Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] give [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His Quaker wife , the famous prison reformer Elizabeth Fry , felt members of her own family were also giving him the cold shoulder when they heard he was being ‘ investigated ’ by the Ratcliff and Barking monthly meeting . |
| 2 | Morris suddenly felt tired ; the doctored wine was not giving him the uplift he needed . |
| 3 | Robinson was still giving him the low-down on life in Whitely when the key rattled in the door again and it opened to admit Rod Porter . |
| 4 | Were were would you suggest that they have a lot of unresolved feelings about that , or maybe they had emotional scars because no-one was there to give them the kind of hope that might be available now ? |
| 5 | Its ears were erect and it was evidently giving them the full attention of sight , smell and hearing . |