Example sentences of "[verb] us [indef pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he is familiar , and he could win us a gold medal in that symbol of absolutism , the 100 metres sprint ( he could , theoretically , win us one in the 200 metres , but that is far less likely , far less mythopoeic ) . |
| 2 | ‘ They will give us nothing without a problem on Saturday and every mistake we make will be punished more quickly and more heavily than any Five Nations opponents would manage . ’ |
| 3 | It 's high time the label told us something of the state of a pot plant 's native habitat , as well as which windowsill to grow it on . |
| 4 | Bite One : ‘ The Secretary of State told us about the silver lining — he told us nothing about the dark clouds on the horizon . ’ |
| 5 | The different types of tenure marked out the leading characteristics of the different forms of land holding known to the law ; but they told us nothing of the nature and incidents of the various interests which those who held by these tenures might have in the land . |
| 6 | ‘ He chose to favour us one at a time and the others were left out in the cold . |
| 7 | There we were met by a Ministry official and an interpreter , who showed us something of the city and were very pleasant and chatty . |
| 8 | So Libet 's experiments tell us something interesting about the information processing going on in the subject 's brain but they tell us nothing about the temporal relationship between physical events — either inside or outside the brain — and conscious experiences . |
| 9 | Second , the new schemes of metazoan phylogeny tell us nothing about the actual anatomical and functional transitions between related phyla . |
| 10 | However , these quantitative data tell us nothing about the quality or importance of the relationship . |
| 11 | In the second place , the correlations that are produced are merely statements about associations , and tell us nothing about the direction of cause and effect . |
| 12 | Statements ( 5 ) , ( 6 ) and ( 7 ) , unlike statements ( 1 ) , ( 2 ) , ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) , tell us nothing about the world . |
| 13 | Erm does the fact of erm using the aircraft to er provide a platform for these systems , er tell us something about a change in view about the role or operating concept of the aircraft ? |
| 14 | Does n't Mrs Dennison 's natural repugnance tell us something about the morality of the act ? ’ |
| 15 | Letters to the editor , including agony columns , tell us something about the concerns people have , or at least which of their concerns are considered by editors and agony aunties to be suitable for publication . |
| 16 | The remains of sheilings tell us something about the pattern of agriculture and the temporary removal of the people in summer to tend their cattle in the hills . |
| 17 | The remains of sheilings tell us something about the pattern of agriculture and the temporary removal of the people in summer to tend their cattle in the hills . |
| 18 | This system was to be the predecessor of the various experiments under the Tudors to exercise special control in the North , measures which not only reflect the problems of governing a region remote from the centre of public power but also tell us something about the tensions between a local aristocracy and the Crown . |
| 19 | Tell us something about the provisions in your day . |
| 20 | His 70 appearances were only improved over that period by the evergreen John McCormick , goalkeeper John Jackson and the much younger Mel Blyth , and they tell us something of the fitness and sheer determination of the man . |
| 21 | After 1400 , it has been noted , lawyers in the Parlement of Paris consistently tried to show the respectability of their soldier-clients by underlining their service to the king and the public good : ‘ … a longuement servy le roy ’ ; ‘ … tient frontier contre les enemis ’ ; ‘ … il a esté grevé car lui estant en expedicion pour la chose publique ’ are phrases which , when used regularly , tell us something of the values of the society in which they are uttered , and of the soldier 's role in it . |
| 22 | Does Jesus being a man tell us anything about the nature of God ? |
| 23 | To be sure , human behaviour can be , and is , studied from the outside , but such a science — behavioural science — tells us nothing about the psyche and the person 's understanding of his experience of his existence . |
| 24 | It may be of use to compare the regional groupings of brooch types with those areas which are revealed as high consumers of imported luxury goods ; whilst such a correlation tells us nothing about the mode of production of the brooches , it does provide some articulation to the distribution maps . |
| 25 | Of course , this tells us nothing about the effectiveness of these efforts . |
| 26 | Moreover , an explicit claim to multiple points of view tells us nothing about the actual practice of using them . |
| 27 | On its own this tells us nothing about the market for handheld media . |
| 28 | This is simply a geographical expression which tells us nothing about the people who live there . |
| 29 | This tells us nothing about the degree of harmony in the village — everyone might be at each other 's throats — but it does indicate that within the village there is a reasonably close-knit social pattern , rather than a disparate group of individuals who happen , coincidentally , to live in the same locality . |
| 30 | such a vertical representation tells us nothing about the relationships that go on between the centre and field offices . |