Example sentences of "[verb] us [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A rapid look at The Times newspaper for this Monday in April might give us just the slightest inkling of the minutiae of English life on a most ordinary of ordinary days : Dickens was completing David Copperfield ; Bass 's India Pale Ale could be had for 33s. per 18-gallon cask ; Hampshire Breakfast Bacon would cost you 7½d. by the half side , while Captain Reid 's ‘ Walls End ’ coal was 19s. a ton . |
| 2 | In the Theatral Area and the West Court , raised linear pathways of well-made slabs pass through open areas of irregular cobbling , and show us clearly the main lines of movement through these courtyards : they emphasize the North Entrance and West Porch of the temple as important destinations . |
| 3 | Then , both quickly and suddenly , he turned to the Reverend-who was now holding before him a photograph , of which he allowed us only the briefest glimpse . |
| 4 | ‘ If the Scottish Secretary breaches the written undertaking he gave us then the next letter he should write is his resignation letter . ’ |
| 5 | Diffuse X-ray diffraction , by contrast , gives us only the local arrangement about the average atom . |
| 6 | Unfortunately they leave us little the wiser about its essential nature . |
| 7 | Derek was telling us only the last time he was home all about his Mate up there on the Rigs . |
| 8 | Although these are of critical importance , it is not particularly obvious how either a free market in broadcasting or ideological diversity in the media would make us any the wiser about Iran , Iraq or the Lebanon . |