Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] us the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trust my partner and I share gives us the freedom to get on and do things without stopping every ten minutes to check up on each other . |
| 2 | ‘ No , she 's given us the slip again , damn it . ’ |
| 3 | She 's shown us the label so we can recognize the packaged news story like it was a familiar soap powder . |
| 4 | It 's going through that system , and once they 've given us the go ahead then we can go to the solicitor in Lancaster . |
| 5 | ‘ And neither will Froebe and his men , once they have shown us the way . ’ |
| 6 | And then he tried to give us the slip and run off . |
| 7 | And in so doing he has given us the joyrider 's equivalent of Neil Young 's ‘ Tonight 's The Night ’ , The Pogues ' ‘ Hell 's Ditch ’ and the Stones ' ‘ Exile On Main Street ’ — one of those awful black records to turn to when you 're feeling at your most morbid . |
| 8 | ‘ He has given us the feeling that we could not have been better prepared , ’ said Hockley after her opening round . |
| 9 | He had given us the computer codes to chalk on the outside of the boxes , but you would n't have caught him packing files into the boxes or wrapping them up with pink tape afterwards . |
| 10 | We should n't forget either though that we already have a Social Chapter from the ni nineteen eighty seven Act , it 's not to be sniffed at , it 's given us the directive on the protection of pregnant women at work . |
| 11 | They says , right , he says , I 've got a I 've got a problem with alcohol and he 's given us the valium to get us off the alcohol . |
| 12 | Please for god 's sake stop playing Fairclough at the back — the defence is a shambles when he 's there — quite honestly I 'm getting pretty pissed off with Wilko — i know we 've had a long unbeaten run and we 're still second and he 's won us the championship etc etc and this is defenitely over reaction to last night but get rid of the fucking bastard and find us someone who 'll pick teams that can beat the Norwich 's and Man Utd7s of the league or we 'll be perenial mid table finishers . |