Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] giving [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It just shows how much people take for granted in contemporary society where kissing has become as ordinary as a handshake and the media are constantly giving us the message that sex is only exciting if it is different or forbidden . |
| 2 | ‘ I am not giving her up . |
| 3 | First , the family are not giving him any legal ‘ threat ’ . |
| 4 | We are not giving them special instructions to sell into schools , and in the main it is run on a party plan approach . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You are not giving us a chance . |
| 6 | Try reading it , try reading it some time because what it says to the people of is , if you do n't like the level of services being provided by your Council , if you feel your Council are not giving you value for money , then we 're gon na give you the right to complain about it and do something . |
| 7 | but Julia said to me before she came round with Hayden she said er , cos her mum and dad are still there , not her mum and dad , her mum and step dad are still there , they 're only giving them forty pounds for nine weeks , forty pounds towards the mortgage like you know , been there since after Christmas and erm , anyway she said ooh she said , Steve said er , that 's her husband , said to me ooh is n't Emily well mannered she said , she does n't walk in the house , she waits in the doorstep you know |
| 8 | →Yeah , but you 're only giving us half the story . |
| 9 | Yeah , but you 're only giving us the |
| 10 | Well , we 've I would like we 're basically giving you all your cow requirement and all your oil requirement . |
| 11 | I said , ‘ Oh for Chris'sakes , shut up I know you 're trying to be nice to me and help me , but please do n't because you 're just giving me a headache . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Faithless is when they fall in love with someone else , not when they 're just giving them one . ’ |
| 13 | We 're just giving them tips to make them more relaxed . |
| 14 | So when you looked at in the in the exam , did you think , Oh , they 're not giving me enough information here , or There 's some trick I do n't know , or what did you think about it ? |
| 15 | You 're not giving me room to breath — I shall probably expire through suffocation . |
| 16 | It 's also worth stressing that these books are for real people , with real gardens : we 're not giving them pictures of Blenheim or Buckingham Palace . |
| 17 | Well I know you 're not giving them our biscuit but then we just get through . |
| 18 | You 're not giving him time off again , are you ? |
| 19 | They 're not giving us four hours are they ? |
| 20 | Now they 're not giving us the time to make . |
| 21 | I mean , then , they 're not giving us anything to . |
| 22 | but they 're not giving us any money , they c they wo n't take anything off you . |
| 23 | ‘ You 're not giving it up . |
| 24 | So you know he 's offered two per cent and they 're not giving it out to many people . |
| 25 | ‘ They 're not giving you any trouble ? ’ |
| 26 | And they 've just said , and and they 've said no they 're not giving you a reason or |
| 27 | They 're still giving me hassles that I 'm not British and they 're going to deport me . |
| 28 | Because , although it 's before nine erm , the next morning erm you 're actually giving them now more lead time , you 've given them another day because an , sometime tomorrow you know , if it gets there at two o'clock and it 's off-loading in in in at the bay and someone checks that it 's been received and then someone makes a phone call to tell them it 's there , and then they 're doing something else , and then they come down and have a look at it , how many boxes do you think are sitting on loading bays that do n't get looked at for a day or two , or three , or four , five when they 've had a next day service ? |
| 29 | Er our latest competition question for you , we are asking for you to identify the nationalities of these three riders , Rider A pretty good video er we 've er had a look in the office actually and er surprisingly enough it 's got through the censors and we 're actually giving it out as a prize . |
| 30 | They are both giving me dry , end-of-the-day stares . |