Example sentences of "[noun] and it give [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Out there is a whole world full of garbage and it gives me ulcers to throw one more shred of scum back on the heap . ’
2 His appearance in the Toyota World Match Play at Wentworth in October was his 17th in succession and it gave him the chance of winning the title for a record sixth time .
3 He was well placed in the cotton industry and it gave him a generous income ; therefore it had to take precedence , but the monotony of arriving at the same place at the same time every day now bored him as much as had the mechanical frenzy of the bobbins when he arrived .
4 On tonight 's match , Cooper said : ‘ There 's a lot at stake and it gives us the opportunity to put things right . ’
5 ‘ It was interesting to take on these different values and it gave us a new perspective . ’
6 ‘ I was quite worried about making it hold up on the screen for two-and-a-half hours and it gave me pause .
7 So I went to a very good secondary school but I was in the A one stream right the way through and I was always within that top three of that A one stream and it gave me confidence and I really got on .
8 It was a strange place and it gave him strange ideas ; he was oddly aware of those who had played , and loved and quarrelled there .
9 This extravaganza was directed by Max Reinhart and it gave me my first experience as an impresario , for I was commissioned by the MGM office for Canada to ‘ organize the promotion ’ of the film in our area .
10 But one must still be wary the fact that although we 've got this nice electric gadget , that we drop the probe into a bucket of water and it gives us er a salinity it is still entirely dependent on this ratio and this ratio is based on the constancy of composition which is very good for open ocean waters but breaks down in coastal waters where erosional processes , where fresh water additions and the sediment loads of the rivers may actually alter this ratio , okay ?
11 In China they 've been eating mouldering cabbage for aeons and it gives them cancer of the oesophagus .
12 She could feel his heartbeat against her breast and it gave her a feeling of longing she had never experienced before .
13 The ten-point margin reflected the Police 's overall superiority and it gave them a deserved triumph in only their second appearance in the final .
14 Four four , square root and it gives you two .
15 You get wee hooks and you hang them up and they stick there right , and just put your cups on it in a row and it gives you more room on the table .
16 But in the Edwardian love story , Howards End , her co-star is Sir Anthony Hopkins and it gives her the chance to shrug off the Olivier/Leigh and Burton/Taylor labels she and Branagh have collected .
17 It was a Scottish voice and it gave her comfort .
18 Boss Lennie Lawrence said : ‘ We have two home games after Southampton and it gives us a great chance to cement a top six place . ’
19 Molly 's uncle , Philip , Lord Noel-Baker , one of our Vice-Presidents recently celebrated his 90th birthday and it gives us great pleasure to add our greetings to the many he has received from all over the world .
20 The girls are required to plan their own day , and when they are used to this system , most prefer it to the structure of school and it gives them some control over their daily lives .
21 Erm it 's an adventure and it gives you a sense of freedom .
22 The same goes for O one of a gram for example , toxin and it gives you a hundred thousand er as as I 've indicated here , there 's a , a wide range for the potency .
23 It gives students access to another source of spoken English and it gives them one or two hours ' exposure to the language .
24 Wilson knew she was being patronised if not mocked outright , but no trace of expression crossed her face and it gave her satisfaction that she knew it did not .
25 Colleagues , can I now take , er , a moment of your time and it gives me very great pleasure to call upon the President to deliver his address to congress .
26 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 .
27 That gave Webb an easy catch and it gave him the time to see that Bath would have a man over if he ran the ball to the left .
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