Example sentences of "[be] giving [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if you just put it in a slightly more formal way on radio , that 's what you 're doing is , you 're not shifting the buck , you 're answering the question , you 're just , you 're giving yourself a bit of leeway . |
| 2 | Now if you knew which numbers were selected less frequently than others , and you kept that information to yourself and you bet on those numbers that were selected less frequently , then unless there 's any special reason why those numbers should produce fewer score draws than other numbers , you 're giving yourself an advantage because on the weeks in which those numbers produce score draws there are fewer people who 'll have them down as their numbers , and so there 's more money around for those few people who have them down , including you , and so if you win , then you 'd expect to win more money . |
| 3 | ‘ We 're giving her a chance , ’ said Luke curtly . |
| 4 | Yeah , no they 're not , they 're giving her a lump sum |
| 5 | You come around here every week with whatever chick you fell into the sack with the night before and you 're giving me a morality lecture ! |
| 6 | I said , ‘ You 're giving me a headache ! ’ |
| 7 | And again analyse : ‘ You 're giving me a lot of advice here from your viewpoint — I need to plot my own course . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ They 're giving me a week . |
| 9 | They 're giving me a birthday party today . |
| 10 | Oh you 're giving me a card are you ? |
| 11 | You 're giving me a headache . |
| 12 | You 're giving them a a load of old flannel and trying to trying to trying to persuade them that something 's true you 're deceiving them . |
| 13 | We 're giving them a chance to show us what they can do . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Well I keep telling you to move that away from the house I said talking about your rising crime , you 're giving them a ladder to use as well ! |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | You 're giving him a tough time , it 's not fair to make it tougher . |
| 18 | His foster parents say they 're giving him a break from events back home . |
| 19 | His foster parents say they 're giving him a break from events back home . |
| 20 | You 're giving us a total of twenty-three . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Her people are giving her a car for Christmas — Susan , you 're not listening ! ’ |
| 23 | You are giving me a look ai n't you babe ? |
| 24 | Let herself go a bit — ye get that with women whose men are giving them a hard time , and who hav'na found a way of getting their retaliation in first . ’ |
| 25 | If as part of the task you specify the effect the programme is to have on the audience , you are building in the criteria by which that audience can judge the programme and you are giving them a purpose in viewing . |
| 26 | You can accept payments from passengers in your car if you are giving them a lift for social or other similar purposes . |
| 27 | You can accept payments from passengers in your car if you are giving them a lift for social or other similar purposes . |
| 28 | You can accept payments from passengers in your car if you are giving them a lift for social or other similar purposes . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Adrian , who professes to prefer football to cricket , will certainly be paying more attention to the game from now on , particularly as we are giving him a year 's membership to the Young Cricketer Bunbury as our Young Cricketer of the Month . |