Example sentences of "given us [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , we heard that if we 'd come here before , you might have given us money , and we wondered if we could have it in retrospect . |
| 2 | Yes , yes it is , it 's , it 's in Assembly Rooms which is slightly more gracious than the rather large er main building , and the mayor has very kindly er given the room , given us permission to use the room free of charge , and she will also be there at the performance as she is er , seems very interested in our work to date . |
| 3 | It has given us experts , not wise men . ’ |
| 4 | In the '70s and the '90s they 've given us Crispin Twat 's ‘ Fruit Bowl in Oils ’ and Cud — the last of the great art school rockers . |
| 5 | It had given us stability for the past forty years . |
| 6 | ‘ This result of this case has given us hope and will give us confidence in bringing more investigations to the fore . |
| 7 | Lawrence has given us something we could not easily get otherwise : he has given us thought spoken as language . |
| 8 | Every day she has given us hemp for our nests . " |
| 9 | Now , I hope I 've got these facts right and I 'm sure that not , that Eileen may correct me that er we have er forty hundred pounds in the budget , budget for this er the erm South Wales congregation has , has kindly erm given us grant of a thousand pounds and I understand from the secretary of con , Cardiff congregation , and he 's also offered a thousand pounds I do n't know whether we 've got that yet ? |
| 10 | But despite the laugh it has given us girlies at the expense of the hairy brigade , the material has its disadvantages . |
| 11 | ‘ If Allah had intended us to fly , he would have given us wings , not arms , ’ the policeman had replied . |
| 12 | Propaganda had given us indigestion , and reports of how many aeroplanes had been destroyed and how many ships had been sunk were becoming monotonous if not unbelievable . |
| 13 | Two areas of France dominate French bikesport — the Auvergne area , which has produced Christian and Dominique Sarron , Morillas and 1982 250 world champ Jean Louis Tournadre , and the Cote d'Azur , which has given us Raymond Roche , Jean Francois Balde and Ruggia — and these local heroes love to get together in the winter for fun and games . |
| 14 | So , for instance , had you wanted an ad in this issue , we would need to have received your call by 25th August , since that would have given us time to process the ads and put the pages through the system . |
| 15 | ‘ We 've been completely ignored for a long time , which has been a pretty good thing because it 's given us time to develop , ’ beams Brett . |
| 16 | If she 'd had the abortion it would have given us time to do that sort of thing . |
| 17 | You do n't yet give us money , although I hope may , one day you will be persuaded to do so , but you have given us time , and particularly in the person of your colleague Sandra who is here , and her time to us has been enormously valuable and I want to thank you for that . |
| 18 | We have an Academic Advisory Group , chaired by Lord Lewis , which has given us access to professional expertise at the highest level . |
| 19 | Though by nature we Gentiles are ‘ without Christ , aliens from the commonwealth of Israel , strangers from the covenant of promise , having no hope and without God in the world ’ , the Holy Spirit has given us access , through Christ 's self-sacrifice for us ( Eph. 2:12–18 ) . |
| 20 | The entry of Britain into the Common Market in 1973 had given us access to a 10% repayment scheme of the Consolidated Fund , allowed under EEC rules , and it was from this source that the money would come for the expansion of the Customs fleet . |
| 21 | The firm 's given us notice of this . |
| 22 | I eventually came round in the Chamden General Hospital and on the slab next to me was club chairman , Ken Mentle , an oxygen pump beside him , a nurse frantically thumping his chest and Ken rambling deliriously about a Micky Deere scorcher from the penalty spot which had given us victory . |
| 23 | We also thank many others who have given us material help , including the late Mr T. Saddington ; Mr C. Hadlow , the first Curator of Stoke Bruerne Waterways Museum ; his successor , Mr R.J. Hutchings ; and Mr Philip Stevens , formerly of Leicester Museum , and Mr A.W . |
| 24 | ‘ The case has given us confidence in bringing more investigations to the fore , ’ said Mr Fox . |
| 25 | Now Michael White and John Gribbin have given us Stephen Hawking : a Life in Science , or rather Mr White has given us the life and Mr Gribbin the science ; the latter is awash with black holes , white dwarfs , protons , pulsars , quasars and quarks and is therefore no more comprehensible than Brief History ; also , what is one to make of a writer who speaks at one moment of ‘ tiny black holes ’ and the next of ‘ black holes which could eat solar systems for breakfast ’ ? |
| 26 | Recent studies have given us insight into the mechanism of the anti-infarct effect of ischaemic preconditioning . |
| 27 | We are now being told by this arrogant and incompetent lot that having given us record unemployment , bankruptcies , house repossession , liquidations , factory closures etc , that they are the only ones fit to govern when surely that record should make them hang their heads in shame . |
| 28 | that , we went up there as in actual fact we were looking for certain place when er the postcard we had was n't it , was n't the cows given us trouble and we went |