Example sentences of "i [was/were] giving " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time I was six I was giving myself injections , twice a day , before and after school . |
| 2 | ‘ By the time I was six , I was giving myself injections twice a day ’ |
| 3 | I was giving the chimney a quick sweep . |
| 4 | As I was giving this description it came to me that I was talking about someone else . |
| 5 | And now , just as I was giving up all hope … |
| 6 | In any case if they were n't in after three rings I was giving up . |
| 7 | On that morning I was giving them the latest news of Nigel . |
| 8 | We were in the sports hall and she flew right up on to the top of the climbing frame at the far end from where I was giving my little lecture . |
| 9 | In fact I still remember ‘ Tiger Smith ’ coming into our dressing-room while I was giving a pre-season captain 's talk and asking him who the hell he was . |
| 10 | In his memoirs , O'Neill offers an unconvincing explanation for this major concession ; ‘ I was fully aware of the advantage I was giving the Republicans as all the votes would take place well within the new president 's honeymoon period . |
| 11 | I was giving them advice on how to handle the media . |
| 12 | I was totally confident I could lose any nancified verger on my chosen ground , provided I had a decent start , which was precisely what I was giving myself . |
| 13 | My father had another , everything was okay if you came out at any time after the thirty first of March , look all I 'm doing now is I was giving back , er taking my position as the company director , getting a salary off the rent in my farms and small holdings and my shares in shipping . |
| 14 | I was giving tea to my opponent who , though the same weight , was probably two years older , when I was sent for by Julian Hall , my fag master . |
| 15 | It was expensive , but as I was giving up my holiday I saw no reason why the department should n't pay . |
| 16 | I was giving up a great deal of my own time , I may say , just to supplement the inadequate teaching he got at Burleigh . |
| 17 | The reference to the ‘ friend ’ had to do with my association with the Speech Institute , where I was giving a course of lectures on what the Directress , Miss Marjorie Gullan , liked to call ‘ Modernist Poetry ’ ( for it was still considered that ‘ poetry ’ ended with the Georgians , whom we had all studied at school , and that Pound and Eliot were advanced experimenters ) . |
| 18 | But I was so proud of my beautiful daughter , and I wanted to make up to you for the years we lost before I met your mama again ; I wanted you to have the best of everything , and I thought that that was what I was giving you . |
| 19 | I was giving that table a lot of attention . |
| 20 | And anyway , I was giving away at least fifty pounds . |
| 21 | laugh , unfortunately you ca n't erm ca n't erm when I was giving this similar lecture two or three years ago , erm there was er a student in the class she put up her hand she said yes , she said that 's absolutely right she said , what you 're saying about the female does n't have to submit she said I used to work as a , as a stable maid at Newmarket at a stud farm and she said er you 've got ta have five people for er er to cover a mare . |
| 22 | I set up another three Slammers , pouring the lime juice and tequila together so that I could cut mine to about half the strength I was giving them . |
| 23 | ‘ Advice , I was giving you . |
| 24 | no , no , I was giving you an example to what would happen on the time scale , but let me go back to January nineteen eighty seven , if the brochure was printed in January nineteen eighty seven if the brochure was printed in January nineteen eighty seven and I went to buy in March , April , May nineteen eighty eight , the figures in the service charges would be out of date |
| 25 | The honourable gentleman said that was a straight question , I shall give him a straight answer , er no it would n't , er if I can return to the line of er explanation I was giving Mr Deputy Speaker . |
| 26 | But if you think about it in contemporary terms I I was giving a lecture in London er a couple of weeks ago erm on the subject of erm America 's changing foreign policy under Clinton if you just think about foreign policy making and who makes it , and questions of consistency and you think about some of the crises that are going on in the world from Bosnia and so on what does the constitution tell us ? |
| 27 | ‘ I was out with Annsley one evening and I was giving him some stick about not putting something back into the game , ’ said Armstrong . |
| 28 | She said : ‘ I had just been saying that I was giving up the lotto , but my husband , Martin , encouraged me to keep trying . ’ |
| 29 | and the night we slept in the garden and the night before we went we , Mrs was taken ill and I was giving her , tepid sponges up and the towel where she was sleeping in the garden |
| 30 | I phoned and the man that I needed to speak to was not there , he 'd been seconded to the Himalayas or something , he was only coming back erm , in the middle of January , I was in , erm , November or whatever it was , I was giving a few days ' grace , and then I was going to call . |