Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] giving " in BNC.
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| 1 | You would be very cross if I stopped giving it . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I jumped out of my seat , my headphones flew off and I started giving her mouth-to-mouth . |
| 3 | I started giving lessons to more pupils , which sometimes involved cycling to houses far out in the country side . |
| 4 | ‘ Anyway , I 've been so lucky in life I reckon it 's about time I started giving something back — and the club 's the perfect place to do it . ’ |
| 5 | After several years of sheer hard work and dedicated self-sacrifice , which involved giving up her fine mansion and living in cheap lodgings , she finally turned the bankrupt enterprise around and by 1904 was able to sell her shares in Dillwyn & Co. at a very substantial profit to the German industrial giant , Metallgesellschaft of Frankfurt , which was then striving to create an international monopoly of zinc manufacture . |
| 6 | ‘ We learnt a lot during this first phase , which involved giving detailed presentations to technical experts — and our competitors ’ , he added . |
| 7 | Frederick Starr calls the second and third principles " decentralization " ( which involved giving local officials more power but preserved the notion of bureaucratic or " ministerial " hegemony ) and " self-government " ( which meant introducing representative organs and giving non-bureaucrats in the provinces a larger say in the management of their affairs ) . |
| 8 | Not only were connections with the Labour Party broken but the Bradford Conference , against the advice of the NAC , decided to discontinue paying the Trade Union political levy ; to withdraw from membership of the Co-operative Party ; and to forbid ILP Members from holding any position in the Labour movement which involved giving support to the policies of the Labour Party . |
| 9 | Only once has he come close to losing his rag , when publicly embarrassed by his press secretary , Julie Hall , as she admitted giving the first name of the little girl at the centre of the health election broadcast row to the press . |
| 10 | Hesitating , she risked giving him a haunted look . |
| 11 | She resisted this for several months , not wishing to loosen her control of urban policy , but eventually she capitulated giving the responsibility to Mr Kenneth Clarke , Minister for Trade and Industry . |
| 12 | She enjoyed giving them the slip , as she sometimes succeeded in doing . |
| 13 | She started giving me quizzical looks . |
| 14 | First in your Country Profile section you started giving star ratings for people 's life expectancy and women 's oppression . |
| 15 | You kept giving him a hundred . |
| 16 | Not that he had n't told her the story of his sainted sister Eileen , and how she died giving birth to her child . |
| 17 | Daughter of a brilliant and beautiful mother , who died giving birth , the gauche and unconfident Catherine Sloper lives in the shadow of her rich father 's thinly veiled contempt … when the young handsome and charming Morris Townsend falls in love with her , the father thinks he is nothing but a fortune seeking bounder . |
| 18 | She kept giving lifts to boys in the corridors and provided chairs for those standing in the queues . |
| 19 | Did n't Celia tell you about the awful time she had giving birth to Donna ? ’ |
| 20 | Our passing was n't up to their standard ( ! ) and we kept giving it away too often . |
| 21 | Endless afternoon teas when we discussed giving mugs of hot chocolate to needy children at Christmas time or whose turn it was to do the flowers in the Maternity Hospital . |
| 22 | We considered giving it a miss , but decided it would look rude . |
| 23 | I think as soon as people from outside of the community , and the quarrying community , as soon as they started giving us support , telling us right , we 'll help you , both financially and you know physically and what have you , you know the students , the women 's support group , when things started getting organized . |
| 24 | But to find her meant giving him the slip , and she had n't been too successful at that the last time . |
| 25 | And they er er they said people getting on this train er it was on the eleven , platform eleven near to where we were make sure , they kept giving it out giving it out , you must get out at Leamington Spa if you want Banbury . |
| 26 | Yeah , yeah six minutes past the hour so there , yeah , so they kept giving you doubts , now if you 're getting on this train make sure you get out at Lemington , so at about twenty past twelve , the twelve six went out from platform eleven , why , cos that will upset everything then , by , few of the trains kept coming round , then they said were very sorry but the Shrewsbury train will come in at platform ten that 's where we 're all waiting , so the ready train be outside somewhere , so , that came in just as the , the twelve , six went out about twenty past twelve these in and this girl got up so we said do n't get on this , you 'll never get to Birmingham you get on here , wait until we get on we said , cos they changed the train , oh she was getting all worked up , she come from Middlesborough , well I said well , well , anyway , we said no , there , there 's no trains for university no , nobody will be going at the right time will they ? |
| 27 | He had given her the capital for the first one on their twentieth wedding anniversary , when he had already bought a Georgian pendant that he dearly wished her to have , but before he chanced giving it to her he had asked her what she would like , and she told him . |
| 28 | He tried giving freelance lectures in Edinburgh , and wrote a book on British starfishes ( 1841 ) , but these brought in very little . |
| 29 | He stopped giving Gina housekeeping . |
| 30 | His voice trailed as he recalled giving his name to the anonymous diplomat during his earlier call to the Iranian Embassy in Paris . |