Example sentences of "giving [pron] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are just plain difficult and like giving everyone a bad time . |
| 2 | ‘ We will make sure they go to families who are capable of giving them a good home , ’ said Mrs Henderson . |
| 3 | Once you 've finished with the Steamatic , allow your carpets to dry for 1–2 hours before giving them a good vacuum to remove any remaining dirt particles . |
| 4 | Yeah , it 's all religious , hypocrisy okay , humane , it 's humane to slog these boys down the chimney , yeah , it 's humane giving them a good beating is n't it , right then . |
| 5 | and giving them a good pull . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The funding was running down , clumps of weed had pushed up between the paving slabs , and whole layers of rendering were falling off the façades of the buildings , giving them a seedy , leprous aspect . |
| 8 | The proportions of the decency panelling over the short half-canopies were different giving them a squarer appearance . |
| 9 | In another study George Bokert increased the degree of thirst in his subjects by not only depriving them of water for twenty-four hours , but also giving them a salty meal before going to bed . |
| 10 | Should we be giving them a wide berth for fear of rampant Rottweilers lunging at our wing mirrors ? |
| 11 | For maximum volume and root lift , turn your head upside down — the special ‘ fingers ’ inside the cup will help life and separate curls giving them a fuller look . |
| 12 | With five minutes to go , it looked like a Haslemere win , but an error in the lineout call resulted in a Mariners try which was converted , giving them a 22–13 lead . |
| 13 | The court will not , however , read an ambiguity into clear words by giving them a strained or tortured meaning . |
| 14 | Quite a number of the students knew no English when they arrived , and the first year was spent in giving them a working knowledge . |
| 15 | If not , why should Brackenbury , that most circumspect of gentlemen , have placed emphasis on those last eleven words , giving them a sinister ring ? |
| 16 | It is n't really much use then is it , just giving them a rough ? |
| 17 | He argued he had been giving them a practical demonstration of his work as a ‘ psycho-sexual ’ counsellor and doctor . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A recent revival of enthusiasm for Gaelic among both lots of people is giving them a rare common interest . |
| 20 | It has been found that taking them away from the contamination and giving them a healthy diet for a month can boost their damaged immune systems for up to 18 months . |
| 21 | On the other hand ( see page 46 ) reasoning with children involves giving them a great deal of attention which might reinforce and maintain , if not increase , the quarrelsomeness . |
| 22 | A View of the Present State of Ireland enforces its perspective of the savage nature of the Irish by giving them a curious ethnogeny . |
| 23 | Open/36 is designed to enable System/36 users to move their applications , without recompilation to Sparc systems , while giving them a complete System/36 environment that includes all their familiar tools . |
| 24 | That was when they all realized acting like this was only playing into the hands of the authorities and giving them a real basis for enforcing their petty laws . |
| 25 | Small mammals tend to have rapid heartbeats and a fast metabolic rate giving them a high-speed life , while for large mammals the reverse is true . |
| 26 | The ‘ opposition ’ governors imagine themselves to be more important than they really are ; they have state , not federal , responsibilities ; their comments on federal matters should therefore not be regarded as of primary importance ; and , if they were reported fully at all times , this would be giving them a greater prominence in national affairs than they deserve . |
| 27 | Much as the regimes of Eastern Europe might welcome the support of their neighbours against Moscow — and hence a strengthening of such multilateral forums — they also view their neighbours as rival claimants to Moscow 's favour and are wary of giving them a greater voice in their own affairs . |
| 28 | Three legs , oh aye ! smirked Moira Law , giving them a coy wink . |
| 29 | The upper storeys of the dwellings leaned out over the street , giving them a drunken appearance , and the dim caverns beyond the light of the high street seemed to Isabel to mirror the dark side of this city of churches . |
| 30 | Almost all their time in bed was spent in either Stage 4 sleep or REM sleep , giving them a near-normal total amount of these two sleep stages , and very low levels of light sleep . |