Example sentences of "[be] giving [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're giving them the perfect opportunity to cut in again . ’ |
| 2 | Erm we 're giving them the appropriate and suitable skills to be able to do their job . |
| 3 | ‘ They 're giving us the extra points ! |
| 4 | er to make sure that we 're giving you the right platform to earn money to keep all of your er aspects going . |
| 5 | And at only 70 calories per generous serving of plain boiled rice , you know you are giving them the healthy option . |
| 6 | to see which ones are giving you the good profits , sort of thing . |
| 7 | In supporting our own active participation in , and control over our own affairs , such people are giving us the right kind of help . |
| 8 | Modern performers , failing to appreciate the tremendous range of tempos covered by these dances [ minuets ] , are giving us the bottom half only . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | He says , ‘ You 've been giving me the wrong club all week . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And obviously Janet , you 'll be giving me the other one , so if you can take the time to look at it . |
| 14 | Along with TETRA we 'll be giving your the final five cards next month . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Who do you think was making the audience laugh while you were giving them the full force of your personality ? |
| 17 | And far from being envious , it is giving me the greatest pleasure . ’ |
| 18 | And from what she could see of him , which was not much , he was giving her the coldest of stares . |
| 19 | At 60,000 feet it was harder to tell which was giving me the better high : the puppy poo , the Beastie Boys album or the Cessna . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , that was because Lesley-Jane was giving me the wrong cues . |
| 21 | I know what profession she 's in , and no wonder that taxi driver was giving me the big smirk . |
| 22 | Now he s he thought he was giving me the same stuff , I did n't know what I was on , all I knew was I felt twice as bad . |
| 23 | On that morning I was giving them the latest news of Nigel . |
| 24 | He was all the more determined to appear in control because his father-in-law was giving him the half-amused , half-pitying look , which Hugh interpreted as ‘ I know you 're sorry you 've got to put up with me . |
| 25 | So , Himmler was giving him the same powers as he had given Max Radl for Operation Eagle . |
| 26 | 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 . |