Example sentences of "[pron] [be] give [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Bowe has always said that I am the man he wants more than anybody and now that I am giving him the perfect opportunity , he is shying away from it .
2 I am afraid I am giving you a great deal of trouble . ’
3 We d Okay we do n't know , we want to ask them we w So if you are an MP in North Yorkshire and er you think I 'm giving you a hard time and I know you sneakily listen to this programme , I know you listen .
4 On that morning I was giving them the latest news of Nigel .
5 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 .
6 At 60,000 feet it was harder to tell which was giving me the better high : the puppy poo , the Beastie Boys album or the Cessna .
7 I think the time has probably passed now , all the schools have got their own budgets , they 've got their own builders who are giving them a good service , and I doubt whether this is the time to resurrect that , especially with local government review not far off , and the future of a county-wide D S O in some doubt , when it comes to local government review .
8 And at only 70 calories per generous serving of plain boiled rice , you know you are giving them the healthy option .
9 You 're giving him a tough time , it 's not fair to make it tougher .
10 You 're giving them the perfect opportunity to cut in again . ’
11 Who do you think was making the audience laugh while you were giving them the full force of your personality ?
12 She 's given her a cultural background for life .
13 Fifty pound 'll go to the fre exchange cos she 's giving me a hundred .
14 The bearded head gardener who is always tending the apple tree ; the wise old sea-captain who never rushes to judgment ; the character you 're not quite introduced to , but who is giving you a creepy feeling by Chapter Four … pack them off into storage , all of them .
15 Probably nothing , he was thinking , she 's only winding me up , and the thought that she was gave him a pleasurable kick .
16 He thought she was giving him an unmistakable message of availability .
17 A second or so later she was giving herself a mental shake and opening her eyes again .
18 Erm we 're giving them the appropriate and suitable skills to be able to do their job .
19 This takes place in late November and on two separate evenings we fill our largest lecture theatre with local school children from both sides of the county , sometimes a little bit further afield , and that means that we 're giving them an illustrated lecture by one of our more distinguished colleagues , and we entertain and inform , I think , something like eight hundred school children every year in that alone .
20 The gauntlet was down , the opportunity to talk to arrange a forum , to come together , land owners , local authorities , the hunt 's people , er the interested parties , to come together and look for a decent way of hunting and that way is probably drag hunting and we 're giving you a golden opportunity to start that route .
21 er to make sure that we 're giving you the right platform to earn money to keep all of your er aspects going .
22 Should we be giving them a wide berth for fear of rampant Rottweilers lunging at our wing mirrors ?
23 Erm there is to give you a little bit of an idea of hoe those rules would apply and who comes into it A well known family tree for you just to look at .
24 er we do n't have to po er , you see , it 's to do with school anyway , but they 're giving them a packed lunch so I believe .
25 They 're giving us the extra points !
26 And , and of course needlework , but erm they were mainly the , I suppose they were giving you a good er grounding as they 'd call it in those days .
27 That same day he told me , as if he were giving me a magnificent present , that he thought he could pull strings and have me posted with him .
28 It 's give it a new lease of life .
29 And far from being envious , it is giving me the greatest pleasure . ’
30 He 's given you a new lease of life , has n't he , with his flattery , his sucking-up . ’
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