Example sentences of "and giving [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something at the back of his mind was pushing its way to the front and giving him a curious grey feeling . |
| 2 | Thanking Donal for his kindness , and giving him a friendly hug , she dutifully took the road he indicated — and then Ellie , being Ellie , decided would n't it be nice just to have a peek at the Wicklow mountains ? |
| 3 | Dad was flaring his nostrils and giving him a wild stare . |
| 4 | By evading him earlier that morning she 'd played into his hands , at the same time both increasing his suspicions and giving him the best part of the day to allay them . |
| 5 | She stopped in front of him , leaning forward confidentially and giving him the full benefit of the satin décolletage . |
| 6 | Whereas , taking him taking one guy a week for a week , is putting no-one in jeopardy and giving somebody a decent wage for a week . |
| 7 | He was listening to old Legion marching songs and giving himself the Nazi salute in the mirror . |
| 8 | Being the only Leeds fan in a London inner city school with Alan Clarks famous speach about bring Success to Leeds in 3 Years , is causing me to go into cold shivers and giving me a pessimistic mood about the new season , I can still remember the years of telling school friends at the end of each season that we are rebuilding and that we would come up the next season . |
| 9 | On winged feet Virginia was beside her , slipping her arm beneath Lucy 's and round the other girl 's back , and giving her a reassuring hug , ‘ Come on , come and lie down in my room ; I 'll ring Dr Newne … ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Where did you think I was going ? ’ he asked , turning her around and giving her a little push . |
| 11 | And I remember running into the ward where I had been treated , finding one of the nurses who had looked after me and giving her a big hug and her crying . |
| 12 | No one not in the profession would know for sure whether the assassin had accepted or refused the job ; and no one except the contact and , in this case , the client , would know for sure exactly who was responsible for the messy death of Seren Haminh , probably about fifty hours from now , when the hunger would be rising again and giving her a few hours to sleep the first ecstasy off . |
| 13 | That was when they all realized acting like this was only playing into the hands of the authorities and giving them a real basis for enforcing their petty laws . |
| 14 | and giving them a good pull . |
| 15 | It has been found that taking them away from the contamination and giving them a healthy diet for a month can boost their damaged immune systems for up to 18 months . |
| 16 | explained : ‘ In general it is down to having good management — knowing how to push people and giving them a clear context to work within . |
| 17 | ‘ We are really building up a European company , through common systems , by giving people a common language , and giving them a common experience . ’ |
| 18 | LIFESPAN records the fact that this assertion has been made by changing any development versions of modules in a package ( including the package module itself ) to approved versions and giving them a non-development issue number , such as 2.3 from 2.3C . |
| 19 | We will concentrate on styling and giving them a different driving feel . |
| 20 | Mr Bevan said Allen hired the two youths by promising them £100 and giving them an extra £10 to buy petrol . |
| 21 | The key issues for the future of the Association are sustaining the number of voluntary welfare workers and their helpers and giving them the financial and other support they need to deal with both increasing and more complex welfare needs . |
| 22 | But , crucially , Zurich backed up its service by appointing international business managers in all its main markets and giving them the right staff and resources , not least information . |
| 23 | Suppose your neighbour 's tree grows into your garden , obscuring your light and giving you a harmful consumption externality . |
| 24 | I think that 's what Priest , I mean I do n't know , Priest probably has a whole history of how he got is Esquire style , but Vincent went over there and had something to do with it , and I really think that taking the old style stuff and giving it a new spin helped , and the difference between what we 're doing and what the California crowd was doing — and this was also the time of punk rock — was that we were using traditional typefaces and they were |
| 25 | Have you ever watched seasoned knitted diving into cartons of yarn , coming up with a cone and giving it a good sniff ? |
| 26 | So I settled for dusting off his shoulder and giving it a quick squeeze . |
| 27 | After gingerly retrieving his whistle from the offending item and giving it a quick clean-up , McNally was immediately called on to blow it when he awarded a drop goal after a free-kick . |
| 28 | The ‘ keys ’ or trigger features required to ‘ unlock ’ these two types of cell are rather simple — it is just a matter of applying a small stimulus in the right place , and giving it the correct sign , an increase for one and a decrease for the other . |