Example sentences of "have [be] giving [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This magazine has been giving me a hard time . |
| 2 | The laughter had stopped a while ago and , ever since , Lydia 's imagination had been giving her a hard time . |
| 3 | Pilger had been giving him a hard time . |
| 4 | He argued he had been giving them a practical demonstration of his work as a ‘ psycho-sexual ’ counsellor and doctor . |
| 5 | He says , ‘ You 've been giving me the wrong club all week . ’ |
| 6 | I 've been giving it a great deal of thought myself in recent weeks . |
| 7 | " Apparently some of the younger fellows in the Owsla have been giving him a thin time — teasing him about his fur , you know , and saying he only got his place because of the Threarah . |
| 8 | But Aldi says it has had trouble : the Office of Fair Trading is investigating Aldi 's claim that suppliers , frightened of affronting their main customers , have been giving it the cold shoulder . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll just bet she was some broad he used to be in love with or something , and he 's been giving her the brush-off while she 's trying to fan the embers , get back to the way it used to be . ’ |