Example sentences of "[was/were] giving [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither the instructors nor the other students knew anyone 's real name , or even what they were giving as their name . |
| 2 | The amount of help poorer workers were giving to the Exchequer by 1912 was , in fact , considerable . |
| 3 | All of this information we were giving to the federal people , A T F , who are responsible for investigating and control these kind of activities . |
| 4 | I have read the report of the guardian ad litem and such information as I have which would indicate her view of the local authority 's actions now on several occasions and I have to say that I do not understand what findings the justices believed that they were making or what reasons they were giving for their decision in that brief statement , which I have just quoted in full . |
| 5 | Under ‘ Thursday ’ , he read of only two engagements : his treat , that is , the lunch he was giving at English 's Oyster House at one o'clock for six of his local party , much travelled Salopians upon whose goodwill , patience and forbearance he had long relied ; and ( here his heart fell ) the National Society of Agents ' dinner at the Metropole Hotel . |
| 6 | The Parents ' Action Committee wrote to Orkney Islands Council asking who was supplying Nick Clayton with the information he was giving to the press . |
| 7 | This was a report commissioned by the British government as an assessment of the prospects in the Biafran War , which in fact firmly predicted the inevitable victory of the Nigerian government — a victory which was , of course , inevitable because of the support the British government was giving to it . |
| 8 | In the middle stood a huge tin trunk the size of a Roman sarcophagus , packed full of the wedding presents Mr Postman was giving to his daughter : twenty new salwar kameez , piles of crockery , huge copper pots , a sewing machine , an iron and so on . |
| 9 | Even the pods he was giving to the pigs , he would have liked to have eaten himself . |
| 10 | Huge scaly legs , moist , glistening , with some slimy covering that she instinctively knew was giving off the putrid smell . |
| 11 | She put a big pan of water to boil , ready for the pasta , then added canned mushrooms to the tomato sauce , which was giving off such a heavenly aroma that she felt hungry despite her inner turmoil . |
| 12 | The linesman ( one in particular ) would nt make a single decision but waited to see what the ref was giving before flagging . |