Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [verb] us the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | King David shows us the way when he says , ‘ It is good to give thanks to the Lord … and make thy praise our pride . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ When Data General showed us the changeover to the AV4100 , it took an hour , ’ says Geoffrey Holmes , a former publisher of ACCOUNTANCY who has been helping to re-implement the system . |
| 3 | A beggar lad showed us the house in a dank , narrow alleyway where Mistress Hopkins lived . |
| 4 | Sister Marcus gave us the report with her sleeves rolled up . |
| 5 | Community Action gives us the opportunity to do that and more , on a fairly large scale . |
| 6 | THE 1 FM ROADSHOW offers us the twin delights of Billy Ray Cyrus and Sinitta . |
| 7 | ‘ A team effort won us the match , ’ he said . |
| 8 | When Sid Boyling gave us the light and waved us on , I read my brief prepared introduction and Mr Murray began : ‘ My friends , I speak to you from Melachusetuck , the old Indian name for Moose Jaw , and it is my pleasure to visit the studios of CHAB , your own community station , which your loyal support and encouragement over the years has made possible . |
| 9 | I think the safety net gives us the ability to do the Mahabharata , Out On Tuesday , After Midnight , to keep running Channel Four News at 7 pm , and everything else that in the commercial world you 'd actually have to look at . |
| 10 | ‘ It was good of your Mr Barnet to lend us the carriage , ’ Ruth said when they were driving along . |
| 11 | Jo Spence gave us the courage to open our own family albums , to remember the past , to acknowledge both the pleasure and the pain , and to celebrate the sublime , scruffy , misunderstood mystery of growing up female . |
| 12 | At a meeting , our ward councillor Mr I. Hartley informed us the reason for this decision was because it was not viable . |
| 13 | ‘ After a few minutes an embarrassed train driver told us the man who should have unlocked the gate had not turned up . ’ |
| 14 | Erm , some years ago , the Executive Committee set us the target of reducing our deficit to nil , and reducing the deficit to nil by the year ninety-one , ninety-two . |
| 15 | A handbook for teachers published before the Second World War gives us the flavour of a drawing lesson in an elementary school . |
| 16 | Our Mosquito squadron had gone out to bomb one of the usual targets in western France and when they began to come back , the first crew to come into the Met Office told us the news , |
| 17 | Marx was wrong , it is now claimed , when he asserted that the steam engine gave us the capitalist . |
| 18 | The '70s energy crisis gave us the world 's first solar-powered loudspeaker . |