Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] us the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The arrival of another SeaCat vessel in May certainly has not hit us the way some people expected . |
| 2 | The hon. Member for Sedgefield ( Mr. Blair ) has huffed and puffed , but he has not told us the Labour party 's position on a single proposal contained in the Green Paper . |
| 3 | This afternoon , he has treated the House to an extraordinary collection of half-truths and inaccuracies , but he has not told us the Labour party 's attitude to the proposals that I identified in the statement . |
| 4 | Not within fifteen minutes you 'll to but at the end of this session you will be able to process how to tell us the five main points five main benefits of a certain policy . |
| 5 | The micro-processor , enabling previously labour-intensive work to be carried out by robots , will give us greater leisure ; the leisure industry is labour-intensive ; therefore , paradoxically , instead of reducing the number of jobs , the micro-processor has actually given us the potential to create more careers than it destroys — but only if we plan the leisure it gives us in a comprehensive and professional way . |
| 6 | Yet this did not bring us the surrender we hoped for . |
| 7 | Basically , the methods we used , although tried and tested by other organisations did not bring us the 4,000 members we hoped to see by the end of 1992 . |
| 8 | ‘ The early try did not cost us the game , but the late penalty certainly did lose it for us . ’ |
| 9 | It is a reminder that Chaucer and Langland do not give us the total picture . |
| 10 | Er in use of other you should have the difference in survival between the patients that had more than twenty one or less than twenty one but actually it er you did n't show us the survival curves for |
| 11 | But she did n't give us the satisfaction of raising her eyes to confirm the fact . |
| 12 | He was n't er able to be so positive as that , but he did certainly give us the impression that er that he 'd listened very carefully to what we had to say . |
| 13 | ‘ If you had only given us the Law : Dayenu ! … |
| 14 | If the police had not given us the benefit of the doubt , I should have been more than a little proud to go to jail in his company , together with the Cup . |
| 15 | It was clear that Holmes ' cleverness with the telegram had not given us the proof we needed . |
| 16 | This gives us , if we know the date of the award ( which is easy to discover ) , the exact date of all the external fences or hedges , but it does not tell us the date of the internal fences on the bigger allotments . |
| 17 | However , although we can keep this association in mind , it does not give us the whole picture . |
| 18 | But despite the undeniable tendency in financial markets towards a more laissez-faire environment , the term deregulation does not give us the full flavour of events . |
| 19 | The approach taken here does not afford us the luxury of such explanations : we must seek the reason for the peculiar distribution of the infinitive with perception verbs in the passive voice in the meaning expressed by the sentence . |
| 20 | ‘ I know you 've always told us the truth — but what are you talking about ? ’ asked Rose . |
| 21 | Tories , long , short and tall , queued with the stoicism that had once made us the envy of the world . |
| 22 | He said , but he said it does n't give us the excuse of not paying the invoices on time , and he said erm I have warned him for it this morning and he said he will process it , and he said the cheque will be in the post here on Monday . |
| 23 | The final question Chairman , there 's a lot of er , facts here with no remarks against them under the premises and involvement like here on page three , number fifty nine , Mental Health Act , the National Assistance Act , Health and Safety at Work Act , it does n't tell us the type of premises or what in so I say , well what involvement do we have with the Mental Heath Act for example ? |
| 24 | I understand that you wish to run the tape on UNIX on Sun/3 , but you have not told us the tape density you need . |
| 25 | ‘ They have n't called us the United Nations team yet , but after Tuesday I think they might , ’ admits captain Michael Patton . |