Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] giving " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We were literally giving the stuff away just to get people to use it , ’ said Mr Anderson . |
| 2 | no , but the spiders , I remember that one that got , was on the daddy-longlegs and he was just sitting there and he would n't move and no one would walk down the stairs , so we were just giving it pouf pouf and all throwing things at him trying to get him to go . |
| 3 | To the Great House accordingly they went , to sit the full half hour in the oldfashioned square parlour , with a small carpet and a shining floor , to which the present daughters of the house were gradually giving the proper air of confusion by a grand piano forte and a harp , flower-stands and little tables placed in every direction . |
| 4 | But the chance survival of a record of a miracle on Easter Day not long before Lanfranc 's arrival shows that the monks were still giving a dramatic representation of the three women at the tomb searching for the risen Lord as laid down in the Regularis Concordia . |
| 5 | At that time both parties were clearly giving top priority to defence . |
| 6 | Most houses simply refused to buy any grapes , even though the growers were practically giving them away . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Clearly the movies now felt that they could look the reformers of the early twentieth century firmly in the eye and the film-industry boosters were now giving back as good as they were given . |
| 9 | The cheapest rate I came across was right down at the southern tip of the country where Invercargill 's Southland Aero Club were virtually giving a Tomahawk away for NZ$80 per hour solo ( £24.25 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ For some reason rooms were discounted from low-season rate to the point where we were virtually giving them away in a definite shoulder season . |
| 11 | The parents were therefore giving a reward contingent upon Joanne 's production of the undesirable behaviours . |
| 12 | Paschal II , who was slowly giving way on the question of homage , which Anselm looked on as settled , sweetened the pill by piecemeal concessions on the primacy . |
| 13 | Erm so I c I could n't buy any of what you were telling me and it 's all like a , it was all a smokescreen I was putting up , the accountant , basically I , I was not erm buying anything er and the compressed funding was just blowing my mind because I could n't understa er it was basically giving me an easy option to say I do n't need to do anything cos I can compress my funding at forty five wo n't I , when my business has taken off . |
| 14 | I was only giving you an example . |
| 15 | Law was only giving credit where due when he said that these two groups ‘ have from the first been the main-props of the new National Free Church movement ’ . |
| 16 | Brando said , ‘ Why , you sonofabitch , ’ and I said , ‘ Well , up yours too , pal , ’ and then he was suddenly giving me all of it , and I could do no wrong . |
| 17 | Her Higher Self was literally giving her a ‘ kick up the backside ’ , encouraging her to move in any direction , but to move ! |
| 18 | erm fucking indoor murder ball , the seat , cushion and stuff like that , its fucking well out of order piss up games oh that 's right I think we played in , I think we played , you know that British bull dog thing ? , we managed to clear all the fucking the nappy chair this and the chairs out the way , we were playing this British bull dog sort of thing and the only thing , the only , the only difference was when you got caught , got , everybody was fucking giving you a few thumps in the arm , for good measure like , and we played about four of this and every time this cocky little son of a bitch did n't get caught , he was always the last person , so we fucking said , we said , me and this other guy 's that are in our troop and that er , we said right we 'll get him , so when , when everybody sort of go for it right just after the one person in the middle , said fucking just get this guy and fucking pin him down and do something to him right , we did n't , I think we said we 'd just get him , yeah that 's a good idea , so he 's gone right go and his mate he 's fucking took off two steps and there 's eight of us fucking dived on top of him , what the fucking , he 's struggling , get off you cunt so we pinned him down and at first we was just going to de-bag him in front of the women , we 've taken his boots off and his trousers and that and shave his bollocks , yeah the whole fucking yeah , it was like an audience , all that they sort of gathered up the chairs and the tables fuck have his bollocks shaved . |
| 19 | The weight of the matching necklace was already giving her a headache . |
| 20 | I was already giving it my support with diet and positive thinking ; now I would add an overwhelming direct frontal assault with thorough , serious visualization . |
| 21 | Melanie was worried that this would upset Stan , but he was already giving clear signs that he just wanted to avoid conflict . |
| 22 | They watched their mum making suet dumplings for the stew which , in the iron cauldron on the hob above the glowing range fire , was already giving off an aroma that was a delight to anyone 's nose on a winter evening . |
| 23 | It was evident that in neither the ECSC nor EDC could the supranational agencies have powers commensurate with their responsibilities : the ECSC was already giving indications of the resilience of national governments . |
| 24 | Distraught Sandra was yesterday giving police descriptions of the men . |
| 25 | ‘ You liked her because she was always giving you things , ’ Ruth accused her sister . |
| 26 | I was always giving secret funerals to dead birds . |
| 27 | ‘ Peter was always giving me encouragement , ’ Russell recalls . |
| 28 | She was always giving orders to Kamala , who had to obey . |
| 29 | Joe ran to the kitchen , and was still giving Mary the order when his mother appeared in the doorway , saying , ‘ What is it ? ’ |
| 30 | Lanfranc himself was only partly converted , and , even in his last days , he was still giving quantities of the bodies of his predecessors , which had filled the old church before the fire of 1067 , to his new foundation of canons outside the walls of the city . |