Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] us the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No politician could have bettered it : ‘ Experience has taught us the fallibility of the assertion that crime rates amongst those of West Indian origin are no higher than those of the population at large . ’ |
| 2 | And in so doing he has given us the joyrider 's equivalent of Neil Young 's ‘ Tonight 's The Night ’ , The Pogues ' ‘ Hell 's Ditch ’ and the Stones ' ‘ Exile On Main Street ’ — one of those awful black records to turn to when you 're feeling at your most morbid . |
| 3 | This development has given us the opportunity to organise our business to focus again on the changing needs of our customers . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've both been working so hard that this break has given us the opportunity for a second honeymoon , ’ he told her smoothly . |
| 5 | Now Michael White and John Gribbin have given us Stephen Hawking : a Life in Science , or rather Mr White has given us the life and Mr Gribbin the science ; the latter is awash with black holes , white dwarfs , protons , pulsars , quasars and quarks and is therefore no more comprehensible than Brief History ; also , what is one to make of a writer who speaks at one moment of ‘ tiny black holes ’ and the next of ‘ black holes which could eat solar systems for breakfast ’ ? |
| 6 | But through the Spirit , God has given us the ability to fulfil those requirements . |
| 7 | God means us to know that we are in Christ , and has given us the Spirit to assure us . |
| 8 | God means us to grow in Christlikeness , and has given us the Spirit to change us . |
| 9 | ‘ We are emerging from just about as difficult a period as I can remember in over 37 years in the business , but we are emerging with capital ratios still among the strongest of any of the world 's banks — ready and willing to lend for any viable purpose , and desperate for the chance to show both personal and corporate customers that the personal , flexible , friendly service which we have tried to give in the past and which I hope has given us the privilege of enjoying your company tonight — that same service is still very much on offer today . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Using natural gas has given us the flexibility to run domestic heating from the same boilers , plus leaving the opportunity to heat other outlying areas of the castle at a later stage . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The success of the over-haul has given us the incentive to improve the plant systems and procedures even further , ’ added Ian . |
| 12 | ‘ Your excellent work has given us the answer to that question , Watson . |
| 13 | Science has given us the technology , but do we have the right to use it ? |
| 14 | ‘ He has given us the feeling that we could not have been better prepared , ’ said Hockley after her opening round . |
| 15 | A full analysis has shown us the way forward and detailed programmes of personal development are being drawn up for everyone in Chemicals Manufacturing . |
| 16 | And then he tried to give us the slip and run off . |
| 17 | The assumptions we have been making so far about intensional relations and their combination and representation seem to deny us the chance of distinguishing two different structures here . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | If we 'd have gone for plc status first , then it would have given us the chance to work as a proper company . |
| 23 | should have given us the nudge . |
| 24 | Should have given us the money , money . |
| 25 | The exact origins of the ferret can only be guesswork , but either descendants of the polecat line or variations on the resultant interbreeding between stoats and polecats may have given us the ferret we know today . |
| 26 | 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 : |
| 27 | Walking pace often seems to give us the pulse of a movement ; and walking pace and heartbeat are often linked . |
| 28 | If we had gone on , our love would have brought us the death we secretly called up every time we embraced . |
| 29 | If we release you , you will try to expose us the way Ward was going to . ’ |
| 30 | In addition , we had a 1989 Bottlang to give us the location of the Visual Reporting Points which are used extensively all over the Continent . |