Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] us the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could it , could people please stop conferring a minute , er , that is actually the government , saying that they no longer gon na give grants , their going to give us the right to borrow , and are actually encouraging us to do it . |
| 2 | So how we 're going to actually interpret that and er act on that here in Manchester and we set out our against er er to achieve that on the simple basis of quality and you 've heard enough about quality over the last two years to not be too surprised that that 's what we 've said was going to give us the cutting edge and perhaps put us in the leading position here in Manchester . |
| 3 | What , in order to decide whether they 're going to give us the contract what they have asked us to do is prepare a thirty minute radio , sorry thirty second radio presentation and we will re , record for them and they will hear , which we want to emphasise based on how good that was whether they want to take the contract out with us . |
| 4 | Although we 're working er all the time to keep security as tight as we can at the John Radcliffe , er the scheme is going to give us the ability to challenge members of staff , legitimate members of staff , as we currently do , er and they will then have to provide , produce the card , er so we can then assess whether they are or are not a member of staff . |
| 5 | As we set out in the truck which was going to take us the eight miles to Oakington , I was conscious that for once I was really looking my absolute best . |
| 6 | They are narrative , and tell us of a situation , or prepare us for some significant message : Once having told us the story , set the mood , and prepared us for the shout of a choir of angels , Handel could paint a triumphant musical fresco with just a few poetic words : |
| 7 | But we er are welcoming the fact that there is a recognition of the rising population of Wales er in giving us this er this additional seat er primarily the additional population has not come in industrial South Wales which er er which er people think of perhaps as the most typically Welsh area , it 's actually in two counties of Clwyd and Dyfed that are erm growing most rapidly because of lifestyle migration , retirement migration erm into those two areas and that is why the additional seat , if you can put it that way , er takes from all the other four of course , is is the mid and West Wales seat which has been compared by the honourable member for Cornwall er tonight and it has only got a population of four hundred and one thousand but on the other hand of course it is such an extensive seat because the population sparsity in that area is much , much worse than even in Cornwall and therefore it is going to stretch from South of Milford Haven to the Llanrwst area really within probably twenty miles of the North Wales coast , it 's a who it 's the whole of two counties plus one additional very badly populated constituency erm in in the county of Gwynedd , an awkward constituency but one that we are certainly looking forward fighting and winning to give us the five out of five er now that er the boundaries are going through tonight and obviously it 's all in line really er to look at the other , the third order of course , the question of the registration of overseas voters in the nineteen ninety two election overseas voters had their first opportunity to participate in Westminster elections . |
| 8 | And erm and Miss asked why we were n't friends any more and we goes well she lied and you know , she splits up most people by doing that cos they were trying to tell us the truth and we would n't listen . |