Example sentences of "[be] give [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This takes place in late November and on two separate evenings we fill our largest lecture theatre with local school children from both sides of the county , sometimes a little bit further afield , and that means that we 're giving them an illustrated lecture by one of our more distinguished colleagues , and we entertain and inform , I think , something like eight hundred school children every year in that alone . |
| 3 | You 're giving them the perfect opportunity to cut in again . ’ |
| 4 | Erm we 're giving them the appropriate and suitable skills to be able to do their job . |
| 5 | You 're giving him a tough time , it 's not fair to make it tougher . |
| 6 | ‘ They 're giving us the extra points ! |
| 7 | The gauntlet was down , the opportunity to talk to arrange a forum , to come together , land owners , local authorities , the hunt 's people , er the interested parties , to come together and look for a decent way of hunting and that way is probably drag hunting and we 're giving you a golden opportunity to start that route . |
| 8 | er to make sure that we 're giving you the right platform to earn money to keep all of your er aspects going . |
| 9 | The cumulative effect of the language of the British inner city has been to give it a contradictory definition , as a conceptual space both inside and outside of society . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Let herself go a bit — ye get that with women whose men are giving them a hard time , and who hav'na found a way of getting their retaliation in first . ’ |
| 12 | And at only 70 calories per generous serving of plain boiled rice , you know you are giving them the healthy option . |
| 13 | Ford , 20 , is technically on loan from Rotherham until the end of the season , but the Millmoor club are giving him a free transfer . |
| 14 | While your friends are giving you a hard time at present if you persist and refuse to indulge in drug taking they should eventually accept you as a non-user . |
| 15 | to see which ones are giving you the good profits , sort of thing . |
| 16 | In supporting our own active participation in , and control over our own affairs , such people are giving us the right kind of help . |
| 17 | Modern performers , failing to appreciate the tremendous range of tempos covered by these dances [ minuets ] , are giving us the bottom half only . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | I am afraid I am giving you a great deal of trouble . ’ |
| 20 | The laughter had stopped a while ago and , ever since , Lydia 's imagination had been giving her a hard time . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 22 | " Apparently some of the younger fellows in the Owsla have been giving him a thin time — teasing him about his fur , you know , and saying he only got his place because of the Threarah . |
| 23 | Pilger had been giving him a hard time . |
| 24 | The man had a faint discoloration under one eye — he could n't help speculating whether Dotty had n't been giving him a hard time . |
| 25 | ‘ This magazine has been giving me a hard time . |
| 26 | He says , ‘ You 've been giving me the wrong club all week . ’ |
| 27 | He argued he had been giving them a practical demonstration of his work as a ‘ psycho-sexual ’ counsellor and doctor . |
| 28 | ‘ Luke been giving you a hard time ? ’ |
| 29 | I 've been giving it a great deal of thought myself in recent weeks . |
| 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 . |