Example sentences of "gave it [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frankenstein created a man but he was so disgusted by its sight that he gave it no name . |
| 2 | At traffic lights she gave it a wary smile , slid into gear and played Nina Simone 's ‘ I need a Little Sugar in My Bowl ’ . |
| 3 | But the demands it made upon my timid psyche gave it a quality and significance its components : loose rock , repetitive moves and so forth , would n't immediately suggest . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ When the red light changed , I gave it a big welly-full . |
| 6 | We opt for The Baker 's Wife at the Phoenix and all vote it a definite winner , and I wonder again at the jaundiced palate of critics who gave it a fair old drubbing when it first trotted out . |
| 7 | Jane gave it a tin of meat which she had found plus — with great relief — the tin opener . |
| 8 | ‘ Surely we must take that arrow out , ’ Perkin said , and put his hand on the shaft and gave it a tug . |
| 9 | They grumble that the company 's membership of the British Franchise Association gave it a ring of confidence in which investors put their faith . |
| 10 | The house it penned was old and brown with a porch that gave it a sort of potbelly . |
| 11 | Endill gave it a try . |
| 12 | He gave it a few pumps and collected an armful of logs for the stove before going in through the back door . |
| 13 | What is clear is that the military origins of nuclear power in this country gave it a powerful boost as an infant technology , and that the umbilical cord has not been severed . |
| 14 | Rosemary 's Baby had done well , financially and critically but the American Catholic Office for Motion pictures , the former Legion of Decency , gave it a ‘ C ’ rating , meaning condemned , for its explicit sexual content and its perverted use and distortion of fundamental Christian beliefs . |
| 15 | Then , in September 1989 , in The Independent , he gave it a different slant : ‘ The idea of Active Citizenship , ’ he wrote , ‘ is a necessary complement to that of the enterprise culture . |
| 16 | This part of the camp was in itself no more attractive than the part in which we lived , but the very fact that we did not live there , that we did not know every inch of its dusty ground , that normally we only saw it from the distance , gave it a charm of its own . |
| 17 | Several Graben-like extensions in the north-west direction gave it a width of about 500 km ( Ziegler 1979 ) . |
| 18 | Death — she had so longed for it that she hardly gave it a second thought . |
| 19 | When we gave it a tightfisted 52% in Issue 79 , our main bone of contention was that it was ridiculously overpriced . |
| 20 | She gave it a brief glance , then pushed it back across the desk . |
| 21 | She gently eased it off his lap , gave it a few licks and pushed it over to me for first bite . |
| 22 | Tamar gave it a flick , which sent it swirling across the room . |
| 23 | An apricot cave of pastel carpet and toning walls , soft lights , Mozart and easy chairs gave it a ‘ late evening lounge ’ feel , at odds with a white-capped staff bristling with efficiency behind the computerised reception . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I know if people stopped carping and gave it a chance , they would get hooked . |
| 26 | They were both there : the three-inch diagonal scar near the wrist and the permanent multiple fracture of the third finger , which gave it a twisted , arthritic appearance . |
| 27 | Then she held out her hand to Eileen and gave it a strong clasp that made her wince . |
| 28 | Gurder and Angalo gave it a critical look . |
| 29 | He found another lever and gave it a nudge . |
| 30 | 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 … |