Example sentences of "[vb pp] us a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the dangers in observation are perhaps implicit in the word , and observation can all too easily become realism , and realism is as Piaget has reminded us a kind of confusion between the inner and the outer — a fixing in the object something which is an activity of the thinking subject . |
| 2 | And his quality show earned the praise of manager Steve Gritt , who said : ‘ That is the best all-round performance I 've seen from him and for the second game in succession he 's earned us a draw . ’ |
| 3 | name ; is a very respectable cook , so we make occasional trips to the supermarket and to the open market , and then eat at home in the evening , although we can also go out to a restaurant for a meal if we want , as someone has now kindly lent us a car . |
| 4 | You 've just made us a cup of tea have you ? |
| 5 | Well , he 's saved us a bit of trouble , I suppose . " |
| 6 | He 's saved us a lot of money in one way , but he do n't pay the wage |
| 7 | This victory has secured us a quarter final place in the Fraser Trophy which will be played at the end of February . |
| 8 | I never thought I 'd say that a sneak thief had done us a favour . |
| 9 | McGrath said : ‘ It could have done us a lot of good to have been beaten so heavily at Coventry . |
| 10 | Ev well I do n't know about this year mind but every Christmas I worked there she never paid us double time for anything over Christmas , she was always bought us a present . |
| 11 | I would have drawn us , drawn us a toaster and some toast really . |
| 12 | U From Back Page might even have got us a goal . ’ |
| 13 | Want to know do n't they and they have n't even got us a biscuit . |
| 14 | Last year 's alumni survey has told us a lot . |
| 15 | Not to mention our hospitaller who may have told us a pack of lies . ’ |
| 16 | Said Bill : ‘ Resources are scarce and the information cassettes and videos have helped us a lot . |
| 17 | ‘ Peace ’ is now just another kind of hostility and no-one has offered us a word for what peace used to mean . |
| 18 | Our children had brought us a lot of happiness . |
| 19 | What we 've been through in the last few years has brought us a lot closer , and that 's part of the reason I 'm getting out of the rat race of international cricket … certainly for a few years , anyway . |
| 20 | but he 's , he 's brought us a lot of pleasure has n't he ? |
| 21 | For the purposes of the review , and to allow us to really put the B-1R through its paces , Bluebridge Music have additionally loaned us a brand new example of the HE ( horn loaded ) series 4x10 SVT speaker cab . |
| 22 | and , well no it 's not sociable but because you come out and it , it gets you away from here because you 've got so many things on during the day you want some time to yourself and because you , we 've found us a place that we wo n't get busted and we know we wo n't we go in and have it but I can guarantee that if we were , like walking into this room , if it was full of smoke it would put me off straight away . |
| 23 | They 've sponsored us a consultancy , |
| 24 | And RZB 's willingness to find flexible solutions to trading problems have gained us a reputation for business without barriers . |
| 25 | You 've asked us a lot about what Governors can do and what Councillors can do , it 's teachers that make a school and schools are going to be excellent if the teachers and heads of faculty in those schools are excellent , and we 've got lots of those in Banbury . |
| 26 | The case has caused us a lot of grief . ’ |
| 27 | that 's why he 's had the paper out , must of cost us a fortune in phone calls |
| 28 | ‘ We are indebted to Dr Hutchinson and to Brett , otherwise this would have cost us a lot of money , ’ he said . |
| 29 | But many archbishops were delighted by the excuse to go on pilgrimage to Rome ; and one of the first to benefit from the custom was Sigeric , archbishop of Canterbury ( 990 — 4 ) , who has left us a kind of diary of his visit — first of the churches in Rome which a pilgrim had especially to visit and to pray in , and then of the stages on his long journey back to Canterbury . |
| 30 | The accursed history of autocracy has left us a legacy of tremendous estrangement between the working classes of the various nationalities oppressed by that autocracy . |