Example sentences of "was giving [pers pn] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhere at the back of her mind , it occurred to Bernice that Bishop was giving her an awful lot of rope . |
| 2 | Until the mishap he was giving me a great feel and I was delighted how he was going in the blinkers . ’ |
| 3 | But no , it seemed to be the local name for the twenty kilo fish which was giving me a hard time , though later someone else called it a kingfish . |
| 4 | When he straightened up , Pion was giving him a puzzled look . |
| 5 | He thought she was giving him an unmistakable message of availability . |
| 6 | He probably was k feeling kind because he thought he was giving you a nice stick . |
| 7 | And we did it first half , and when we were in possession , we were winning it in their sort of last third of the field , and that was giving us a great chance to create scoring chances and that 's what we 've done again today which has worked very well . |
| 8 | ‘ He was giving us a bad time , though , till you came in . |