Example sentences of "[be] give [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're giving me the sack — Sir ? ’ she said with contempt . |
| 2 | It 's nice to know that you 're giving me the benefit of the doubt . ’ |
| 3 | But even now , I still believe that if you trust someone you 're giving them the chance to prove that they are trustworthy . |
| 4 | Erm we 're giving them the appropriate and suitable skills to be able to do their job . |
| 5 | You 're giving them the perfect opportunity to cut in again . ’ |
| 6 | And your answers should be couched in the terms that you would answer somebody in the pub , in that you 're giving them the information , you 're giving it to them in a clean way . |
| 7 | you this turtle as an incentive cos you 're giving him the turtle anyway but he wo n't know that unless his mum 's told him . |
| 8 | What 's the doubt that you 're giving him the benefit of ? |
| 9 | ‘ They 're giving us the extra points ! |
| 10 | Now we 're giving you the chance to experience the thrills and spills of life as a Windsor with our royal snakes and ladders game . |
| 11 | TODAY we 're giving you the chance to sample the carefree life of a pools winner — in the fabulous West Indies . |
| 12 | er to make sure that we 're giving you the right platform to earn money to keep all of your er aspects going . |
| 13 | ‘ But I 'll need some support if I am to give him the service he wants . |
| 14 | For the US or Britain to have been the first to recognize Bao Dai would , said Acheson , have been to give him the kiss of death . |
| 15 | If I 'd had control over everything I would have had a full Wales tour in the summer and then we would n't have needed to have the practice games , but as it is we are giving them the advantage and I wanted to try to do something about that . ’ |
| 16 | And at only 70 calories per generous serving of plain boiled rice , you know you are giving them the healthy option . |
| 17 | Your baby will love the taste — and you can be happy in the knowledge that Robinsons concentrated juices are giving them the goodness that they need . |
| 18 | Manager Bryan Hamilton , who offered the 21-year-old Londoner the opportunity , said : ‘ He is looking for a change of direction while his athletics career is on hold and we are giving him the chance to prove his worth as a footballer . ’ |
| 19 | So , in Part One we are giving you the education , and in Part Two we will introduce you to some carefully designed experiments , as well as some more education so you can become your own diet and weight-loss expert . |
| 20 | to see which ones are giving you the good profits , sort of thing . |
| 21 | We are giving you the opportunity of winning the shirt worn by Liverpool and Wales star Ian Rush when he beat the club 's goal scoring record . |
| 22 | In supporting our own active participation in , and control over our own affairs , such people are giving us the right kind of help . |
| 23 | Modern performers , failing to appreciate the tremendous range of tempos covered by these dances [ minuets ] , are giving us the bottom half only . |
| 24 | I am giving them the most careful and thorough consideration , and I shall reach a decision and announce it as soon as I can . |
| 25 | ‘ I am giving him the chance to be his own publisher , ’ said Mr Maxwell . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 28 | He says , ‘ You 've been giving me the wrong club all week . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |