Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] us the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet this did not bring us the surrender we hoped for . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | However , although we can keep this association in mind , it does not give us the whole picture . |
| 5 | It is a reminder that Chaucer and Langland do not give us the total picture . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Thousands of years of philosophy can not give us the answers to these questions . |
| 8 | ‘ The early try did not cost us the game , but the late penalty certainly did lose it for us . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Government say that they can not tell us the value of the companies because the information is commercially sensitive . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | But she did n't give us the satisfaction of raising her eyes to confirm the fact . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ If they would n't tell us the first time , why should they do so now ? ’ |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | 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 . |