Example sentences of "gave us [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 'd written the postcard on boat er they gave us all postcards to send home . |
| 2 | ‘ They gave us all railway warrants back to our homes . |
| 3 | We needed to test our resources and Jets gave us that chance . ’ |
| 4 | We were all looking for some direction in our lives and they gave us that direction . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This gave us enough time to cover the harmonium and clear away any telltale signs of wood . |
| 7 | ‘ They 're cheaper to run and they gave us more flexibility on positioning , ’ Wren adds . |
| 8 | ‘ Those weekends gave us more problems than they solved , ’ Ryan conceded . |
| 9 | I gave them the meat of the dead animal , and they gave us more food and water . |
| 10 | Elizabeth was brave and helped us ; her sweet smile gave us some happiness in the unhappy days after my mother 's death . |
| 11 | He gave us some money . |
| 12 | Tony was supposed to have been singing in a Black Sabbath ‘ reunion ’ in the States , which did n't happen for him in the end , but that gave us some breathing space . |
| 13 | You gave us , you gave us some dates on page three , item one hundred and twenty , thirteenth and fourteenth of December . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Some could n't say what they 'd been wearing themselves , but their female colleagues usually gave us some idea . ’ |
| 17 | The bank was usually very understanding , and generally gave us some leeway until we were able to sell something . |
| 18 | They gave us some time back afterwards , because of the bairn having an operation . |
| 19 | And er well she gave us some towels . |
| 20 | One of the girls my colleague interviewed gave us some information . |
| 21 | Then she gave us some tea and toast . |
| 22 | They gave us some swords too ! |
| 23 | But what they wonder why they gave us some swords ! |
| 24 | The boy 's foster mother refused to be interviewed , but his real mother gave us this reaction . |
| 25 | No we went in and erm it was about er three or four minutes before we actually started and he just gave us this paper and he put sets of questions to the different types of differentiation |
| 26 | A London postman 's daughter whose grandparents lived next door contrasted the couple : ‘ oh she was a pet , but not him , he never gave us any love . ’ |