Example sentences of "[verb] we [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could she give us just a handful of examples of people who were moved from geriatric beds into the private sector in the early stages of the development of the policy and were given the assurance that she says was publicly given that the Government had no intention of meeting fees , however high ? |
| 2 | Erm and possibly the installation of mini roundabouts at the minor junctions erm would give us quite a lot of benefit . |
| 3 | For it is becoming increasingly clear that a semantic theory alone can give us only a proportion , and perhaps only a small if essential proportion , of a general account of language understanding . |
| 4 | i i perhaps in terms of if you think of it in terms of like the employer of the day , Well we 've paid an external trainer to come along , it 's actually costing us quite a lot of money . |
| 5 | You know , and you , you then have that sheet , and how much is my time worth , and how much is his time worth , or her time worth , and you can say , you know , these interruptions are actually costing us quite a lot of month . |
| 6 | At first they came to visit us once a month but then the visits became few and far between . |
| 7 | John Heminges of the Queen 's Men taught us both a lot . |
| 8 | " So am I , Fiddy , so am I. Oh , go and get us both a glass of brandy , woman . |
| 9 | Studies of simple brains like that of Aplysia tell us quite a lot . |
| 10 | It certainly lost us quite a lot of Conservative votes . |
| 11 | ‘ It will take us about an hour to get there . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , the very fact that an explanation should have been created at all tells us quite a lot about the way that the human mind works . |
| 13 | This distribution , considered along with within-group variability , tells us quite a lot about the relationship of group scores to individual scores , a matter of some interest to sociolinguists . |
| 14 | We have to put a shelf mark on the books so that we can shelve the book , but that tells us quite a lot about the subject , and if you start putting those three things together the librarian , as manager of his library , can start to put all this information together — in fact , the computer digests it for him — to give him an overview of how effective his operation is , when he should be buying extra copies , when perhaps he should be thinking of not buying quite so much , or being a little more selective . |
| 15 | We have to put a shelf mark on the book so that we can shelve the book , but that tells us quite a lot about the subject . |
| 16 | To be able to create different effects by changing plants around is exciting , and it also tends to teach us quite a lot about the relationships in spacing of plants , of different shapes and habits of growth . |
| 17 | ‘ Your father does owe us rather a lot of money , you know , will your cousin meet the obligations ? ’ |
| 18 | It took us over an hour the following morning to get through this pass , a notorious place for ambushes . |
| 19 | The second is that from the Cherwell boathouse to the point where the tragedy occurred is a distance of over two and a half miles , including a strenuous portage , and took us nearly an hour . |
| 20 | It took us about an hour by bus to get into the Central Market but in the last year we were there , the public transport system collapsed and we had to go home in trucks just as if we were cattle . |
| 21 | I think it took us about an hour and a half to get home ! |
| 22 | ‘ It took us quite a while to persuade other people just how much tennis in general could benefit , especially in those countries where Government grants are dependent on Olympic membership , if tennis was once again a member of the Olympic family . |
| 23 | ‘ Why do n't you fix us both a drink while I 'm trying to find the answer to the problem ? ’ he added , stripping off his tie and undoing the top buttons of his shirt . |
| 24 | They sent us nearly a box full of it . |
| 25 | Altogether this little girl has cost us quite a lot of money . |
| 26 | I gave us both a refill . |
| 27 | Thelma gave us both a refill , shaking her head . |
| 28 | That was the general feeling but he did , he gave us about an hour and a half . |
| 29 | ‘ You could save us both a lot of trouble by handing over the papers without any fuss . ’ |
| 30 | It gives us also an indication of where those flows went . |