Example sentences of "in giving [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A female friend of mine used a particularly effective trick for discouraging men who persisted in giving her the eye on trains or buses . |
| 2 | ‘ Wherever she goes , she carries the banner of her state 's claim to Ulster , and I do n't believe this council should play any part in giving her a platform . ’ |
| 3 | But the love that surrounds that boy is having a marvellous effect in giving him a life . |
| 4 | They asked if he was cheating and decided that if he was able to do his work so well , there was no harm in giving him some more . |
| 5 | We say that he has done enough damage in bringing about the birth of this child , in giving him a father who does not know he is his father , a mother who is so ice-cold a scientist that she willingly abandons her own child to the researcher in the laboratory , where he will inevitably be regarded in the same light as any other laboratory animal . |
| 6 | For if they vote with John Major next Wednesday , they will have played a crucial part in giving him a fresh mandate to break his election promises . ’ |
| 7 | The plaintiff sued the defendants for breach of contract to exercise due care in giving him financial advice . |
| 8 | Hewas so considerate when she lost the baby a year later , overlooking that she had failed in giving him what the nurse reluctantly told her would have been a son . |
| 9 | Finally , again as mentioned above , a lessee sometimes holds a share in the management company responsible for the maintenance of the building and grounds , which is an advantage to him or her in giving him or her a say in these important matters . |
| 10 | The only problem with the job was that I had to work on a lot of Saturdays , which naturally interfered with my athletics , though the company were quite generous in giving me time off . |
| 11 | The Bölkow 207 is fitted with toe-operated rubber pedals on the P1 position only , so Nigel was being very trusting in giving me the only set of brakes . |
| 12 | Although welcoming my friend 's generosity in giving me a pair , I did not want to mate brother and sister if possible especially as these were already young from a brother and sister pairing , so I did not intend to use the young male unless I could find an unrelated mate for him . |
| 13 | But I was afraid they would shoot at me again , and anyway I was grateful for their kindness in giving me food and drink , so I did not move . |
| 14 | Quite a number of the students knew no English when they arrived , and the first year was spent in giving them a working knowledge . |
| 15 | At her memorial service , co-workers and students both young and mature thanked Jo for her generosity in giving them her time until she died . |
| 16 | I did n't kill him and to was no point in giving them any more to gossip about . ’ |
| 17 | In offering them something and being positive , not judgemental , in giving them support and a belief in the visual medium and the fact that they can participate in it freely . ’ |
| 18 | It may be possible to distract a horse in some other way than in giving it food , so that it tolerates being shod . |
| 19 | One religious who responded to God 's calling to celibacy explained : ‘ Chastity does not consist of deadening our heart but rather in giving it a liberty of love , a single aim , a transparency to God . |
| 20 | It was puny and small , for all the anguish in giving it birth . |
| 21 | Now if we consult this record , and remember the success , in giving it its modern form , of a gallery of reformers of roughly utilitarian hue from Tom Paine , Bentham , J.S. Mill , and Tolstoy , to Bernard Shaw , Sidney and Beatrice Webb , and Evelyn Strachey , we might wonder why its provisions for animals do not embody more closely the ideals of that theory . |
| 22 | Though the hall 's notoriously unhelpful acoustic is reflected in the relatively dry sound , the Teldec engineers have done wonders in giving it not only a fair bloom but in conveying an extreme dynamic range . |
| 23 | But he thought there was advantage in giving it an opportunity to do so . |
| 24 | In spite of its brilliant career , the society 's delay in giving it an award of merit and a first-class certificate indicates unusual prudence , for ‘ the Château Yquem of apples ’ , as E. A. Bunyard described it in 1929 , did not receive these confirmations of its quality until 1962 . |
| 25 | Knowing , for example , where you will be sitting , or standing , the lay out of the audience and whether you will have a microphone all help in giving you confidence that you are fully prepared . |
| 26 | Well thank you John for that very interesting talk , and perhaps the members of Probus would join me in giving you that |
| 27 | Had I an opportunity I should have great pleasure in giving you a few hints on this subject which might not be useless . |
| 28 | As Deputy Leader of the Labour Group in Europe , I look after liaison between our group , the Parliamentary Labour Party , the T U C and individual trade unions , but I can say in all honesty that the individuals just listed play a very important role in giving you access to the possibilities which exist to further your aims in Europe . |
| 29 | The father is known only to myself and the computer , and none of the young men who cooperated in giving us specimens of their sperm knew for what purpose it was given . |
| 30 | ‘ With her background , we felt that Mrs Chaplin had the potential to be extremely helpful in giving us advice on Parliamentary affairs , ’ Institute secretary Andrew Colquhoun told ACCOUNTANCY . |