Example sentences of "he [was/were] [adv] giving " in BNC.
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| 1 | Melanie was worried that this would upset Stan , but he was already giving clear signs that he just wanted to avoid conflict . |
| 2 | Between 1949 and 1954 much of his spare time had been given to poetic scribbling ; and he was also giving voice to a measure of vacillation and disillusionment , which we shall encounter in his poetry from time to time . |
| 3 | Styling himself ‘ Dr. Isaac Titford ’ , he had been commissioned surgeon ( not by any means so prestigious a profession then as now ) in the first battalion , Sixtieth Royal American Regiment , and had lived for a while in Virginia ; he was also giving his enterprising spirit full reign out there in the West Indies , fathering the odd quadroon or two , dabbling in the slave trade , a postmaster at Spanish Town , a partner in a firm of druggists in Kingston and the owner of a coffee and pimento plantation . |
| 4 | But he was clearly giving the orders . |
| 5 | Brando said , ‘ Why , you sonofabitch , ’ and I said , ‘ Well , up yours too , pal , ’ and then he was suddenly giving me all of it , and I could do no wrong . |
| 6 | I bet you thought she was beautiful , ’ He was now giving his whole attention to Charles , who said , ‘ If you say so , Henry , then it must be right . |
| 7 | He was certainly giving it out . ’ |
| 8 | Lanfranc himself was only partly converted , and , even in his last days , he was still giving quantities of the bodies of his predecessors , which had filled the old church before the fire of 1067 , to his new foundation of canons outside the walls of the city . |