Example sentences of "gave us the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those in the East End included a half-share in Chandler 's Wiltshire Brewery in the Hackney Road , Bethnal Green ( via the Lion brewery , Lambeth , the brewery that gave us the South Bank lion ) ; some of the pubs belonging to the Commercial Brewery Co in Commercial Road , Stepney , in 1927 ( the rest went to Hammerton 's brewery , Stockwell ) ; and West and Co , of the Three Crowns brewery , Hackney Road , Bethnal Green , with 60 pubs , in 1929 . |
| 2 | He made such a fine job of the earth , the sea and the hills ; He made an equally fine job of the creatures , large and small that run around on the land ; He even gave us the best crags in the world … |
| 3 | This unusual relationship gave us the joy of knowing her very well . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Anyway , he gave us the tickets . ’ |
| 6 | TELEVISION has given us the dramatised documentary Last week The Sunday Telegraph , in its report ‘ Cambridge blues as Oxford bags title ’ , gave us the dramatised book review . |
| 7 | ‘ It also gave us the seven seats we needed . ’ |
| 8 | The man who gave us The Romans in Britain still knows how to make an audience feel uncomfortable . |
| 9 | He went there before you , as did your grandfather Cornelius Swift , who gave us the vases in the hallway and the stuffed baboon I had to throw out because of the fleas . |
| 10 | As one unionist remarked , ‘ they gave us the key , but forbade us to open the door . ’ |
| 11 | He did no more than chip that one in as well , and it gave us the lead . |
| 12 | The Butcher gave us the impression that he was indeed talking about chunks of meat — sides of beef or lamb or perhaps great hams trussed up with string . |
| 13 | To re-finance ourselves in order to finish the task , we arranged a Flexible Businessloan with a two year capital repayment holiday which gave us the breathing space we needed . |
| 14 | When Sid Boyling gave us the light and waved us on , I read my brief prepared introduction and Mr Murray began : ‘ My friends , I speak to you from Melachusetuck , the old Indian name for Moose Jaw , and it is my pleasure to visit the studios of CHAB , your own community station , which your loyal support and encouragement over the years has made possible . |
| 15 | It comes to us from the age which gave us the Great Charter , and founded the House of Commons . |
| 16 | Apart from Fedorov , that fellow who gave us the slip the other evening might turn up . ’ |
| 17 | The man who gave us the meson |
| 18 | Bob Eaton , the man who brought Lotus to GM and gave us the Calibra , is about to become chairman of Chrysler . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | His 1970s cycle of the complete Symphonies all too often gave us the plainer side of Masur 's musical nature : these tend to be rather sober accounts . |
| 21 | Gordon showed us clearly the path of forgiveness , and gave us the strength to forgive from his experience . |
| 22 | Miles Lessingham is here and gave us the details . |
| 23 | Donald , alas , had been dead for thirty years when Hilary Spurling published her admirable biography Ivy when Young and gave us the answers to our questions . |
| 24 | Marx was wrong , it is now claimed , when he asserted that the steam engine gave us the capitalist . |
| 25 | It was the capitalist who gave us the steam engine . |
| 26 | THE biggest Christmas casualty is the person whose birth gave us the excuse for rejoicing . |
| 27 | Mum came in from the shops and gave us the news that , starting from September , we are to have 2 morning services . |
| 28 | Any account of English book illustration would be inadequate without a tribute to Edmund Evans ( 1826–1905 ) who brought to a wonderful peak of success the revival of the art of colour printing from wood blocks and gave us the delightful colour plate books of Kate Greenaway , ’ Richard E. Doyle , Randolph Caldecott and Walter Crane . |
| 29 | Instead he gave us the Boredom Offensive . |
| 30 | Our customer certainly thought so — she gave us the cheque before we left ! |