Example sentences of "had [be] giving [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently there 'd been this girl , Spanish or Portuguese I think , and Ollie had been giving her private lessons at his flat , and he thought she fancied him , and he 'd had a couple of Special Brews at the time and thought she was just shy , and then he tried kissing her , and it 's the old , old , sordid story , is n't it ? |
| 2 | Ace had been giving her conflicting messages ever since the first time they 'd met again outside her bedroom door in France . |
| 3 | Presumably Mr Malik had been giving her tutorials . |
| 4 | It was absolutely delicious and a welcome change from the meat Marcus had been giving me lately . |
| 5 | The laughter had stopped a while ago and , ever since , Lydia 's imagination had been giving her a hard time . |
| 6 | She got a , I think she got a bit of a shock you know she actually probably thought she was better than she was and a lot of people had been giving her a lot of pats on the back and I tell you where half of that emanated from was down the corridor . |
| 7 | Pilger had been giving him a hard time . |
| 8 | He sat on a huge leather chair with a sigh of relief and it was clear to Hari that his leg had been giving him trouble . |
| 9 | He hoped that I could undertake something in that line , especially in relation to Italy : for I had been giving him my impressions of the visit to Rome , which included encountering at close quarters , Mussolini , Count Ciano , and Edda his wife , and the by comparison rather puny Neville Chamberlain . |
| 10 | Ven swiftly reassured her , and — even while it was dawning on her how he was accepting her ‘ no ’ without question when she had been giving him a ‘ yes , yes , yes ’ for the past five minutes , he was reaching for her wrap . |
| 11 | Mr Goldring said the accused had been giving him his grandmother 's tablets . |
| 12 | It was the directions that I had been giving them that I now began to consider . |
| 13 | He argued he had been giving them a practical demonstration of his work as a ‘ psycho-sexual ’ counsellor and doctor . |
| 14 | Which meant that he had been giving it considerable quiet thought . |