Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] us the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let me not forget to mention the bakery in Waipukurau , which served us the most magnificent cream ( real cream ! ) buns filled with delicious real fruit conserve — wow ! |
| 2 | The arrogance remains which brought us the poll tax , centralisation in Britain and isolation in Europe . |
| 3 | His muscular prose — at its best it has the insistent rhythm if a middleweight boxer pounding the heavy bag — with its imaginative flourishes , was perfectly suited to the age which brought us the utterly modern talents of George Best , Rod Laver , Jack Niklaus , Jim Clark , Pele and Jackie Stewart . |
| 4 | To re-finance ourselves in order to finish the task , we arranged a Flexible Businessloan with a two year capital repayment holiday which gave us the breathing space we needed . |
| 5 | It comes to us from the age which gave us the Great Charter , and founded the House of Commons . |
| 6 | Another came from Le Corbusier and pre-war German and Dutch architecture , which gave us the LCC 's Roehampton Lane ( Alton West ) Estate ; this latter style tended to predominate in the 1950s . |
| 7 | We read in the papers of continuous victories on all fronts , which gave us the impression that the war would be over soon . |
| 8 | ‘ How could anyone despise a country which gave us the Renaissance , Venice , Michelangelo ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ What lost us the match was a rush of blood to the head when they had the man sent off . |