Example sentences of "just giving " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet he showed a certain reluctance to touch her , just giving her a few social kisses , one or two , on meeting or parting . |
| 2 | Rather than just giving a ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ to a carefully put question from the interviewer the informant can control much more the direction of the discussion and can therefore decide what is or is not relevant to a particular situation . |
| 3 | Tony said he would not allow himself to get into the same state and that he would talk to someone about how he was feeling , probably his father or even his mother , and that he would try to do something active about his problems , rather than just giving up . |
| 4 | I am just giving priority to those who were most instrumental in shaping my life and my general outlook in all matters appertaining to living . |
| 5 | This is just giving in to your Ego , which loves to play ‘ Ai n't I awful ! ’ |
| 6 | If the frame appears to be in reasonably good condition , you may find that you work wonders by just giving it a proper clean . |
| 7 | Lady Helen Taylor , daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Kent , who is just giving up her job as a Soho art dealer , and her husband , West End art dealer Tim Taylor , have traded in their black 10-year-old Porsche sportscar for a K-registered £27,500 family-sized black Range Rover . |
| 8 | The end point can vary between the parent just giving in for a peaceful life , the whole event fizzling out with the child still not having done what was asked or the parent having smacked the child and walked away . |
| 9 | Because these theories stressed social structural features such as inequality of opportunity , proposing cures involved entering into political debate , endangering the theorists ' stance as objective scientists ‘ just giving the facts ’ . |
| 10 | There 's another item of news , which erm , er Ron only got on the sixteenth August and it 's about the pre-congress pensioner 's march and rally , now the congress is held in Glasgow , so I think we were n't going to that one anyway , but it just giving details of erm the arrangements for the pensioner 's march which we usually have , we usually attend if it 's in the South anywhere , but that 's just for information . |
| 11 | Such explanations are highly disembedded , and , like other aspects of disembedded thinking , they are of considerable educational significance , since they provide a means of checking that pupils actually understand what they are doing , and not just giving correct answers through chance , imitation , or rote learning . |
| 12 | Flesh against flesh , just giving comfort and pleasure at first . |
| 13 | " I 'm just giving you a friendly warning . |
| 14 | But the point is at the end of the day they 've got to be approached in a just giving them a bit of paper |
| 15 | you 're not just giving it just to James . |
| 16 | It was absolutely no good just giving them a sketch and expecting them to expand on it using their own initiative . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | Well I can I can see lots of people just giving up hope and thinking , there 's no way that we 're going to get any better . |
| 19 | ‘ Faithless is when they fall in love with someone else , not when they 're just giving them one . ’ |
| 20 | It means ‘ to give a bit more ’ and reflects the love that Creole and Cajun people have for their cuisine , but it can refer to a helping of food , a cookery tip , or even just giving more care and attention to an everyday dish . |
| 21 | I 'm just giving you a chance to tell us , that 's all . |
| 22 | Because come somebody saying , and just giving me them , I had to go through them all . |
| 23 | ‘ I do feel that financial managers have done themselves a disservice by just giving the numbers — you have to stop , take the managers through them and be an integral part of the operation . ’ |
| 24 | Not just giving radio sets to bank clerks , they were giving bank accounts to politicians . |
| 25 | I 'm just giving you a spread sheet and this blank page and |
| 26 | Betting against yourself is an each way bet , you 're just giving money to the bookie . |
| 27 | Obviously all of this detail I explain to you here I 'm just giving you a brief overview it 'll be explained a lot more on the training course . |
| 28 | And and I I would think I 'm just thinking of freebies that just giving them something , and yet if they 've actually watched something being made and then |
| 29 | We 're just giving them tips to make them more relaxed . |
| 30 | Well look at the proper programmes , that 's just giving the films ! |