Example sentences of "us [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This gave us the chance to offer a comprehensive service and also to develop FPC in its own market . ’ |
| 32 | ‘ GIVE US THE CHANCE ’ is a splendid film which not only shows work carried out successfully by professionals it also indicates how families and voluntary organisations can participate in enriching the lives of the physically and mentally handicapped . |
| 33 | This gives us the chance , this helps us but that 's all it does . |
| 34 | But Machiavelli , who one gathers is a favourite source of the author , gave us the lowdown on this a few centuries ago . |
| 35 | The cane , cane and strap you used to have , the teacher used to give us the strap , the headmaster used to give us the cane . |
| 36 | His eyes are pinpoints , surely the smallest in any Modigliani portrait , as if to reveal to us the man 's utter lack of vision . |
| 37 | ‘ After a few minutes an embarrassed train driver told us the man who should have unlocked the gate had not turned up . ’ |
| 38 | ‘ The more radical the slogans , the more difficult it is for us the day after in the corridors of power in Moscow . ’ |
| 39 | Elliott Gabellah , vice president of the Rhodesian ANC , met us the day after he came back from the independence celebrations . |
| 40 | Diggs came and told us the day he broke out . ’ |
| 41 | That gives us the day off tomorrow . ’ |
| 42 | sort of feel you know , I mean , I 've known people where , I mean , it was like us the day we moved in here |
| 43 | The company that owns the transmitters , NTL , tells us the work will be finished by October 10 |
| 44 | For us the fertilizer business has been a good business , in many parts of the world over many years , and even its downturns have been of fairly limited duration . |
| 45 | Yeah pass us the headphone . |
| 46 | Er in use of other you should have the difference in survival between the patients that had more than twenty one or less than twenty one but actually it er you did n't show us the survival curves for |
| 47 | Shove us the marmalade , Jo . ’ |
| 48 | He 'll give us the bite and aggressiveness we need in this area , ’ he added . |
| 49 | ‘ Why did n't you tell us the floor 's covered in puke ? ’ he said angrily , hopping on one foot . |
| 50 | ‘ And they still assure us the sun will rise again tomorrow . |
| 51 | Crilly , I 'll tell you about the sparkle of Belgravia , the shimmer of white marble , a sumptuous , salubrious white , the sugary white of fluffy friendship , cloudship , feely white , and the slim cobblestone road which led to the river where I met James who was fresh from Waterstone 's with his arms full of Pinter plays , O he was as a young Terence Stamp , Crilly , but for the sly cracks of wisdom about the corners of his eyes , and we drank espresso and he told me about Spain and the high mountains of India , and the Pyrenees he had taken on foot , and though I was as trite as my shopping Saturdays and my small muggy and squirming palms in summertime , he painted my body swirly-lined and peach upon a large canvas and made love to me upon the tip of the Heath with all of London a basin of rooftops beneath us while the sky loomed low in grey and pink , the Heath a dark pudding of sloping mountains , wild and white and wide as Brontë country , with only the smug suburban cliffs of Highgate Village peering from behind its sprawling hem , and big dogs scurried like brown birds to the crevice of foothills and then disappeared , so we made love for a while beneath that sky , which cast a blaze upon us the colour of cream . |
| 52 | we went in , you know , and that was the place an'all even the carpet that 's twelve hundred pound , cos they showed us the bill , you know er it 's been a it 's dirty and that but you know that wants , wants a good washing you know |
| 53 | What , in order to decide whether they 're going to give us the contract what they have asked us to do is prepare a thirty minute radio , sorry thirty second radio presentation and we will re , record for them and they will hear , which we want to emphasise based on how good that was whether they want to take the contract out with us . |
| 54 | It is arguable whether these routes are worthwhile , but it would be nice if everybody could judge this rather than some narrow-minded person not giving us the choice . |
| 55 | Erm cos if we differentiate it gives us the gradient at any point . |
| 56 | And she rang up here when when they offered us the space , she rang up here and asked for me . |
| 57 | Area manager Beth Robinson says : ‘ Our business in Finaghy has steadily increased year by year and for some time we have been looking for premises , in a prominent location , which would give us the space we now need . |
| 58 | To re-finance ourselves in order to finish the task , we arranged a Flexible Businessloan with a two year capital repayment holiday which gave us the breathing space we needed . |
| 59 | He broke the gun in half and showed us the cylinder filled with six red plastic capsules . |
| 60 | The employee records were created on Total database files thus giving us the flexibility to link the information into other systems as required . |