Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sorry for giving you a hard time there . |
| 2 | People can be very shy about giving compliments . |
| 3 | Their expertise lies in enabling others and others to take advantage of arts facilities and helping them erm or working with them to produce the things that happen , for example all the erm posters which were up during last years festival erm were produced in conjunction with community arts which erm has erm er produced on Ditchfern Place , erm and earlier this morning I was thinking that up as I think other councillors did , that more serious of projects which community arts are now entering into er in Chesterton in particularly in the children erm I think councillors went to Dickfield women 's photograph project and it is things like that about giving people confidence to join arts in a way erm with which they might never otherwise have experienced and the community arts have taken just that . |
| 4 | Laing rejects the view held by some people that managers from major corporations are unsuitable for giving advice to small firms because they live in two different worlds . |
| 5 | The news is also terrific for giving the boys a window on the world . |
| 6 | Do not feel guilty about giving yourself a little time off occasionally like this . |
| 7 | It 's very common for a women to be depressed after giving birth : if on top of that the parent 's hopes are dashed , and life seems desperately fraught because they have a handicapped child , it 's absolute hell . ’ |
| 8 | From time to time he brought them small presents of coffee and sugar , although he was always slightly shy and embarrassed about giving them . |
| 9 | IF YOU buy air tickets by telephone , be very careful about giving your credit card number . |
| 10 | Elderly people in particular should be very careful about giving away too many details about their circumstances , since the knocker boys have proved they have no qualms about who they con . ’ |
| 11 | He was puzzled , and she knew she had better be very careful about giving lectures on health to the customers . |
| 12 | Speaking as someone with a job I 've got to be very careful about giving advice to people who are in a much worse situation than myself , but from the research we did erm it is clear that it 's very important erm not just to sink in and dwell on your problems , not just to erm stay at home , not meeting other people , not engaging in activities . |
| 13 | Wood chip papers are the most popular for giving a light ‘ oatmealy ’ texture for a very cheap price . |
| 14 | The clause was criticized by some as giving implicit authority to the army to stage further coups should they be deemed necessary . |
| 15 | Average fluid transport was 48 and -15 ( secretion ) µl.min - 1 .100 cm - 2 after giving hexamethonium ( n=11 ) and lidocaine ( n=8 ) , respectively . |
| 16 | A third key element of a neuron 's computing power is its modifiability , and I shall consider this after giving examples of trigger feature and projective zone . |
| 17 | Though Sam was the younger of the two , he was not afraid of giving Carl a hard kick on the tochas ( arse ) if he had stepped out of line . |
| 18 | She discovered that she was afraid of getting close , afraid of being betrayed , afraid of finding that a relationship did not solve all her problems , afraid of feeling trapped , afraid of ‘ disappearing ’ as a person , afraid of admitting that men were not all bad , afraid of losing her friends , afraid of having no more goals in life , afraid of giving up her unhappiness , afraid he might die , afraid of feeling dependent , afraid of sexual intimacy , afraid of letting go of the past , afraid that reality would not match up to the glorious fantasy … . |
| 19 | She was becoming increasingly afraid of giving herself away . |
| 20 | Is it any different from giving up a liberty to smoke ? |
| 21 | The local authority exercising its parental responsibility would certainly have to consider very carefully whether it accepted that practitioner 's advice and any advice as to the risks of the transfer of J. from one hospital to another before giving its consent to such different treatment . |
| 22 | The only problem with the job was that I had to work on a lot of Saturdays , which naturally interfered with my athletics , though the company were quite generous in giving me time off . |
| 23 | He has been most generous in giving way . |
| 24 | At all times generous in giving help and wise counsel when sought , it was with great modesty that he proffered opinion or advice . |
| 25 | Like Dorothy Heathcote , he is interested in giving children an educational opportunity . |
| 26 | I 'm only interested in giving . |
| 27 | I think government ought to be interested in giving money to the arts . |
| 28 | They rate their performance as a lot better than average and are particularly interested in giving as well as receiving pleasure . |
| 29 | In all my letters I said I was interested in giving oral sex . |
| 30 | It has , however , come to represent the ‘ norm ’ in technical writing to such a degree that , even if a writer was not particularly interested in giving an impression of objectivity , s/he would find it difficult to break away from the convention of using predominantly passive structures in technical writing . |