Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] giving [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They brought him inside to erm recruit without giving him any training at all and what I do has been gained over the last twenty years of recruitment . |
| 2 | The equity partners will usually want to give their junior colleagues and associates the opportunity to prove their ultimate worth to the firm and that can only be done by giving them direct experience of management . |
| 3 | Old close or tight-covered sofas and chairs can be utterly transformed by giving them new loose covers . |
| 4 | The job consists of giving him loving care , does n't it ? |
| 5 | He was a restrained and sophisticated lover and , once his initial surge of passion was quieted , his concentration was focused on giving her more pleasure than it was possible to imagine . |
| 6 | Some master , equally lonely , would be set to giving him extra essays and physical training to keep him occupied . |
| 7 | Thus if an individual is to be deprived of a benefit which was enjoyed in the past , and which he could legitimately expect to continue , or he has received assurances from the decision-maker that such a benefit will not be withdrawn without giving him some opportunity to argue the contrary , then in either instance an opportunity for the individual to make representations will be accorded . |
| 8 | And my mum and dad thought of giving us that and my mum 's just lost her job . |
| 9 | He ran all the way home , keeping well off the road in case Nails came in the car and insisted on giving him another lift . |
| 10 | I say ‘ solitary c. ’ because they gave me a little ward of my own , but it was anything but uncomfortable , as they gave me a treatment which ‘ private ward ’ patients in Britain might envy , except that the food of course was Chinese , and they insisted on giving me 5 meals a day , so that I had some trouble getting my appetite back to normal . |
| 11 | So the appropriate documents we went to the Croatian Customs who stamped our papers and insisted on giving us each a bottle of orange juice . |
| 12 | Now they were talking about giving him some kind of a disablement classification , which stung . |
| 13 | They 're obliged to charge us a certain amount for access , but they 're talking about giving us that money back as a grant . |
| 14 | She admitted that , ‘ even though you knew that what you said did n't matter ’ , it was a daunting experience ; in fact ‘ afterwards , counsel apologised for giving me such a hard time ’ . |
| 15 | And rarely do individuals deign to oblige by giving us that nice , clear view of white rump , dark eyestripe , or green speculum we are so anxious for . |
| 16 | ‘ The idea of my book was to encourage students to become more and more interested in music and composing by giving them first-hand experience of keyboards ’ he said . |
| 17 | The software will also work across multiple domains , so that network managers in different parts of the organisation can simultaneously tweak the network ; this is achieved by giving them simultaneous access to the central management database . |
| 18 | Keep the children amused while you 're cooking by giving them one of the books from the new Safeway Superbooks range . |