Example sentences of "giving [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what a difference a few days can make Saints crashed badly at home to Bradford Northern on the day when Doug Laughton 's men were giving arguably their best performance of the season in running up a convincing score against his old club Widnes . |
| 2 | But the hospice also wants to extend its service and is appealing for people to undertake regular giving so it can support more ill people and their families . |
| 3 | No , the problem was banks were giving away their commissions to investors as inducements to buy expensively-priced bonds , the result of new issues arranged by banks desperate to maintain market share . |
| 4 | Corporate funding , which rose to around £30m last year , has its part to play , irritating though it is when executives parade as great patrons while giving away their shareholders ' money . |
| 5 | Sir : Your otherwise sound leading article ( 'Private gifts for public arts ' , 11 October ) shot itself hypocritically in the foot in its last paragraph by expressing irritation with corporate executives who ‘ parade as great patrons while giving away their shareholders ’ money' . |
| 6 | It is important to interview people from different age-groups — but a lot of people do n't like giving away their age ! |
| 7 | Although she knew they were both wrong she could n't apportion blame to either of them , not yet , at any rate ; the only thing she knew at the moment was that what she had heard tied her to this house and the business as if she had signed a contract giving away her life . |
| 8 | They had had a farewell drink together , two women who had worked well together without ever abandoning their professional personae , Maria because she had been afraid of inadvertently giving away something that might alert Cavell 's suspicions where Luke was concerned . |
| 9 | Novell will be offering NetWare Lite , DR DOS 6 and Personal NetWare free to manufacturers ; Lotus will offer cc:Mail ; and Word Perfect will be giving away its suite of Office applications . |
| 10 | Her face was quite still behind the shrouding veil , giving away nothing . |
| 11 | You 're actually giving away nothing . |
| 12 | Rachel looked up sharply but his expression was inscrutable , giving away nothing of what he might be feeling . |
| 13 | Rachel glanced quickly at David , wondering if that statement was going to be the closest he came to admitting that the care of Jennifer should have been his responsibility and that he had opted out , but his expression remained impassive , giving away nothing of his feelings . |
| 14 | His expression was strangely shuttered , however , giving away nothing of the thoughts behind those grey eyes and the low , brooding brows . |
| 15 | I 'm glad I 'm grown-up now actually because er y'know it 's one of my great pleasures in life to wake up in the mornings and think great I 'm grown-up , I do n't have to go to school and er and I do n't have to live with my parents and er things are much better now than they were say sort of y'know twenty years ago or so , er giving away my age there . |
| 16 | Sometimes this will mean giving away your strongest leaders ; your most sacrificial givers ; your steadiest workers . |
| 17 | write it down , people here will be giving away your points , a character called Dandeanee whisper it or write it down so that people ca n't hear , that 's right . |
| 18 | Following his own desires and urges he lay on straw in his freezing barn , after giving away his bed , his decent clothes , and his sound shoes . |
| 19 | By publishing research , the scientist is in fact giving away his intellectual property , but if his paper influences others , they , in citing it , will ensure the future security of the original author 's ownership of that intellectual property . |
| 20 | She was worried about giving over her independence ; it was a token you know ? |
| 21 | Mozart 's place in history is due in part to the fact that his father recognised and nurtured his talent from an early age , virtually giving over his life in order to assist in the advancement of his son . |
| 22 | ’ I 'm sure you were giving off plenty of those , ’ I said bitterly . |
| 23 | As dusk fell they all piled back into the ‘ Blitz Buggy ’ and , with the track rod end still giving forth its loud protesting wail , drove down to where the torpedo boats were moored . |
| 24 | Tina Brown , editor of Vanity Fair , says , ‘ What no one really explained to women , as they went out on their feminist forays , was that they were giving up something . |
| 25 | When some boys at the school put excrement under the headmaster 's chair , he contrasted the culprits unfavourably with true school sportsmen : ‘ Last Friday I was feeling pretty low when I found out about this lot … but then I went to football on Saturday , there were several lads and teachers there , playing their hearts out or giving up their time just for the school , and then I thought , ‘ Perhaps , it 's not so bad after all . ’ |
| 26 | The event also required school teachers giving up their own time for youngsters . |
| 27 | How will you go about lavishly praising people for giving up their time to attend the meeting ? |
| 28 | Other strategies which recognise the new sense and the new possibilities are the wildlife/domestic stock village systems developing in Central Africa — systems not dissimilar to the self-sufficient , low-input philosophy that Gandhi was promoting before India became a monolithic Civil Service with centralised control which destroyed village integrity : the same problem that has caused thousands of Africans to return to their villages in the last twenty years , giving up their Government jobs for which they were never paid or even got their rations . |
| 29 | For their part any incomers see themselves as having made considerable sacrifices to come to Shetland , giving up their homes in the south near friends and perhaps relatives , and facing the possibility that while they are away inflation will ensure that they can not afford to buy their old houses back again when they return ( hence the price guarantees that the airlines are obliged to offer on their employees ' houses in Shetland ) . |
| 30 | Someone who is giving up their former marital home because of divorce or bereavement will probably be anxious not to sacrifice too greatly the lifestyle they enjoyed before . |