Example sentences of "[verb] us [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Douglas McIldoon , of the EC , said : ‘ This document demonstrates that you have come a long way in this region and it will give us great pleasure in working with you to make it happen . ’ |
| 2 | Pocket Book 's big summer read is from a promotable young actress , Lucinda Edmonds , with Lovers and Players ; Marsha Hunt does n't quite give us another Joy in her new one , Free ( Penguin ) , but her fans wo n't know that until they 've bought it . |
| 3 | Playing the Tory game does not work in securing power , and would n't do us any good in the long term even if it did . |
| 4 | The ‘ swing ’ from Labour to Liberal Democrat was 6.4pc , enough to win us both seats in the Willington West ward . |
| 5 | It was the happening that we Hastings children had dreaded ever since our Junior School Headmaster , who also taught Physics , had told us one day in class . |
| 6 | He referred to plans to develop social programmes and infrastructure projects as a ‘ vision that I hope will sustain Hong Kong during the present period of uncertainty and give us all confidence in our ability to overcome whatever problems confront us ’ . |
| 7 | Give us more freedom in the afternoon if we need to go into Wokingham instead , do you want to go that way for a change or this , or through the woods ? |
| 8 | Bertrams by their generous returns allowance also take away some of our worries and so give us more confidence in making subscriptions , which include Reed titles . |
| 9 | Presently he came out and handed us ten pounds in gold and a cheque for ninety pounds from Coutts 's Bank . |
| 10 | The Sandinistas may also use the visit to discuss US foreign policy in Central America , and the question of whether improved Soviet-US relations could lead to a lifting of the US economic embargo on Nicaragua . |
| 11 | We had persuaded our landladies to give us packed lunches in place of the statutory second meal . |
| 12 | US President George Bush on July 31 , 1989 , vetoed a bill passed by Congress which would have set restrictions on the joint development of the FSX fighter , Japan 's next generation of attack aircraft [ see p. 36619 ; 36651 ] , on the grounds that joint development would have enabled the Japanese to overtake US technological superiority in aerospace and would have provided the means whereby Japan could develop its own commercial aircraft . |
| 13 | I guess Wilko will try him as a central defender — thus giving us some speed in the back ; if he gets a contract he will be a perfect match for David O'Leary IMHO . |
| 14 | We we he 's giving us free advertising in there for issue anyway |
| 15 | Erm I do n't think that the poli ha policy has caused us any problems in the past and I do n't think the policy as proposed now will cause us any problems either . |
| 16 | Elizabeth was brave and helped us ; her sweet smile gave us some happiness in the unhappy days after my mother 's death . |
| 17 | These general classifications , of course with some cases of overlap , take us some way in the analysis of groups based on a single art or on two or three related arts . |
| 18 | To help a friend , such as John Drummond , would always , as Mrs. Campbell remarked , ‘ gain us more friends in his way who have votes and show we do n't drop or forget a man who dos to the outmost of their power to serve our interest ’ . |
| 19 | Fujimori , justifying the air force action , said that the C-130 , one of many used to support US anti-drug operations in the northern Upper Huallaga Valley ( the world 's largest single source of coca ) , carried no markings and failed to respond to radio and visual warnings . |
| 20 | We are also indebted to the Minister and the Whips for allowing us adequate time in which to adduce our arguments . |
| 21 | ‘ The referee could have given us two penalties in the first half but the one he did give did n't look much from where I was in the dug-out . |
| 22 | My father , six kids on a Friday night , we used to put a bucket of water on the hot sink , on the old gas stove and my father used to bath us six kids in front of the fire . |