Example sentences of "not giving [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girl envies the penis of boys , and blames her mother for not giving her one . |
| 2 | ‘ I am not giving her up . |
| 3 | ‘ You knew very well what you were doing , ’ he replied , not giving her an inch of himself , wondering how he ever could have desired her . |
| 4 | Not giving her a chance to finish , fitzAlan 's good arm shot out and snagged Isabel about the waist . |
| 5 | But I 'm not giving her up . |
| 6 | ‘ Strange , ’ Ven drawled , ‘ I was going to order the same , ’ he added solemnly , and , not giving her a hint of what she had requested , he passed their two orders over to the waiter . |
| 7 | Local authorities blame the federal government for not giving them enough money to do the job . |
| 8 | It 's also worth stressing that these books are for real people , with real gardens : we 're not giving them pictures of Blenheim or Buckingham Palace . |
| 9 | We are not giving them special instructions to sell into schools , and in the main it is run on a party plan approach . ’ |
| 10 | We can find lots of reasons for not giving them ten points , could n't we really , if we really worked at it . |
| 11 | And he says nineteen sixty two when I started reffing and he said the oth they 're not I 'm not giving them this one but these two are for the other mascot scene . |
| 12 | Well I know you 're not giving them our biscuit but then we just get through . |
| 13 | All it took was this fifty-pound note and people not giving me another chance … ’ |
| 14 | I shall always be grateful to him for not giving me the usual reply of an adult to a curious child 's questions , ‘ You 're too young to understand . ‘ |
| 15 | First , Charlie remembering our first aid training in not giving me morphine , his quick thinking in turning the oxygen to full supply , and the Lord in granting my mother 's petition . |
| 16 | So when you looked at in the in the exam , did you think , Oh , they 're not giving me enough information here , or There 's some trick I do n't know , or what did you think about it ? |
| 17 | I phone Andy and confirm it 's still all right to visit , then I ring Eddie and get the next three days off , tell the cops — they 're based at Fettes , though the DI has gone back down to London , and no they 're still not giving me back my new portable yet — and ( after I 've cleaned the car up a bit ) head out of the city and across the grey bridge in a day of squally , buffeting rain that has the bridge 's 40-limit signs on , high-sided vehicles banned and the 205 dancing its Dunlops sideways as the gusts hit . |
| 18 | You 're not giving me room to breath — I shall probably expire through suffocation . |
| 19 | ‘ Thank you for not giving me away . |
| 20 | not giving me much chance to get done what I was gon na do though |
| 21 | It also reinforces his case by demonstrating the implications of not giving him the cash that he needs . |
| 22 | But Moubarak argued that he might have misjudged the colt 's preparation in not giving him sufficient work since he was found to be suffering from a minor skin infection on his legs after his previous race . |
| 23 | The mistake is often made of leaving too much to the insurance broker — not giving him sufficiently clear instructions and then , most importantly , not checking with him that the policy taken out does cover the risks which need to be insured against . |
| 24 | Graham felt oddly satisfied at seeing life go on around him like this ; he felt almost smug at walking past people and them not giving him a second glance , at least not now he 'd got rid of Slater . |
| 25 | Still half asleep he smiled indulgently , scenting a victory , since he had wanted to be generous all day and had been feeling mildly irritated with her for not giving him the opportunity . |
| 26 | Morris suddenly felt tired ; the doctored wine was not giving him the uplift he needed . |
| 27 | We should be building a side around him — not giving him away . |
| 28 | You 're not giving him time off again , are you ? |
| 29 | He became angry , as though I had personally betrayed him by not giving him a boy . ’ |
| 30 | First , the family are not giving him any legal ‘ threat ’ . |