Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [verb] us the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A beggar lad showed us the house in a dank , narrow alleyway where Mistress Hopkins lived . |
| 2 | Community Action gives us the opportunity to do that and more , on a fairly large scale . |
| 3 | THE 1 FM ROADSHOW offers us the twin delights of Billy Ray Cyrus and Sinitta . |
| 4 | ‘ A team effort won us the match , ’ he said . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ After a few minutes an embarrassed train driver told us the man who should have unlocked the gate had not turned up . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A handbook for teachers published before the Second World War gives us the flavour of a drawing lesson in an elementary school . |
| 9 | 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 , |
| 10 | Marx was wrong , it is now claimed , when he asserted that the steam engine gave us the capitalist . |
| 11 | The '70s energy crisis gave us the world 's first solar-powered loudspeaker . |