Example sentences of "[verb] us [noun] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In studying Epicurus , Gassendi found confirmation for the embryonic idea of the Exercises , that sense-experience might give us something worthwhile and valuable even though it can not give us knowledge of necessary causes and of the natures of things . |
| 2 | So , the play of party politics at the ballot box may give us interludes of constitutional peace , but we can not escape the fact that the British constitution is still up for grabs , in politics , and on the agenda for change . |
| 3 | The information we gather will give us months of future material to work from — there will be opportunities both indoors and out to expand our notes into larger works if we wish . |
| 4 | I mean we hardly went into another shop and yet , you see , we have a young chappie like yourself who comes to the Guild once every year and shows us slides of old Walsall , Walsall Wood , Aldridge , the local area , and he said I 'm not very good Ruth at talking but he he 'd got the slides you know , and it , it used to end up with me doing the commentary on Walsall Wood , because you stand on the of Walsall Wood , which is there now , and your Co-op was right on the corner which is why I call it the corner store and you see people congregated there , people met there and when I 'd been accused of the , we 'd been at the college or at other conferences and why ca n't we get Guild members today , well that was the breeding ground your shop , you see . |
| 5 | Telescopes such as the orbiting Einstein X-ray observatory and the Merlin array of radio telescopes centred on Jodrell Bank give us views of celestial objects as detailed as optical telescopes can show ( New Scientist , vol 93 , p 720 and vol 96 , p 442 ) . |
| 6 | We used to get help from the Co-ops because they used to give us lists of new members and we used to be able to canvass those . |
| 7 | Servitors took our wet clothing and served us cups of mulled wine , followed by earthenware bowls full of a meaty soup which warmed our hands and removed the chill from our stomachs . |
| 8 | A serving wench brought us flagons of watered beer . |
| 9 | This saved us hours of back-breaking work ( though we did lose some concrete in odd places ) . |