Example sentences of "[v-ing] us the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well plus plus the fact that erm it 's not that you have n't got one , or it 's not that we 'd need you to drive it 's that you 're denying us the privilege of being able to send you . |
| 2 | The roads , though , were completely blocked , giving us the problem of at least a six-mile walk through the snow to reach the base of either mountain . |
| 3 | One might have hoped for silence from Diana Mosley but now she has been giving us the benefit of her experience on the subject of sexual politics : ‘ There are quite as many henpecked husbands in the world as there are battered wives , something feminists fail to notice . ’ |
| 4 | Complete our coupon , giving us the name of the movie star you would most like to look like . |
| 5 | I see this marvellous mechanism as giving us the certainty of immortality , for the impact of our thoughts and personality becomes imprinted in the brains of other men and they will continue in the minds of future generations . |
| 6 | We do n't pray to win ; we pray before and after each game to thank God for giving us the gift of talent and the capacity to express it . |
| 7 | There are frogs that glide with big webs between their toes , tree-snakes with flattened bodies that catch the air , lizards with flaps along their bodies ; and several different kinds of mammals that glide with membranes stretched between their limbs , showing us the kind of way bats must have got their start . |
| 8 | Milton , we could say , is here showing us the price of following God 's command . |
| 9 | I give them lollipops , so they perform enthusiastically , showing us the speed of their boats as they skiff them through the water and how many stones they can carry before sinking . |
| 10 | From Bethlehem at the beginning of his Gospel to Rome at the end of Acts it is the one Spirit active throughout : first showing us the nature of that messianic salvation brought by Jesus , and then showing us how it was spread . |
| 11 | Many thanks for meeting myself and my colleagues last week and for showing us the area of the factory in which we can film . |
| 12 | The MEI schedule is therefore the investment demand schedule , telling us the level of investment that will be undertaken at any given rate of interest . |
| 13 | It is clear that the Central Wales Line still has much to offer , even with modern traction , much as we would all like to see BR allowing us the pleasure of an occasional steam run . |