Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] give we [det] " in BNC.
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1 | The boy 's foster mother refused to be interviewed , but his real mother gave us this reaction . |
2 | Within a minute or so he modified his cocksureness — — ‘ The good Lord gives us all certain gifts ’ — but not much . |
3 | Not only is the system incapable of answering this type of question , even the General Theory gives us few clues apart from the somewhat cursory treatment of the two elasticities , e p and e y , in Keynes 's generalized quantity theory of money . |
4 | An American soldier gave us each a balloon and told us that the winner would be the one who could soonest burst the balloon by blowing it up beyond its stretching point . |
5 | Elizabeth was brave and helped us ; her sweet smile gave us some happiness in the unhappy days after my mother 's death . |
6 | ‘ If that ole watchman gives us any bovver I 'll do 'im meself . |