Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] us a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until we remove the present government from Westminster , then Europe is going to struggle to do us a great deal of good . |
| 2 | O nine O four six four one six four one any calls about dogs or er any other sort of animal you want to give us a ring call us now . |
| 3 | If you want to give us a donation that 's entirely welcome . |
| 4 | At Saatchi and Saatchi , where young men earn large sums for dreaming up such things , someone called Tim promised to send us a ‘ mini-proof ’ . |
| 5 | They knew we did n't get on , and they never tried to get us a flat or nowt , so when I got out of prison with him I was just on my own . |
| 6 | THAT was a really important break for us , and helped to push us a few more rungs up the ladder . |
| 7 | ‘ You promised to show us a way of relieving overcrowding . |
| 8 | ‘ It 'ud do to buy us a few drinks with , Sam , ’ a woman called from the far end of the smoke-blackened room . |
| 9 | ‘ She came to wish us a safe journey , ’ Ranulf replied sarcastically . |
| 10 | ( Goodman , 1965 , p. 17 , p. 23 , cf. p. 14 ; Ayer , 1972 , pp. 120 f. , cf. p 118 ; Lewis , 1973 , p. 1 ; Mackie , 1973 , p. 64 ) As a look at the philosophy of language and its analyses of " meaning " or its uses of " semantics " quickly shows , much more would need to be done to give us a well-defined problem , but let us not linger . |
| 11 | going to miss us a great opportunity to learn how to do it right |
| 12 | Yeah , I mean that 's not going to miss us a particular slot in the in the publication . |
| 13 | It 's going to pull us a little bit closer to the rest of the pack but we have still got a good squad . ’ |
| 14 | Perhaps you 'd like to buy us a drink … ’ |
| 15 | And they are , they are interested in cyclists but from what I could make out reading this they 're not really going to help us a great deal . |
| 16 | No because we would n't have got that fifteen hundred pounds they had n't agreed to do us a service . |
| 17 | In two days we reached Tezpur , and again found kind ladies from the tea estates waiting to give us a meal and a bath — bliss indeed ! |
| 18 | ‘ Mr Oakley tells me that you 're going to give us a hand . |
| 19 | Having set it up , he said he was going to give us a demonstration coaching session . |
| 20 | But does this mean that our friends from Dixieland — the Intelligence Service lived south of the river ‘ — are going to give us a hint of what they 're up to these days ? ’ |
| 21 | He slid off the stool and Frear said , ‘ Are n't you going to give us a tune ? ’ |
| 22 | He 's been here several times before , and er , we do look forward to having another interesting morning with you , and I understand that er , you 're going to give us a musical morning , this morning , and er , |
| 23 | Col. Savill has offered to give us a slide show |
| 24 | Okay David , thanks very much indeed for your time and for talking to us today but er if you have a view on that you might like to give us a call . |
| 25 | Erm Would anyone like to give us a plot resume in Jane Eyre ? |
| 26 | Oi , you lot , you 've got to give us a bit of because he 's the youngest here , |
| 27 | In a way , it was n't a gamble as he was relatively young at 26 , and it was n't going to cost us a great deal . |
| 28 | That is going to take us a bit of time to put into place , but we 're , you know we 're moving just about as fast as our legs can carry us . |
| 29 | ‘ Going to make us a rope . ’ |
| 30 | you going to make us a cup of tea ? |