Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] give it " in BNC.
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| 1 | For it had obviously been a palace once , the high Gothic arches of the medieval windows and the carved stone Romeo-and-Juliet balconies giving it a fairy-tale air . |
| 2 | Juniper berries give it its distinctive flavour ( and its name ) , but each recipe is different . |
| 3 | Back on the white(ish) stuff , John Welford made the second ascent of Simon Nadin 's 1987 testpiece Gonads giving it F8a+ , and then red-pointed Out of my Tree at Raven Tor as a warm down . |
| 4 | sorts of different exchange situations gives it a specious advantage over other media of exchange . |
| 5 | Forest fans gave it to that slag Clough and in the long run they got a bitter reward . |
| 6 | The final stage was to roll her hair with Tech Ni Pli velcro rollers to give it extra fullness and shape . |
| 7 | The media was not interested : the New York Times gave it two paragraphs ; Life and Look magazines turned down the excellent investigative article by Washington freelance journalist Seymour Hersh , and the big news organisations failed to follow up tips about the case . |
| 8 | The fighting chair on her aft deck had thick white leather straps giving it the appearance of a padded electric chair , while the dazzle paint gave the boat an oddly military look that was completed by the number 666 that was painted on her bows in silver-edged black numerals like those warships use to display their commissioning numbers . |
| 9 | The roomy silos of the hull flanks gave it a bulbous appearance that defied approval by any aesthetic but the purely functional . |