Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] us the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | When we arrived , Helen Stoner showed us the three bedrooms . |
2 | They stamped round the sofa and did that tricky bit of acrobatics that Sid and Ethel showed us the other night . |
3 | Meanwhile , Flupper showed us the deadly thorn bushes that wrap round their prey like octopuses : and then whooshed us off at savage speeds — sometimes so fast he aquaplaned over the water . |
4 | The Torygraph gave us the usual shite report of the game — it did however comment on the poor state of the pitch and also get Sgt Wilko to display his disgust on it 's current state . |
5 | The Torygraph gave us the usual shite report of the game — it did however comment on the poor state of the pitch and also get Sgt Wilko to display his disgust on it 's current state . |
6 | Bukharin gave us the first fully algebraic exposition of accumulation in the Marxist tradition ; and as such his contribution marked a turning point in discussions of the reproduction schemas , since he was able to formulate general conditions of capitalist development . |
7 | Some of the finest of these were on the walls of Puang Sangalla 's house , where Ranteallo took us the following morning to meet his dead father , and barely alive eighty-seven-year-old mother . |
8 | Former technical direct Dr Nigel Mykura told us the immediate cause of his February 1991 resignation was a transfer of £350,000 from AMS1s bank account to another MacDonald company , which Mykura believed would make it impossible for AMS to continue its research . |