Example sentences of "gave we [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They gave us six piasters and told us it was advance pay for work on a rubber plantation not far away . |
| 2 | ‘ It did n't cause us any problems , and they gave us 1,200 lempiras ( $300 ) . |
| 3 | The pair ignored us completely and gave us superb views of yet another extremely rare endemic bird of the Seychelles . |
| 4 | Our morning walk along the cliffs gave us terrific views of the secluded white sand bays dotted along the coastline followed by a few hours on Pompièrre beach where the locals meet to picnic . |
| 5 | And I 'd written the postcard on boat er they gave us all postcards to send home . |
| 6 | ‘ They gave us all railway warrants back to our homes . |
| 7 | We needed to test our resources and Jets gave us that chance . ’ |
| 8 | We were all looking for some direction in our lives and they gave us that direction . |
| 9 | Farnham , on the other hand , gave us four weeks and sold out two months before opening night , for the whole run . |
| 10 | I 'd spent most of it with the other two , one bad and the other indifferent , now I 'd come across a good one and fate gave us four years together , that 's all . |
| 11 | You gave us five pages to get in one ! |
| 12 | Yes , he gave us five targets to achieve by the one that we had this year . |
| 13 | Naturally , for the people who gave us oral fixation and penis envy , among other contributions to psycho-babble , this is far too simplistic an idea . |
| 14 | We were taken into a small chapel and some Spanish border guards gave us hot coffee and bread . |
| 15 | And this time it did n't give us two X it just gave us one times this one times that one . |
| 16 | Just time to have a little chat about greyhounds with our greyhound man , Mick Weeble ; I think you gave us one winner last week did n't you Mick ? |
| 17 | ‘ The Witch gave us one promise . |
| 18 | It gave us such household names as Glasgow , Linlithgow , Lanark , Bathgate , Dalkeith , Stirling , Perth , Aberdeen , Arbroath , the Tay , the Clyde , the Forth etc , as well as our capital 's Edin , and the famous burn 's Bannock . |
| 19 | The only thing you can say is that DB gave us good service and for this we should be grateful . |
| 20 | Also they had to film the invasion in the dark so they gave us two lamps . |
| 21 | Eventually , though , they got their man , and the wait was worth it because the greatest vocal stylist in rock gave us two hours of inspired Gaelic mumbo-jumbo that was tough , joyful , sometimes sad , but ultimately fluid , festive and free , a celebration , a party for 1,800 delighted fans . |
| 22 | This gave us two kinds of ‘ correct ’ lattice : ( i ) a single path lattice containing only the words intended by the speaker and ( ii ) a lattice containing all the homophones and homophonic phrases that were valid under the fine-class description . |
| 23 | True that the railway did not invent much of this beauty , but it gave us new vistas of it . |
| 24 | This inspiring service gave us new heart . |
| 25 | We ‘ book people ’ are somewhat defensive about our occupation of the Church for a long period , so the following incident naturally gave us new confidence . |
| 26 | I wish him the best because it is n't his fault the dickheads wanted to sell him , and he gave us 200 games of total commitment . |
| 27 | The end of the cold war gave us real hopes that the Gulf operation could be the seed , round which a new role for the UN would develop . |
| 28 | ‘ The fans who did turn up gave us tremendous support and I know they 'll be back but it would be nice to have an even bigger crowd roaring us on . ’ |
| 29 | Only see one way in which we are like God is in having moral and spiritual capacities no other creature has moral and spiritual capacities , they do not of the potential to worship , they do not of a code er , er , of moral laws , they 're not governed by that , it 's a case of , of the , might makes right , it 's a case of the strongest the one that survives and the weakest goes to the wall you 've only got to look er at a litter of pups and the last one is the one that 's pushed to the back every time is n't it , there 's no moral law there , those pups and the , and the bitch does n't er work out , that because that one is weaker it should be getting more , more nourishment , it should be cared for better , it does n't work like that in any thing else , but God has placed within humanity a moral responsibility and his place within as a spiritual capacity , were more than just animals , were created in his image , so God created us , capable of knowing him and growing to be like him and in his original creation they 're in need of , the , the , the highlight of it was when he came down and communicated and talked with Adam and Eve there in the garden and shared his heart with them and there was this perfect commune between God the creator and man his creation , he never did it to any animal , he did n't go and talk to the trees and the plants perfect though they were , he never looked on any of the other creatures that he had made , wonderful though they may be , beautiful in their colouring , and go and talk with them , but he talks with Adam and he shares his heart with him his purpose is that Adam should communicate with him and walk with him and has fellowship with him , growing to be like him , but you see even though God created us like that , he did n't create us as puppets , it was n't God up in heaven pulling the strings and Adam did that and Eve did this and that was how it were , God is not a puppeteer and he made as capable of choosing good and evil , he gave us moral choices , because he made us his moral beings and so we could choose to do this and not to do that , we could choose to , to do this and to leave the other undone . |
| 30 | A sort of Celtic Spinal Tap for Teds , it also gave us seminal TV villain Eddie McClockerty , played by the god-like Richard Wilson . |