Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] us the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a considerable amount of doubling back , hiding in bushes and around buildings and mingling with crowds , the poor fellow finally gave us the slip and disappeared . |
| 2 | The first day also gave us the sight of an England captain losing the toss on his birthday , the first time this has happened in the history of Test cricket . |
| 3 | He also gave us the name of an excellent brickie who had worked with d-i-yers before and was to give us some good advice , as well as building straight walls . |
| 4 | Kay Evans also gave us the news that Kay Latto has re-married — and is now Mrs. Dan Maskell . |
| 5 | It also gave us the belief , probably misguided , that there are two fundamental learning processes : classical and instrumental conditioning . |
| 6 | I , I knew , I , I knew that it was because the , that the taxi cabs had insisted , but now told us the reason . |
| 7 | He then showed us the brass plate of ‘ No. 1 ’ , still attached to the piece of cab as Selwyn Higgins cut it off . |
| 8 | Some of the expenditure er some of the income came from erm the Cheltenham Gold Cup which ra actually realized us the sum of ninety four pounds in comparison with twenty fo twenty four pounds the previous year . |
| 9 | Jack recently told us the plot of a 1951 Jane Wyman movie called The Blue Veil and we both broke down sobbing at the same point of the story and sobbed for minutes . |
| 10 | I think there were one or two er new items of information that he had concerning Oxfordshire which he did n't realise before , and he certainly gave us the impression that he would er , er take these into account when assessing the share out to Oxfordshire . |