Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] [pron] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zambia has been telling me a lot , you know . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Geoff has been giving me a lot of help , having a look at my action and making a few minor adjustments . |
| 3 | You know , he thought I 'd been telling him a lie . |
| 4 | But er , I was giving this er I 'd been giving it a stroke , and er it 's sort of dying to be fussed , but I do n't think they give it any attention across there . |
| 5 | All you can do is give them a bit of comfort in that their letters have been read . |
| 6 | after it 's been cut the least you can do is give yourself a shake |
| 7 | What I 'll do is give you a system whereby even at the drop of a hat you will be able to put together a few words and speak with clarity , speak coherently and be able to put your point of view across . |
| 8 | The thing that I 'd like to do and that I really wish I could do is give you a job here but Personnel have said I 'm already fully staffed . ’ |
| 9 | Yeah erm one thing , you were a little bit nervous to start with and what that can do is to give you a tendency to piggyback questions , is that something you 're aware of ? |
| 10 | ‘ The least I can do is buy you a drink . ’ |
| 11 | It has n't prepared me for the outside world ; all it 's done is given me an awareness of myself . |
| 12 | If you get it right , the cricket ball will travel two hundred yards in four seconds , and all you 've done is give it a knock like knocking the top off a bottle of stout , and it makes a noise like a trout taking a fly … |
| 13 | All it achieves is to give them an air of generosity , and so put Abraham at an even greater disadvantage in the rounds to come . |
| 14 | When your FlexiLoan is arranged , we will give you a special cheque book so that when the time comes to spend some or all of your borrowing limit , all you have to do is make our a cheque for the right amount . |
| 15 | All you have to do is to mail us a postcard with your name and address written on it together with your answer to the following simple question : |
| 16 | Give Peace A Chance , John Lennon & Yoko Ono : The hirsute duo 's anthem became the plaintive ‘ All we are saying is give us a goal ’ |
| 17 | or NAAN , I do n't care , so long you include it at the end of your first appointments because at the end of the day all you 're doing is saving yourself a bit of time , and that 's the whole purpose of ANNA to make sure that when you go back on your second appointment , this guy is committed to do something . |
| 18 | So , gentlemen , what I 'm really doing is to show you a bit of the background and the fact that it 's not all doom and gloom there is a hell of a light at the tunnel and in matter of fact , we got another lecture on the channel tunnel in a few days time ! |
| 19 | And I 'm not threatening you ; what I 'm doing is making you an offer . |
| 20 | The students , both in this series of interviews , and in another pre-structured evaluation interview , said that the main advantage of the course in information retrieval had been to give them an overall , systematic view of scientific information flow , which helped them to understand how to look for the information they required : |
| 21 | I had been doing you an injustice ; but I am going to make a will leaving you all I have . |
| 22 | Having set the Duchy on the road to providing an income for the Prince of Wales , the next task had been to find him a house and , of all those short-listed in the summer of 1980 , Charles chose Highgrove . |
| 23 | Floy , who had been cutting himself a slice of ham , looked up , because there was a lick of anticipatory pleasure in Goibniu 's tone . |
| 24 | But I see there 's blood sausage , ’ he said , and sent them such a terrible leery grin , that Snodgrass , who had been cutting himself a slice from this , which he had innocently thought was something like the spicy Renascian liver-and-wine-roll , recoiled and snatched his hand back as if he had been burnt . |
| 25 | She got a , I think she got a bit of a shock you know she actually probably thought she was better than she was and a lot of people had been giving her a lot of pats on the back and I tell you where half of that emanated from was down the corridor . |
| 26 | I 've been promising myself a drink for the last couple of hours … ’ |
| 27 | They 've been calling me a baboon and shit . |
| 28 | I 've got two thirds of back and I 've been doing it a month . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been giving it a lot of thought , ’ he says slowly , chewing on the pipe , and smoothing the glossy black hair above the drooping face . |
| 30 | ‘ No , but I 've been giving it a lot of thought , and it seems to me that the person who fits the bill is … ’ |