Example sentences of "[verb] us [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will give us exactly the colour we want , especially if we dovetail them with the bassoons and thus make use of the deep low notes of the second horn . |
| 2 | A rapid look at The Times newspaper for this Monday in April might give us just the slightest inkling of the minutiae of English life on a most ordinary of ordinary days : Dickens was completing David Copperfield ; Bass 's India Pale Ale could be had for 33s. per 18-gallon cask ; Hampshire Breakfast Bacon would cost you 7½d. by the half side , while Captain Reid 's ‘ Walls End ’ coal was 19s. a ton . |
| 3 | In the Theatral Area and the West Court , raised linear pathways of well-made slabs pass through open areas of irregular cobbling , and show us clearly the main lines of movement through these courtyards : they emphasize the North Entrance and West Porch of the temple as important destinations . |
| 4 | Rather than being a fair reflection of those behaviours objectively causing us collectively the most avoidable suffering , criminal law categories are artful , creative constructs designed to criminalize only some victimizing behaviours , usually those more frequently committed by the relatively powerless , and to exclude others , usually those frequently committed by the powerful against subordinates . |
| 5 | Gordon showed us clearly the path of forgiveness , and gave us the strength to forgive from his experience . |
| 6 | Then , both quickly and suddenly , he turned to the Reverend-who was now holding before him a photograph , of which he allowed us only the briefest glimpse . |
| 7 | Our lord taught us to pray er er give us this day our daily bread but we all know when we 've read our commentaries that the word epusios means of tomorrow , give us today the bread of tomorrow . |
| 8 | Notify us immediately the claim , the accident , the illness , or whatever , |
| 9 | Nor have there been any informal jolly gatherings when the daily toil of pressing the flesh is over : Mr Kinnock wandering back among the press party , glass of whisky in hand , letting his ( metaphorical ) hair down a little , tipping us just the hint of a wink that this is all just a great game . |
| 10 | ‘ If the Scottish Secretary breaches the written undertaking he gave us then the next letter he should write is his resignation letter . ’ |
| 11 | Diffuse X-ray diffraction , by contrast , gives us only the local arrangement about the average atom . |
| 12 | Unfortunately they leave us little the wiser about its essential nature . |
| 13 | This , no doubt , was what enabled Lewis , in telling the story of his life , to separate the departments of his life , telling us only the ‘ spiritual ’ story and leaving that part of himself which Newman would have called ‘ the concrete man ’ hidden in shadows . |
| 14 | Derek was telling us only the last time he was home all about his Mate up there on the Rigs . |
| 15 | Although these are of critical importance , it is not particularly obvious how either a free market in broadcasting or ideological diversity in the media would make us any the wiser about Iran , Iraq or the Lebanon . |
| 16 | Finally , Bajazeth offers us perhaps the most complete view of Tamburlaine because these two men are in some ways very similar , and so bring out the true side of Tamburlaine 's character . |
| 17 | Words that will express something of the deep complexity that makes us precisely the way we are , from the momentary effect of the barometer to the force that created men distinct from trees . |