Example sentences of "[to-vb] us a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when when he gets to know us a bit better we got quite a welcome tonight . |
| 2 | It 's going to pull us a little bit closer to the rest of the pack but we have still got a good squad . ’ |
| 3 | If , furthermore , you wished to sell us a narrow strip of your garden to allow the shelter to be set back a little from the pavement , we could consider providing a fence along your full frontage as part of the accommodation works . |
| 4 | think what he wants to do is he wanted to sell us a new one |
| 5 | ‘ It 'ud do to buy us a few drinks with , Sam , ’ a woman called from the far end of the smoke-blackened room . |
| 6 | Perhaps you 'd like to buy us a drink … ’ |
| 7 | And they are , they are interested in cyclists but from what I could make out reading this they 're not really going to help us a great deal . |
| 8 | And to put this activity into some sort of financial context , we have to help us a budget of roughly half a million pounds . |
| 9 | Tony and I dig a platform for the tent , lowering the snow by about seventy centimetres to give us a nice protective wall . |
| 10 | Nero sends his luv , you know he 's coming over here to give us a turn this winter . |
| 11 | Do you want to give us a hand , lad ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ And it would be nice , ’ she added slowly , ‘ if someone was to give us a bit reading . ’ |
| 13 | So we did n't have to go all the way to Lime Street , Liverpool , Chapman , with his characteristic attention to such details , had arranged for the train to make a special stop at Edgehill Station , to give us a better chance of getting home the same night . |
| 14 | In between the Players played — to give us a chance to get out breaths back . |
| 15 | I wish we had sand to give us a grip . ’ |
| 16 | Fortunately the visibility was excellent , and so we could fly at 3,000 feet above the terrain to give us a larger cone of vision as well as options in the event of engine failure . |
| 17 | Our Higher Self is eager to give us a life full of love , joy , success and abundance ; but it will not do so until we say ‘ Yes ’ , and we keep turning our backs on it . |
| 18 | ‘ Mr Oakley tells me that you 're going to give us a hand . |
| 19 | In two days we reached Tezpur , and again found kind ladies from the tea estates waiting to give us a meal and a bath — bliss indeed ! |
| 20 | ‘ I said when we arrived two weeks ago that by the time it came to this Test you would have to give us a 50–50 chance because this is a one-off game , not part of a Test series . |
| 21 | But then I do n't suppose it 'll matter much with twenty of us in there ; our combined breaths 'll be enough to give us a steam bath . |
| 22 | He went in and fed them for us sometimes , to give us a break , and would phone us up if he thought there were any difficulties . |
| 23 | Mind you , I 'm not saying as that 's what she 'll get for the asking , and I 'm not saying there 's not many a man as 'll hand over his pay-packet unopened , but there 's enough of the other sort to give us a bit of a breather Thursdays . ’ |
| 24 | It had to change to give us a chance to advance . |
| 25 | ‘ It was as if they were trying to give us a clue , deliberately toying with us . ’ |
| 26 | A small investment — for INCUBUS — in certain companies to give us a toehold inside me Common Market . |
| 27 | Other leaky sources at the company were quite prepared to give us a low-down , see front page . |
| 28 | We started many years ago by believing that innovation and uniqueness would provide the revenue to give us a good return , and for a time it did . |
| 29 | Having set it up , he said he was going to give us a demonstration coaching session . |
| 30 | ( Goodman , 1965 , p. 17 , p. 23 , cf. p. 14 ; Ayer , 1972 , pp. 120 f. , cf. p 118 ; Lewis , 1973 , p. 1 ; Mackie , 1973 , p. 64 ) As a look at the philosophy of language and its analyses of " meaning " or its uses of " semantics " quickly shows , much more would need to be done to give us a well-defined problem , but let us not linger . |