Example sentences of "been giving [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The laughter had stopped a while ago and , ever since , Lydia 's imagination had been giving her a hard time . |
| 2 | She got a , I think she got a bit of a shock you know she actually probably thought she was better than she was and a lot of people had been giving her a lot of pats on the back and I tell you where half of that emanated from was down the corridor . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll just bet she was some broad he used to be in love with or something , and he 's been giving her the brush-off while she 's trying to fan the embers , get back to the way it used to be . ’ |
| 4 | Pilger had been giving him a hard time . |
| 5 | " Apparently some of the younger fellows in the Owsla have been giving him a thin time — teasing him about his fur , you know , and saying he only got his place because of the Threarah . |
| 6 | The man had a faint discoloration under one eye — he could n't help speculating whether Dotty had n't been giving him a hard time . |
| 7 | Ven swiftly reassured her , and — even while it was dawning on her how he was accepting her ‘ no ’ without question when she had been giving him a ‘ yes , yes , yes ’ for the past five minutes , he was reaching for her wrap . |
| 8 | ‘ This magazine has been giving me a hard time . |
| 9 | ‘ Geoff has been giving me a lot of help , having a look at my action and making a few minor adjustments . |
| 10 | He says , ‘ You 've been giving me the wrong club all week . ’ |
| 11 | He argued he had been giving them a practical demonstration of his work as a ‘ psycho-sexual ’ counsellor and doctor . |
| 12 | ‘ Luke been giving you a hard time ? ’ |
| 13 | One might have hoped for silence from Diana Mosley but now she has been giving us the benefit of her experience on the subject of sexual politics : ‘ There are quite as many henpecked husbands in the world as there are battered wives , something feminists fail to notice . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been giving it a lot of thought , ’ he says slowly , chewing on the pipe , and smoothing the glossy black hair above the drooping face . |
| 15 | I 've been giving it a great deal of thought myself in recent weeks . |
| 16 | ‘ No , but I 've been giving it a lot of thought , and it seems to me that the person who fits the bill is … ’ |
| 17 | Course I have , been giving it a what we 've had , like when the kids did n't eat their dinner or we ai n't eat all our dinner been giving it what 's left on the plate , well |
| 18 | But er , I was giving this er I 'd been giving it a stroke , and er it 's sort of dying to be fussed , but I do n't think they give it any attention across there . |
| 19 | But Aldi says it has had trouble : the Office of Fair Trading is investigating Aldi 's claim that suppliers , frightened of affronting their main customers , have been giving it the cold shoulder . |