Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [be] give [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 I know what profession she 's in , and no wonder that taxi driver was giving me the big smirk .
2 Ford , 20 , is technically on loan from Rotherham until the end of the season , but the Millmoor club are giving him a free transfer .
3 Midnight Cowboy was to give him his first chance in over fifteen years to regain respect in the business .
4 Pious it may sound , but I do actually believe that there is a sense in which a group of students do collectively know much of what they need to know about learning : the problem of the PGCE year is to give them confidence that they know ; and the experience that knowing they can successfully act on their knowledge .
5 The power steering pump is giving me problems .
6 Similarly , our analysis of how time was used across the curriculum provoked further challenges to conventional assumptions : that the way to do a subject justice is to give it more time ; and that ‘ balance ’ is about the proportions of time given to the various subjects .
7 Our new customer tracking system is giving us detailed information on customer tracking flows and purchasing bands and as a result we 're refining staff working arrangements in all stores with a clear objective of increasing sales and improving customer service .
8 The resolve had held , but the orange juice was giving him stomach ache .
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