Example sentences of "[vb past] us an " in BNC.
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| 1 | PS : Blandly found us an excellent man to be captain , and Silver found a man called Arrow to be first officer . |
| 2 | Lloyd even promised us an interview with Andrew Ball but we heard nothing . |
| 3 | The young man showed us an envelope with K.K.K. on the back , and five small orange pips . |
| 4 | I hate to admit it in fact but er , no the way they got things organized , got lecture tours , rallies and what have you together , you know I think er taught us an incredible amount . |
| 5 | Anyway it took us an hour and twenty minutes to get there , it took us forty minutes to get home . |
| 6 | Took us an age to cut it . |
| 7 | The Chairman , Charles Holmes , Vice Chairman Frank Scott , Secratary John Potter , their wives and all the other members we met gave us an exceptionally warm welcome and instantly made us feel at home . |
| 8 | Television had brought golf to the working class and for just a moment television gave us an idea of what it meant to them . |
| 9 | The cold was intense , but I welcomed it because it gave us an excuse to lie close together for warmth . |
| 10 | It was proving to be an ideal choice of holiday with a programme of free activities that gave us an easy opportunity to make friends with the guests form other nations who gave the Club such a cosmopolitan atmosphere . |
| 11 | This gave us an overall playing record of four wins out of six matches played , with one defeat and one match abandoned . |
| 12 | That gave us an opportunity to meet people from other parts of the diocese and actually to find out that we really are one family ! |
| 13 | That gave us an IAS of 135 kts which trued out at 141 kts . |
| 14 | He gave us an official letter to show the military commanders we might bump into along the way , and sent one of his high-ranking aides down to the dock to see us off . |
| 15 | Erm I 'm not saying that er there were n't problems in security and using public transport and fear of using public transport after dark , but we were quite surprised that compared with the rest of the U K it was erm not acceptable but it gave us an indication on , on where to go from there on , erm and also I think er the important factor that in the lower in Strathclyde that we 've actually consulted women in terms of er what they want and what they need er in the transport world erm in public transport and that 's not lip service we 've actually had discussions groups and that information has been fed into the large erm public transport review that were undertaking at the present time . |
| 16 | Gerry pointed out , however , that referees were not happy having Pushov and his interpreter stood on the goal line as it gave us an unfair advantage . |
| 17 | They gave us an apple each . |
| 18 | A screening programme for high blood pressure and related risks , begun in 1968 and sustained for 21 years in a defined community , gave us an opportunity to study long term management of high blood pressure in young adults in a social context , with data collected prospectively on originally unsuspected associations . |
| 19 | You see the i it was er we used to make curtains then for Littlewoods , Littlewoods as it is now , they 're still , you know , the they were about the forerunners of the er tt this er catalogue business , and if they gave us an order that would last us a long time , and that usually the eight points , which was meant to say there were eight threads to an inch . |
| 20 | The light westerly breeze strengthened as we travelled north and we hoisted a large mainsail , borrowed from our 32-foot cutter which set well on Viking 's stubby mast and gave us an extra knot . |
| 21 | The green sweep of the wooded hills on Morven and Mull gave us an impression of verdant lushness after the naked rock and brown moors of the Outer Isles . |
| 22 | Therefore it gave us an idea what it was like in the working world . |
| 23 | Our role in defeating Germany and Japan , and in saving Greece and Turkey from Soviet take-over , undoubtedly gave us an exaggerated view of our capacity to help other peoples with quite different backgrounds . |
| 24 | That gave us an overview |
| 25 | ‘ He gave us an indication with regard to certain astrological things that are going on … if these things came to pass , we 're talking in terms of days . ’ |
| 26 | David Wallen ( 11 March ) gave us an interesting account of a series of blunders revealed to the Parliamentary Defence Committee at its annual consideration of the Trident programme . |
| 27 | Ms Evans gave us an interesting talk on the company personnel and training policies . |
| 28 | She gave us an IOU for three million pounds and told us to get lost . |
| 29 | It was so hot and dry , another party on Gimer made us an offer we could n't refuse . |
| 30 | I 'm not changing my tune , Councillor Wyle knows that in the past I have actually offered to go with them when they 've made erm , visits to the minister , and when he said , we we we tried , but we never got anywhere , and on various issues I 've said , well perhaps if we got us an all party delegation , at least we could have done no worse . |