Example sentences of "[noun] gave we [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Blufton gave us some important details you did n't know , ’ Blanche continued . |
| 2 | An American soldier gave us each a balloon and told us that the winner would be the one who could soonest burst the balloon by blowing it up beyond its stretching point . |
| 3 | At the end of the EFL training course I did in London , a British Council type gave us all a pep talk before we were packed off to Ankara or Kuala Lumpur . |
| 4 | We devised a sort of Great Egg Race for the children — Rover gave us some materials which would normally have gone on the scrap heap , lent us a hall and judged the competition . |
| 5 | Harold gave us some wonderful stuff to keep the slugs off . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ had just been released in England and David was doing well with it , or so I 'm told , but no-one had heard of him at all in America , so Tony DeFries gave us each a box of 25 albums to just give to whoever we thought was cool , which actually turned out to be a pretty good idea . |
| 7 | We needed to test our resources and Jets gave us that chance . ’ |
| 8 | Elizabeth was brave and helped us ; her sweet smile gave us some happiness in the unhappy days after my mother 's death . |
| 9 | There are few places in the world where you can feel welcome away from home , but Liverpool gave us that and more . |
| 10 | Pike gave us all four verses , including the one about the wagon train being painted green , which I had never heard before . |
| 11 | ‘ Those weekends gave us more problems than they solved , ’ Ryan conceded . |
| 12 | I remember Mrs Seaton gave us some mince pies and we ate them hot , sitting on the floor in front of the tree — just the two of us . |
| 13 | I had been saving up to buy a cooker and fridge and Brian 's mum and dad gave us some of the furniture . |
| 14 | The boy 's foster mother refused to be interviewed , but his real mother gave us this reaction . |