Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] us [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most who drive cars would agree that does not make us expert mechanics . |
| 2 | Er , Chairman the , the only advice that I can give Dr on that point is to say that the county council is not letting them down er the funding for major road schemes is provided by central government and we make a contribution towards it but if central government do not give us permission to go ahead with the race road scheme in terms of a grant , then in fact it will not go ahead and in that situation they may be let down , that is their judgement and that should be reflected in the way they vote at parliamentary elections . |
| 3 | In studying Epicurus , Gassendi found confirmation for the embryonic idea of the Exercises , that sense-experience might give us something worthwhile and valuable even though it can not give us knowledge of necessary causes and of the natures of things . |
| 4 | If the five senses do not give us knowledge of reality ( as opposed to appearances ) , what does ? |
| 5 | Town councillor Fred Morris said : ‘ They could not give us hope . |
| 6 | I can not remember us jabber of journos enjoying a joke more . |
| 7 | I can not remember us jabber of journos enjoying a joke more . |
| 8 | If so , then where the Aristotelians go wrong is not so much that their procedures do not get us knowledge , as that they have a restricted or incorrect notion of what knowledge actually is . |
| 9 | But Weir 's music does not deny us beauty — she tends to re-organise conventional sounds in her own particular way . |
| 10 | And the county do n't send us copy letters , so , chair it does need sorting out as far as we 're concerned as well . |
| 11 | So I said well Janet 's a vegetarian I said , I ca n't give us lot roast lamb and give her you know . |
| 12 | But these things do n't bring us salvation . |
| 13 | Asked about comments by Mr Sugar that if Mr Venables went and Spurs topped the League early next season , people would soon forget him , she said : ‘ I ca n't see us being top of the League without Terry Venables to be honest , and we would n't forget him anyway . ’ |
| 14 | He wrote to his fellow-employees : ‘ It is unfortunate that business does n't allow us time to talk . |