Example sentences of "been giving [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been giving him half of it . |
| 2 | I 've been giving him artificial respiration , and I think he 's going to be all right , but we ought to get him into shelter as quickly as we can . |
| 3 | Ace had been giving her conflicting messages ever since the first time they 'd met again outside her bedroom door in France . |
| 4 | Apparently there 'd been this girl , Spanish or Portuguese I think , and Ollie had been giving her private lessons at his flat , and he thought she fancied him , and he 'd had a couple of Special Brews at the time and thought she was just shy , and then he tried kissing her , and it 's the old , old , sordid story , is n't it ? |
| 5 | Now let it rub off on greedy directors of other companies , especially those recently privatised , who have been giving themselves huge rises while keeping down workers ' pay . |
| 6 | She 's been giving me strange looks ever since I got here — doubtless because it 's not exactly commonplace for the star of the show to make bookings for the lowly make-up artist . ’ |
| 7 | I said my wife has been giving me two and three bits every day thinking you 're having one of them . |
| 8 | ‘ And that 's why that damned woman has been giving me such strange knowing looks ! |
| 9 | Why have you been giving me such a hard time for the past ten minutes ? ’ |
| 10 | But since there is obviously a market for the invention of new mountain pursuits , I have been giving it some thought . |
| 11 | Which meant that he had been giving it considerable quiet thought . |
| 12 | You will probably have been giving your elderly parent emotional support all the way through the anxiety of her husband 's terminal illness , unless his death was sudden and unexpected . |
| 13 | According to my reckoning , I should have been giving my full and entire concentration to the final chapter of my work — a time when I would not , as Milada Pankracova knew , want any interruptions . |