Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] us the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arrogance remains which brought us the poll tax , centralisation in Britain and isolation in Europe . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ How could anyone despise a country which gave us the Renaissance , Venice , Michelangelo ? ’ |
| 4 | We read in the papers of continuous victories on all fronts , which gave us the impression that the war would be over soon . |
| 5 | She showed us the map on the last day before it due in eight o'clock |
| 6 | ‘ The caretaker who showed us the place — and he does n't know my name either . ’ |
| 7 | The girl who taught us the song was called Isabel . |
| 8 | When the Secretary of State could bring himself to talk about his own legislation , we heard from him in effect an admission that the Government who brought us the poll tax are now bringing us a new poll tax . |
| 9 | It was the capitalist who gave us the steam engine . |
| 10 | Apart from Fedorov , that fellow who gave us the slip the other evening might turn up . ’ |
| 11 | The man who gave us the meson |
| 12 | She may be 82 , but the woman who gave us the breathalyser is still going strong . |
| 13 | Our customer certainly thought so — she gave us the cheque before we left ! |
| 14 | She gave us the breathalyser , and at Employment , challenged the trade unions with her document In Place of Strife . |
| 15 | But a few years ago , when they promised us the summer heat would last for months , she had it cut short . |
| 16 | we went in , you know , and that was the place an'all even the carpet that 's twelve hundred pound , cos they showed us the bill , you know er it 's been a it 's dirty and that but you know that wants , wants a good washing you know |
| 17 | And she rang up here when when they offered us the space , she rang up here and asked for me . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | As one unionist remarked , ‘ they gave us the key , but forbade us to open the door . ’ |
| 20 | Even though it cost us the life of a very good agent . ’ |
| 21 | entire market price even though it cost us the business at this point in time . |
| 22 | One incident that has stuck with me was when he played us the Queen of the Night 's aria from The Magic Flute , telling us that it was notoriously difficult for singers as the top note reached ‘ F in alt ’ . |
| 23 | He told us the story of the lapuna tree , the mother of the forest . |
| 24 | Sport , erm , I remember when I learned badminton , that the teacher would show us the high smash shot down , until we saw it being done properly , if he told us the theory of it without showing us what it looked like when it was done properly , we would n't have known what we were aiming at . |
| 25 | He showed us the research he had begun in Pembrokeshire , and we were so amazed at what he had discovered that we encouraged him to continue all over Wales . |
| 26 | He showed us the shewanakoo , a teaching tree for shamans that menstruating women must not pass . |
| 27 | Are these projectural figures which he showed us the cash flow chart over there looking like half a pyramid ? |
| 28 | He showed us the section , which comprised a core based on woodflour and phenol resin , while the surface was a more advanced phenolic resin applied to the face of the core in the form of ‘ Condensite varnish ’ stamped within the record press . |
| 29 | It took us the rest of the day to struggle back to our last bivouac , I remembered how Stephen Venables had dropped his rucksack , our stove and tent poles at 23,000 feet on Rimo 1 , and knew how the poor fellow felt : devastated . |
| 30 | ‘ And then he gave us the will and the other papers and he said to us , just before we toddled off to Morocco — ’ |