Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] us [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may well have been something lacking in the lives of the millions but that need had to be catered for and the catering was done by the ingenious and indefatigable army of commercial opportunists whose energy and boldness tell us an enormous amount about that age . |
| 2 | Secure accommodation in child care us a chameleon-like provision : sometimes a last-ditch strategy to avoid custody for a child otherwise bound there . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , Bob Bigg 's Palace career was greatly reduced by a badly broken leg sustained at Newport in February 1937 , which kept him out of first-team action for fully 21 months , and some of the contemporary pundits reckoned that his absence cost us the single promotion place from Division 3 South in 1938–39 . |
| 4 | Gonny gie us a new fag . ’ |
| 5 | To enable the House and the country to clear the matter up , will the Secretary of State tell us the correct figure ? |
| 6 | The questions which are asked about a still image tell us a great deal about the narrative interest in that image . |
| 7 | Names on the map tell us a great deal about the ancient undrained landscape , and none is more telling than the presence on the Ordnance Survey Map of the lowlands of the word ‘ moor ’ : Morton or Moortown ; Sedgemoor ; Otmoor ; Moorgate , the gate in London 's city wall which opened on to Moorfields , the marsh which William Dugdale , in his seventeenth-century classic on drainage , describes as a favourite resort of Londoners for skating . |
| 8 | You must at the same time send us a detailed estimate of the costs involved . |