Example sentences of "[prep] giving " in BNC.
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| 1 | A series of police operations in Istanbul , Ankara and Adana , mainly directed against safe houses of Turkey 's principal urban guerrilla organisation , Devrimci Sol , in which casualties were high with few prisoners taken , fuelled allegations that the police were shooting to kill with out giving a warning or an opportunity to surrender . |
| 2 | It 's not unusual for many women to feel depressed a few days after giving birth . |
| 3 | I understand the Campaign for Real Ale Limited may change the amount only after giving me prior notice . |
| 4 | After giving the Brigadier a smart salute , he addresses me in his usual gruff manner , ‘ Piper , I want you to play your bagpipes as we disembark ’ . |
| 5 | After giving your letter to my ‘ bonne ’ yesterday I gave up the fight and retired in good order to bed , where I am still . |
| 6 | Greenidge was dropped on 6 and made a further 74 , Kallicharran on 25 and went on to 42 , and King was unbeaten on 31 after giving a chance on 5. 215 was the kind of score to promise a close finish , and Boycott , Willey and Larkins saw them well on the way . |
| 7 | The separation of husband and wife after childbirth is also beneficial , because the time immediately after giving birth is not usually when a woman feels like having sex , and time can be devoted to bonding with the baby . |
| 8 | In spring mulch the soil around it well after giving it a good soaking , this will encourage the soil to stay moist . |
| 9 | He sold Grove Chance , then in foal for the first time , to his neighbour Percy Thomas , but when she died shortly after giving birth to Norton 's Coin he bought back the foal . |
| 10 | A neutron in a free state will decay in about ten minutes into a proton , after giving off one unit of negative electrical energy in the form of a negative pion . |
| 11 | ‘ The Americans ’ , he concluded after giving the Commencement Address at Chicago , ‘ are an inexhaustible marvel . ’ |
| 12 | After giving birth to a child , Watkuweis ran away and journeyed back to her own people . |
| 13 | While , on the one hand , my stammering only in the presence of persons in particular roles , or talking excessively after giving a lecture , pose genuine psychological problems that find expression in certain types of theorizing , so too , on the other hand , do questions about the effects of adrenalin on sitters in an examination room , or family genetics on the choice of career . |
| 14 | After giving due praise for the ‘ truly magnificent score o 68 gross ’ ( not an official record as a temporary green was in use ) , Jack goes on to write , with sensitive appreciation , ‘ Spare a thought if you will for Fred Willson who had handed in a card of 43 points in the same competition , a Stableford round , which in ordinary circumstances surely would have entitled anyone to anticipate receiving the most acceptable prize from the Captain . |
| 15 | It 's very common for a women to be depressed after giving birth : if on top of that the parent 's hopes are dashed , and life seems desperately fraught because they have a handicapped child , it 's absolute hell . ’ |
| 16 | Sometimes even after giving the argument favoured by the authority an extra weight it will not win . |
| 17 | After giving a successful benefit concert ( they gave several while in the country — ( 6 ) ) , the Mozarts had planned to visit Kent , though unfortunately Leopold fell ill . |
| 18 | After giving up the farm he ‘ amused himself with carpentering and the making of various fanciful machines . |
| 19 | As the Frenchmen left their hiding place to head down to the shore they ran into several German patrols and , after giving a good account of themselves , were captured when they ran out of ammunition . |
| 20 | He agreed to the clause allowing them to release records elsewhere , after giving RCA the first option , because he say it as common sense . |
| 21 | After giving massage , hold your hands under a running tap . |
| 22 | Three years after giving all that up he had a heart attack . |
| 23 | A man might be sacked at an hour 's notice , perhaps after giving years of service , yet received no compensation , no redundancy payment . |
| 24 | He was the son of Joshua Green ( b. 1725 ) by his father 's first wife Catherine Simpson , whom he had married on 22nd February 1756 , and who died on 5th September 1760 in her 27th year , just eleven days after giving birth to her son William on the 25th August . |
| 25 | It 's not unusual for many women to feel depressed a few days after giving birth . |
| 26 | Which minister resigned after giving an interview to the Spectator about Europe ? |
| 27 | Trustingly she slipped a small hand into one of his , and she would have gone with him anywhere , but he detached her fingers after giving them a reassuring squeeze . |
| 28 | After giving Lamb directions to the farm and explaining that he would lodge at Bert Weald 's cottage , Jonadab and George turned away . |
| 29 | After giving up teaching home economics , because ‘ it went sour and , at 40 , I felt the need to take stock , ’ Lorna started up on her own , designing curtains . |
| 30 | She died in 1797 , aged 23 , after giving birth to their fourth child . |