Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] us [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Team secretary David Morris said : ‘ Ian only joined us three weeks ago because he had discipline problems at his last club . |
| 2 | We ‘ book people ’ are somewhat defensive about our occupation of the Church for a long period , so the following incident naturally gave us new confidence . |
| 3 | Er cos I think you just told us that man you know |
| 4 | Just joined us this evening from England . ’ |
| 5 | The bank was usually very understanding , and generally gave us some leeway until we were able to sell something . |
| 6 | And this time it did n't give us two X it just gave us one times this one times that one . |
| 7 | No we went in and erm it was about er three or four minutes before we actually started and he just gave us this paper and he put sets of questions to the different types of differentiation |
| 8 | Sir Emmanuel once sent us some grouse from his own table but it was not to our taste -it had been cooked in port wine and laced with some spices . |
| 9 | Some could n't say what they 'd been wearing themselves , but their female colleagues usually gave us some idea . ’ |
| 10 | A sort of Celtic Spinal Tap for Teds , it also gave us seminal TV villain Eddie McClockerty , played by the god-like Richard Wilson . |
| 11 | After all , Snow forcefully reminded us that science had at least an equal claim to that of the humanities in the full development of the mind of the student : they were two cultures , formally equal in status . |
| 12 | They even sent us some French and Belgians , people like that , to work the land . |
| 13 | Now , Tommy Cooper he never charged us one penny ! |
| 14 | Ev well I do n't know about this year mind but every Christmas I worked there she never paid us double time for anything over Christmas , she was always bought us a present . |
| 15 | Many a time I had the hand-brush and so did my brothers and sisters but it never did us any harm . |
| 16 | A London postman 's daughter whose grandparents lived next door contrasted the couple : ‘ oh she was a pet , but not him , he never gave us any love . ’ |