |
| 21 | Galla , Somali , Gurage , people from the subject kingdom of Kaffa , negroes from the west , mingled on the streets with their Amhara and Tigrean overlords ; but it was these latter who dominated the scene , imposed their stamp upon the town and gave it its unique character . |
| 22 | Realizing the kicks that many men get out of listening to women mouthing obscenities , he set up a unique telephone service to cater for the need and gave it the name Just Filmz Inc . |
| 23 | ‘ You mean , if you cut that picture up into four — which would be a distinctly pro-life act if you want my opinion and gave it to four different restorers , they 'd each stop at a different point ? ’ |
| 24 | Thus the Immigration Acts , beginning with the 1962 Act ‘ took discrimination out of the market place and gave it the sanction of the state . |
| 25 | Jacqui 's occupation had n't improved it ; she was n't the sort of girl who immediately revolutionized a place and gave it a woman 's touch ; she just spread her belongings over the widest possible area . |
| 26 | ‘ Karl Scholz bought most of the land and my father bought the house and the rest and gave it to me to run . |
| 27 | The press picked up the story the following day and gave it wide coverage . |
| 28 | Mr. Occhi got into the taxi , took £1 out of his wallet and gave it to the appellant who then , the wallet being still open , took a further £6 out of it . |
| 29 | Quinn pushed open the street-door , which opened outwards , closed it behind him , dropped a wooden wedge he had carved in the privacy of the toilet under the sill and gave it a hard kick . |
| 30 | The witchdoctor poured some milky medicine from a large bottle into a spoon and gave it to me to drink . |