Example sentences of "giving [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are just plain difficult and like giving everyone a bad time . |
| 2 | Tea and biscuits end the afternoon session giving everyone a chance to rest . |
| 3 | He followed this up by giving everyone a present . |
| 4 | It was giving everyone a lot of pleasure . |
| 5 | ‘ Are you sure ? ’ they ask without fail , regardless of whether you are offering help or an invitation to lunch , giving them a cup of tea or paying their bus fare . |
| 6 | The money from the sale of the products is put into a trust fund , so that when the youngsters leave at the age of sixteen to make their own way in the world they have the means to purchase a flock of sheep or a horse and cart , giving them a vital start in whatever activity they take up . |
| 7 | As Debord has commented : ‘ This society signs a peace treaty with its most outspoken enemies by giving them a spot in the spectacle . ' |
| 8 | The action was called after a row between ambulance staff and Mrs Virginia Bottomley , the Health Minister of State , at her South-west Surrey constituency last Friday over her refusal to recognise ambulance workers as the third arm of the emergency services giving them a pay formula automatically tied to the police and fire fighters . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | A recent revival of enthusiasm for Gaelic among both lots of people is giving them a rare common interest . |
| 11 | Sometimes they would read our palms , finishing by giving them a little scratch that signified they were available — one scratch twenty douros , two scratches fifty douros and so on up the scale from an ‘ in and out ’ in the toilets or a ‘ short time ’ in a back room to a whole night in the brothel , with champagne and bath . |
| 12 | M. longifolia 's leaves are long and narrow , prickly teeth giving them a suspiciously thistle-like appearance until acanthus-like flower spikes appear in June . |
| 13 | Then Vera Volkova , the Russian teacher who had been influential in England , taught the Royal Danes for 25 years , changing their style and giving them a more modern technique . |
| 14 | FRANCE pursues a single-minded policy to promote families by giving them a large tax deduction for each child , in addition to an allowance for mothers who stay at home . |
| 15 | They teased teachers by dropping books near them , giving them a fright . |
| 16 | Three legs , oh aye ! smirked Moira Law , giving them a coy wink . |
| 17 | Whether or not Orpheus was an angler , I do n't know , but I do know that when all else fails , giving them a song always works . |
| 18 | Modern technology has seen to that , giving them a machine to make their early morning tea and even an electronic handset to save them having to get out of their chairs in the evening to change the television channel . |
| 19 | So much can be conveyed by putting your arms around someone 's shoulders or giving them a kiss . |
| 20 | Today they are being rewired and repainted in a new livery , giving them a handsome appearance which belies their fifty years . |
| 21 | On the other hand ( see page 46 ) reasoning with children involves giving them a great deal of attention which might reinforce and maintain , if not increase , the quarrelsomeness . |
| 22 | By moving out of the way , we 'll be giving them a clear run . |
| 23 | Doctors can convince trusting patients that they will get better even while giving them a course of pills which consist of little more than sugar and water . |
| 24 | The reforms which might be expected from this theoretical starting-point are moves towards market mechanisms or some surrogate for them which can be used both to influence the behaviour of bureaucrats by giving them a different set of incentives , and to increase the range of choice available to the consumers of public — in this case particularly local government — services . |
| 25 | Lectures feed learners with information , giving them a feeling of security because they have notes which they may then be able to regurgitate when answering a theoretical question . |
| 26 | With five minutes to go , it looked like a Haslemere win , but an error in the lineout call resulted in a Mariners try which was converted , giving them a 22–13 lead . |
| 27 | We will concentrate on styling and giving them a different driving feel . |
| 28 | These clever little yellow and black-banded caterpillars actually store the alkaloids in their own bodies , giving them a bad and poisonous taste to any would-be predator . |
| 29 | It has been estimated that in the years 1877–1904 70 per cent of Pomeranian farmland was held in large estates and only 30 per cent in peasant smallholdings of various kinds : about two-thirds of Pomeranian farmers were smallholders living in the most appalling poverty ; their assets were non-existent or too small for them to think of trekking westwards to look for factory work ; they were too poor to pay cash for their land , and too impoverished for any bank to risk giving them a loan . |
| 30 | For six years up to the war , they had raised millions to help their German cousins and had absorbed over 60,000 refugees , not all of them living off charity by any means , but with the great majority owing thanks to Jewish organisations for giving them a new start . |