Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] us the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A chronological table can only give us the bare outlines of a life : one asks three questions . |
| 2 | We seem to have a breed of unadventurous promoters who can only offer us the likes of Grooverider and Carl Cox , making it difficult for talented newcomers to get the break they deserve . |
| 3 | This set will finally give us the numbers of vibrations of each symmetry species . |
| 4 | Yet this did not bring us the surrender we hoped for . |
| 5 | Basically , the methods we used , although tried and tested by other organisations did not bring us the 4,000 members we hoped to see by the end of 1992 . |
| 6 | It is argued here , that economics can not show us the correct policy choice ( as some economists would appear to claim ) ; yet it may help us to avoid a wrong , or overly costly , policy choice . |
| 7 | However , although we can keep this association in mind , it does not give us the whole picture . |
| 8 | It is a reminder that Chaucer and Langland do not give us the total picture . |
| 9 | But despite the undeniable tendency in financial markets towards a more laissez-faire environment , the term deregulation does not give us the full flavour of events . |
| 10 | Thousands of years of philosophy can not give us the answers to these questions . |
| 11 | ‘ The early try did not cost us the game , but the late penalty certainly did lose it for us . ’ |
| 12 | But maybe you 'll just sell us the collection and take some money for it ? |
| 13 | This gives us , if we know the date of the award ( which is easy to discover ) , the exact date of all the external fences or hedges , but it does not tell us the date of the internal fences on the bigger allotments . |
| 14 | The Government say that they can not tell us the value of the companies because the information is commercially sensitive . |
| 15 | The approach taken here does not afford us the luxury of such explanations : we must seek the reason for the peculiar distribution of the infinitive with perception verbs in the passive voice in the meaning expressed by the sentence . |
| 16 | For you will thus deny us the possibility of an additional Brother . |
| 17 | They can also tell us the correct name of a city . |
| 18 | Our sexless , clawless cats will now give us the perfect companionship we seek . |
| 19 | Will he now give us the figures for the whole period since 1979 , when the Government came to office ? |
| 20 | Er in use of other you should have the difference in survival between the patients that had more than twenty one or less than twenty one but actually it er you did n't show us the survival curves for |
| 21 | He did n't even give us the instructions , he wants it in in two weeks time ! |
| 22 | Volume numbers of Unix-based PC 's are n't there yet and Motif ca n't give us the cash returns we 're looking for with this product ’ . |
| 23 | But she did n't give us the satisfaction of raising her eyes to confirm the fact . |
| 24 | He said , but he said it does n't give us the excuse of not paying the invoices on time , and he said erm I have warned him for it this morning and he said he will process it , and he said the cheque will be in the post here on Monday . |
| 25 | You know , I wonder what would happen , if you went along to the Norfolk Street Police Station and said , will you please give us the name of our local policeman . |
| 26 | ‘ If they would n't tell us the first time , why should they do so now ? ’ |
| 27 | The final question Chairman , there 's a lot of er , facts here with no remarks against them under the premises and involvement like here on page three , number fifty nine , Mental Health Act , the National Assistance Act , Health and Safety at Work Act , it does n't tell us the type of premises or what in so I say , well what involvement do we have with the Mental Heath Act for example ? |
| 28 | She wo n't tell us the truth , but I know it , she wets herself , she does n't want it to show on the chairs in school |
| 29 | The earlier detection of prostatic cancers that have not spread will surely allow us the opportunity to treat and cure some of these patients . |
| 30 | We 're simply saying that if we 're going to build the vehicle over there with in excess of 60 per cent local content , you should n't charge us the 10 per cent duty . |