Example sentences of "have been giving " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This magazine has been giving me a hard time . |
| 2 | Life with Mary Top eventer Mary Thomson describes the work she has been giving her horses . |
| 3 | One might have hoped for silence from Diana Mosley but now she has been giving us the benefit of her experience on the subject of sexual politics : ‘ There are quite as many henpecked husbands in the world as there are battered wives , something feminists fail to notice . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Geoff has been giving me a lot of help , having a look at my action and making a few minor adjustments . |
| 5 | Elton has been giving away royalties from singles including his hit , Sacrifice and his duet with George Michael , Please Do n't Let the Sun Go Down On Me . |
| 6 | However , it is encouraging that the University 's Guild of Graduates has been giving serious consideration to the future development of higher education in the Principality , including advanced further education . |
| 7 | ‘ And that 's why that damned woman has been giving me such strange knowing looks ! |
| 8 | ‘ Because if you do n't , ’ said Owen , ‘ I shall let it be generally known that Andrus has been giving money to the Moslems for them to use against Copts . ’ |
| 9 | Your Lordships will be aware that the Government has been giving careful consideration to the issue of whether B R should be a franchisee in the light of the noble lord Lord Paignton 's amendment , agreed at committee stage . |
| 10 | The army has been giving would-be soldiers the chance to get some hands on experience of military equipment . |
| 11 | A woman who tried to take over Swindon Town Football Club has been giving evidence against the former manager Lou Macari , who 's on trial for tax fraud . |
| 12 | Ardilles has been giving evidence in the trial of his predecessor , Lou Macari , who denies conspiring to defraud the Inland Revenue . |
| 13 | VAUXHALL has been giving more details of changes and additions to its range for the sales year . |
| 14 | Even some of the most loyal Tory MPs would not dispute Mr Lamont 's claim that the government has been giving the impression of being in office , but not in power . |
| 15 | Sarah Smith has been giving a regular class to stroke victims at the Oak Park Stroke Club in Havant . |
| 16 | I said my wife has been giving me two and three bits every day thinking you 're having one of them . |
| 17 | One of the people he 's conning is Sir Epicure Manhom who wants a life of ease and luxury and has been giving the alchemist loads of money in order to tu to , to perfect this and funny enough the alchemist has n't managed , has n't managed to do this , to get the person 's money . |
| 18 | Neil Kinnock has been giving a major speech to the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool this afternoon . |
| 19 | But er , I was giving this er I 'd been giving it a stroke , and er it 's sort of dying to be fussed , but I do n't think they give it any attention across there . |
| 20 | Well I mean I , apparently he 'd been giving this , this guy stick like all day . |
| 21 | You will probably have been giving your elderly parent emotional support all the way through the anxiety of her husband 's terminal illness , unless his death was sudden and unexpected . |
| 22 | She must have been giving him instructions to find out where I was last night . |
| 23 | He could have been giving a traffic broadcast . |
| 24 | When I lived right on the job it used to drive my wife round the bend — I 'd be at home on a weekend , perhaps in the garden , and I 'd think about something in the greenhouse across the road so I 'd go over there and disappear for an hour whereas perhaps I should have been giving more time to my family . |
| 25 | well I 've given many , many different answers here , I could have been here all day , giving you just between point five and point six , and you 'd have been giving one as the answer every time . |
| 26 | He might have been giving an apple to a horse . |
| 27 | Just at the time when they should have been giving most to each other , he had turned away from her , and in its way that had been almost as painful as the loss of her mother . |
| 28 | According to my reckoning , I should have been giving my full and entire concentration to the final chapter of my work — a time when I would not , as Milada Pankracova knew , want any interruptions . |
| 29 | ‘ At the moment the big givers appear to have been giving more and the smaller ones less , ’ Fountain says . |
| 30 | Alex Household had been excellent in the part , but , in retrospect , he seemed to have been giving an actor 's interpretation of a man fifteen years older than himself . |