Example sentences of "[vb past] us some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember an American pilot with about 200 hours , a twin-engine Commercial and full Instrument Rating who visited us some years ago . |
| 2 | You recall what that minstrel told us some weeks back , Ralf ? |
| 3 | They called us in told us some information about there being no work , then left a pile of envelopes on a table telling us we had been made redundant . |
| 4 | You requisitioned us some transport . |
| 5 | In the second half of the evening Vic Smith showed us some scenes at Crich , the National Tramway museum , plus a couple of shots of trams abroad . |
| 6 | They showed us some shacks ( almost like dog kennels ) that they used to live in at the time of the Japanese occupation . |
| 7 | Russell showed us some slides from his collection and asked various questions e.g. ‘ Where is that ? ’ |
| 8 | One official said : ‘ It took us some time to explain away the opening ceremony episode . |
| 9 | ‘ It took us some time to trace Mr Maxwell since his business interests take him all over the States . |
| 10 | It took us some time to get to Kitumbeine and the district officer had knocked off . |
| 11 | It took us some time to reach the conclusion that this was ineffectual , for the class teachers , in copying the professional development teacher , had failed to adapt their teaching to the new context , creating a rather sterile repetition of the initial lesson … |
| 12 | This took us some time to do but it was a lot of fun . |
| 13 | These have now been cleaned up , but it took us some time to cope with this disgraceful state of affairs … the condition of these children , and the behaviour of many of the mothers , has completely dissipated the goodwill and welcome accorded to them by the Welsh people , whose hospitality is proverbial . |
| 14 | Sir Emmanuel once sent us some grouse from his own table but it was not to our taste -it had been cooked in port wine and laced with some spices . |
| 15 | They even sent us some French and Belgians , people like that , to work the land . |
| 16 | She sent us some notices of her recitals … ’ |
| 17 | BOB Phillips of Information Services at Risley sent us some motoring observations which we felt were worth sharing … |
| 18 | When Glen Baxter came for a signing session , we sold 80 copies of his book — a modest number perhaps for a shop of this size , but sales of his ‘ spin-off ’ goods amounted to a further 40% of the shop 's turnover that day and brought us some 16% over our sales target for that week . |
| 19 | I bought us some brackets . |
| 20 | and bought us some flowers |
| 21 | , that oh dear , you have to take this stuff with water it says , it is a horror one so I bought us some chocolate eclairs , have you got them ? |
| 22 | William Golding 's Lord of the Flies reminded us some years ago that children are far from immune to the virus of cruelty and irrationality that is latent in all human beings . |
| 23 | Elizabeth was brave and helped us ; her sweet smile gave us some happiness in the unhappy days after my mother 's death . |
| 24 | He gave us some money . |
| 25 | Tony was supposed to have been singing in a Black Sabbath ‘ reunion ’ in the States , which did n't happen for him in the end , but that gave us some breathing space . |
| 26 | You gave us , you gave us some dates on page three , item one hundred and twenty , thirteenth and fourteenth of December . |
| 27 | I remember Mrs Seaton gave us some mince pies and we ate them hot , sitting on the floor in front of the tree — just the two of us . |
| 28 | We devised a sort of Great Egg Race for the children — Rover gave us some materials which would normally have gone on the scrap heap , lent us a hall and judged the competition . |
| 29 | Some could n't say what they 'd been wearing themselves , but their female colleagues usually gave us some idea . ’ |
| 30 | The bank was usually very understanding , and generally gave us some leeway until we were able to sell something . |