Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] giving [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If it were n't for me giving you a roof over your head after your mother had the gall to die on me , you would have ended up in the bloody workhouse ! |
| 2 | After all the fuss you made about my giving you roses , should n't you put them in water first ? ’ |
| 3 | Any chance of you giving us another five units of something . |
| 4 | Every time it would end up with him giving me some money . |
| 5 | There 's no point in me giving you type A when type B's better for you . |
| 6 | But there was no sense in her giving it to me in full view of everyone . |
| 7 | I came back for a month , met a Peruvian girl and then I got a letter from her giving me a really good reason to come back . |
| 8 | Apart from how kind he is to me giving me something so easy . |
| 9 | I might go out and buy it straight away , I might wait weeks , months before I acquire the particular thing to give to you as a gift , you 've got ta wait on on me giving it to you . |
| 10 | ‘ I wanted to speak to you before I saw Ursula , ’ she concluded , ‘ because she might object to my giving you the private detective 's report on Maurice 's finances . ’ |
| 11 | Yeah , right , and then erm , Kent or one of them is talking to you giving them your address , an no , giving them their address . |
| 12 | The snow hook is actually on the end of the tow line so that in the unlikely event of the karabiner unhooking — as it did once on me — — the hook stays close to you giving you an outside chance of holding on to the team . |
| 13 | ‘ By the way , ’ she began , hardly able to credit that , when earlier that morning her car had been such a concern to her , great expanses of time should now elapse without her giving it so much as a thought , ‘ could you tell me the name of the garage where my car — ’ |
| 14 | and it was dark green oh it it 's not bad but you know I 'd just lost ten pounds to the taxi driver to him giving me the wrong change so I was feeling in a very frugal mood an and this the green of this candlestick holder you know what I call the old fashioned dark green , of some china ? |
| 15 | Negativity can not exist without your giving it life . |
| 16 | In point of fact the reverse ruled : I was constantly having chits thrust at me giving me a blow-by-blow account of " Charlie 's " state of health , but I was never made aware of the seriousness of Eddie 's wound , and somehow I did not know until I visited him in hospital later that morning . |