Example sentences of "gave us [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We arrived at a Roman Catholic church where kind ladies gave us food and blankets , and soon we were all cosily asleep on the hard church floor . |
| 32 | ‘ She gave us nougat , ’ Samantha said . |
| 33 | And not content with an immensely complicated system of direct taxation , the Conservative government that came to power in 1970 gave us value added tax — heralded at the time as ‘ a simple tax ’ . |
| 34 | These pictures by early-20th-century artist , Anna Guthrie , daughter of an Orkney minister , and those by the other Anna – Mrs. Hossack – gave us pleasure as well as profit ; and to Eddie Penham and John Easton , both artists themselves , the opportunity to try their hands at picture-selling . |
| 35 | Birthtales gave us insight into the most essential human experience , birth , where artists from different cultural backgrounds found a common ground . |
| 36 | he never made any thing else in his image , but he made you to be created in his image and with that there 's that status , were not just a more intelligent animal , were not just something else that God made even , but were that , that peak of his creative genius , the peak of it , the very pinnacle of it , not because of what we are , but because of the image , the pattern that he was using , his own self , created us in his image , so that gave us status but it gives us responsibility . |
| 37 | I think the only reason they gave us time back was because I was going to report the prison doctor to the Board of Visitors . |
| 38 | Here we single out Gilbert Clark , of St. Columba's-by-the-Castle , who gave us efficiency at last with his advance-planning and ingenious equipment , along with himself , heart and soul ; David Wright , now an old friend , and Shearer Borthwick , of Augustine Congregational Church , who came at 8 am and again at 2.30 pm each day , to help in so many ways ; and Duncan Curr , the new Chairman of Christian Aid/C.E.E.C. , from Dublin Street Baptist Church . |