Example sentences of "be give [pers pn] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You 're giving them the perfect opportunity to cut in again . ’
2 ‘ They 're giving us the extra points !
3 er to make sure that we 're giving you the right platform to earn money to keep all of your er aspects going .
4 And at only 70 calories per generous serving of plain boiled rice , you know you are giving them the healthy option .
5 to see which ones are giving you the good profits , sort of thing .
6 In supporting our own active participation in , and control over our own affairs , such people are giving us the right kind of help .
7 Modern performers , failing to appreciate the tremendous range of tempos covered by these dances [ minuets ] , are giving us the bottom half only .
8 ‘ Bowe has always said that I am the man he wants more than anybody and now that I am giving him the perfect opportunity , he is shying away from it .
9 He says , ‘ You 've been giving me the wrong club all week . ’
10 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 .
11 But I think I would be giving you the wrong impression if I suggested that most of the evaluation studies with which I 've been concerned have involved this kind of conclusion , or this kind of result .
12 Who do you think was making the audience laugh while you were giving them the full force of your personality ?
13 ‘ Yes , that was because Lesley-Jane was giving me the wrong cues .
14 I know what profession she 's in , and no wonder that taxi driver was giving me the big smirk .
15 By the middle of February , when the Shah had been in Morocco more than a month , it had become common gossip in the diplomatic corps that Hassan was giving him the cold shoulder .
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