Example sentences of "[pron] gave us the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ How could anyone despise a country which gave us the Renaissance , Venice , Michelangelo ? ’ |
| 3 | We read in the papers of continuous victories on all fronts , which gave us the impression that the war would be over soon . |
| 4 | It was the capitalist who gave us the steam engine . |
| 5 | Apart from Fedorov , that fellow who gave us the slip the other evening might turn up . ’ |
| 6 | The man who gave us the meson |
| 7 | She may be 82 , but the woman who gave us the breathalyser is still going strong . |
| 8 | Our customer certainly thought so — she gave us the cheque before we left ! |
| 9 | She gave us the breathalyser , and at Employment , challenged the trade unions with her document In Place of Strife . |
| 10 | But anyway we , they must have been so impressed by the , the order that they got , that they gave us the agency for Galashiels and Selkirk for the Austin . |
| 11 | As one unionist remarked , ‘ they gave us the key , but forbade us to open the door . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ And then he gave us the will and the other papers and he said to us , just before we toddled off to Morocco — ’ |
| 13 | As a memorial of his sacrifice for us he gave us the sacrament of the Eucharist to be the food by which we share here on earth in the blessings of the world to come . |
| 14 | Surely , do we know if we receive him and believe in his name and he gave us the power to become |
| 15 | Instead he gave us the Boredom Offensive . |
| 16 | ‘ It gave us the time we needed to get in here . ’ |
| 17 | He did no more than chip that one in as well , and it gave us the lead . |
| 18 | It gave us the violin — an instrument which ( it has been said ) ‘ with its vibrato manner of performance , in distinction from the older viol family , emulates and even surpasses the human voice' — indeed the whole violin family with viola and cello . |