Example sentences of "[v-ing] us [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ You are serving us the fermented grapes from Noah 's vines ? ’ |
2 | Thank you for calling us a perfect example . |
3 | Ah no , this is , I 'm just getting us a new pan . |
4 | ‘ Ninety-nine percent of vampires are real nice people , ’ he said , ‘ But we want to crack down on phoney vampires who are getting us a bad name . ’ |
5 | 1 Walk of Life ( POLICE ) Permission given : PolyGram are sending us a standard license to use , and will charge 50 . |
6 | Most companies have a lackadaisical approach to recruitment — as if they 're doing us a great favour . ’ |
7 | This needs to be incremented by the number of unused pages you are lacking , so in this example we need to add to our total global pages count , giving us a new required total of 4050 . |
8 | He brings Abraham down to earth with a bump , by giving us a subtle piece of comedy in which he features as something of a country bumpkin and gets , to use unsubtle language for a moment , ‘ right done ’ ! |
9 | And we did it first half , and when we were in possession , we were winning it in their sort of last third of the field , and that was giving us a great chance to create scoring chances and that 's what we 've done again today which has worked very well . |
10 | Rayleen helped too , or rather her uniform did , giving us a pseudo-official status which meant we could jump the queue . |
11 | I am sure that that former right hon. Member of this House could do a lot to help Northern Ireland by giving us a favourable response in the very near future , as I believe he will . |
12 | So giving us a total income for the year of about a hundred and twelve thousand pounds . |
13 | The high quality applications which we received , in addition to giving us a wide choice of suitable applicants , gave us incidentally an encouraging snap-shot of the future of the book industry . |
14 | Reg Marshall said : ‘ They are wasting their money giving us a wooden hut . |
15 | ‘ You , shut up , ’ Blanche cut in firmly , ‘ or I 'll arrest you for wasting police time by giving us a false alibi . ’ |
16 | But the weather deteriorated and the wind increased to around 30 miles-per-hour by the time Jack was out and shot a 76 , giving us a three-stroke advantage over the Bear . |
17 | Turning south overhead Dunster Castle we climbed through the cloud which had now formed giving us a restful trip home VMC on top . |
18 | At the end of the year , BP Oil had 17 service stations operating in Hungary , giving us a significant market share in the Budapest area . |
19 | ‘ He was giving us a bad time , though , till you came in . |
20 | But they were , at that particular time with the Germans , giving us a bad time in the Western Desert . |
21 | Perhaps the greatest contribution that fictional novels can make to human rights and changing attitudes is in giving us a timely reminder that all the statistics we 're constantly bombarded with actually constitute human lives , just as valuable as our own . |
22 | It might have been difficult for the headmaster of our school to believe that we were late because of a derailment , but fortunately a teacher of theology at the school , Don Cavalli , travelled on the tram every day , and he was able to explain what had happened , giving us a cast-iron alibi . |
23 | We have advanced ‘ moral careers ’ as another useful concept , this giving us a special purchase on that elusive quality : human agency . |
24 | as if that was not shocking enough , we later on found Derek giving us a learned address on the provenance and composition of La Bohème . |
25 | well — we are sixth from bottom and I guess Pool will be giving us a hard time at Anfield after loosing against Spurs . |
26 | ‘ They 're giving us the extra points ! |
27 | In supporting our own active participation in , and control over our own affairs , such people are giving us the right kind of help . |
28 | Modern performers , failing to appreciate the tremendous range of tempos covered by these dances [ minuets ] , are giving us the bottom half only . |
29 | At the end of each section there is a summary of the main events of each of the legs showing us the different problems of all 23 entries . |
30 | He seemed very intent on showing us the precise spot where Mr Marr 's body had lain . |