Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says yes if you 're paying me a week 's wages and I says I ca n't do that . |
| 2 | He claimed she retaliated by turning the children against him and threatening to kill him , at one point sending him a Valentine 's Day card with skewers and a knife stuck in it . |
| 3 | You are giving me a look ai n't you babe ? |
| 4 | Are you giving me a month 's supply ? |
| 5 | Adrian , who professes to prefer football to cricket , will certainly be paying more attention to the game from now on , particularly as we are giving him a year 's membership to the Young Cricketer Bunbury as our Young Cricketer of the Month . |
| 6 | He talked on , giving her a driver 's run-down , and she narrowed her attention span to concentrate exactly on his words . |
| 7 | They 're specially chosen for summer drinking , when you feel like giving yourselves a connoisseur 's treat . |
| 8 | Ascertaining what a company 's order-winning criteria are should , it seems , be primarily a marketing task , although , depending upon the nature of the product and industry , there may also be a significant role for manufacturing-development engineers . |