Example sentences of "[verb] be giving [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | VAUXHALL has been giving more details of changes and additions to its range for the sales year . |
| 2 | Well I mean I , apparently he 'd been giving this , this guy stick like all day . |
| 3 | When I lived right on the job it used to drive my wife round the bend — I 'd be at home on a weekend , perhaps in the garden , and I 'd think about something in the greenhouse across the road so I 'd go over there and disappear for an hour whereas perhaps I should have been giving more time to my family . |
| 4 | He said of Lynda Chalker , Foreign Office Minister responsible for foreign aid programmes : ‘ All she is doing is giving these poor people the chance to breed more children who will suffer the same horrible fate as their parents — death by starvation . ’ |
| 5 | Although he was chary of broaching the subject of a full-time shepherd , when he did so , he found that his father had been giving some thought to the matter . |
| 6 | This had introduced them to mechanisms which suggested a terminology applicable to their own science making it possible for them at last to give the behaviourists , who had been giving those not of their ilk a hard time , some of their own medicine . |
| 7 | ‘ So I 'll get clobbered if people read suddenly in the Daily Mirror that I 've been giving some away . ’ |
| 8 | I 've been giving some thought to the content of the next magazine with which I hope you can help . |
| 9 | I 've been giving some thought to the next edition of our magazine Rural Wales / Cymru Wledig , and I would like to persuade you to contribute the next Comment Column ( see page 2 of the magazine ) . |
| 10 | I 've been giving some thought to the next edition of Rural Wales/ Cymru Wledig , and to the contribution you could make . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been giving some thought to our — problem , ’ he stated . |