Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] we the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you had only given us the Law : Dayenu ! … |
| 2 | This was made explicit by Louis Agassiz , a Swiss who had in 1840 recognized marks of glaciation all over northern Europe and thus given us the idea of ice ages . |
| 3 | If the police had not given us the benefit of the doubt , I should have been more than a little proud to go to jail in his company , together with the Cup . |
| 4 | It was clear that Holmes ' cleverness with the telegram had not given us the proof we needed . |
| 5 | I understand that you wish to run the tape on UNIX on Sun/3 , but you have not told us the tape density you need . |
| 6 | The hon. Member for Sedgefield ( Mr. Blair ) has huffed and puffed , but he has not told us the Labour party 's position on a single proposal contained in the Green Paper . |
| 7 | This afternoon , he has treated the House to an extraordinary collection of half-truths and inaccuracies , but he has not told us the Labour party 's attitude to the proposals that I identified in the statement . |
| 8 | ‘ The arrival of another SeaCat vessel in May certainly has not hit us the way some people expected . |
| 9 | He said he 's at the home and everything 's going alright and he 's saying he 's already sent us the , the , the invitation , but I have no invitation |
| 10 | Tories , long , short and tall , queued with the stoicism that had once made us the envy of the world . |
| 11 | ‘ I know you 've always told us the truth — but what are you talking about ? ’ asked Rose . |
| 12 | It 's also given us the new agreement on working time which our own government have tried to work against consistently for the last two years , they now say they 'll challenge it in Europe 's Court of Justice , well what they seem to forget is it 's got ta come back to Parliament for a second reading yet and they 've created such ill feeling in the Parliament and among the Commission , that it 's likely to be strengthened , we 're gon na end up with a strengthened agreement on working time by the autumn of this year . |
| 13 | ‘ They have n't called us the United Nations team yet , but after Tuesday I think they might , ’ admits captain Michael Patton . |
| 14 | The micro-processor , enabling previously labour-intensive work to be carried out by robots , will give us greater leisure ; the leisure industry is labour-intensive ; therefore , paradoxically , instead of reducing the number of jobs , the micro-processor has actually given us the potential to create more careers than it destroys — but only if we plan the leisure it gives us in a comprehensive and professional way . |
| 15 | Why have they never given us the understanding of how to contact this inner voice ? |