Example sentences of "to give us a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony and I dig a platform for the tent , lowering the snow by about seventy centimetres to give us a nice protective wall . |
| 2 | Nero sends his luv , you know he 's coming over here to give us a turn this winter . |
| 3 | Do you want to give us a hand , lad ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ And it would be nice , ’ she added slowly , ‘ if someone was to give us a bit reading . ’ |
| 5 | So we did n't have to go all the way to Lime Street , Liverpool , Chapman , with his characteristic attention to such details , had arranged for the train to make a special stop at Edgehill Station , to give us a better chance of getting home the same night . |
| 6 | In between the Players played — to give us a chance to get out breaths back . |
| 7 | I wish we had sand to give us a grip . ’ |
| 8 | Fortunately the visibility was excellent , and so we could fly at 3,000 feet above the terrain to give us a larger cone of vision as well as options in the event of engine failure . |
| 9 | Our Higher Self is eager to give us a life full of love , joy , success and abundance ; but it will not do so until we say ‘ Yes ’ , and we keep turning our backs on it . |
| 10 | ‘ Mr Oakley tells me that you 're going to give us a hand . |
| 11 | In two days we reached Tezpur , and again found kind ladies from the tea estates waiting to give us a meal and a bath — bliss indeed ! |
| 12 | ‘ I said when we arrived two weeks ago that by the time it came to this Test you would have to give us a 50–50 chance because this is a one-off game , not part of a Test series . |
| 13 | But then I do n't suppose it 'll matter much with twenty of us in there ; our combined breaths 'll be enough to give us a steam bath . |
| 14 | He went in and fed them for us sometimes , to give us a break , and would phone us up if he thought there were any difficulties . |
| 15 | Mind you , I 'm not saying as that 's what she 'll get for the asking , and I 'm not saying there 's not many a man as 'll hand over his pay-packet unopened , but there 's enough of the other sort to give us a bit of a breather Thursdays . ’ |
| 16 | It had to change to give us a chance to advance . |
| 17 | ‘ It was as if they were trying to give us a clue , deliberately toying with us . ’ |
| 18 | A small investment — for INCUBUS — in certain companies to give us a toehold inside me Common Market . |
| 19 | Other leaky sources at the company were quite prepared to give us a low-down , see front page . |
| 20 | We started many years ago by believing that innovation and uniqueness would provide the revenue to give us a good return , and for a time it did . |
| 21 | Having set it up , he said he was going to give us a demonstration coaching session . |
| 22 | ( Goodman , 1965 , p. 17 , p. 23 , cf. p. 14 ; Ayer , 1972 , pp. 120 f. , cf. p 118 ; Lewis , 1973 , p. 1 ; Mackie , 1973 , p. 64 ) As a look at the philosophy of language and its analyses of " meaning " or its uses of " semantics " quickly shows , much more would need to be done to give us a well-defined problem , but let us not linger . |
| 23 | And er , we 'll be a part , I know as councillors , Labour councillors we are caught in a trap because due the financial constraint that the government has placed upon us there is very little we could do but , oh I 'll get I I er crumbs of comfort from the speculators who may decide to give us a few social housing . |
| 24 | Could I ask er , Rotarian Alan to give us a vote of thanks ? |
| 25 | Information is relevant when it has a significant effect on our assumptions : in other words , when it will allow us to alter our knowledge structures to give us a more accurate representation of the world . |
| 26 | While the circuit is being cleared to give us a free run , Brundle takes the car out on the public roads . |
| 27 | The only reference point to give us a sense of our height was the tiny boat on the beach beneath us , with the two fishermen , who had not only declined to follow us up the crater , but also expressed an urgent desire to avoid even setting foot on shore . |
| 28 | The talks were going very well and Smith said that he wanted to give us a holiday and take us to Victoria Falls in his plane . |
| 29 | As I said , whether mental confusion equals dementia , what exact degree of dependency what degree of confusion , what degree of dementia , this does n't tell you but what it does do is help to give us a picture of what is happening , not just in the local authority sector which we 've heard from , not just in the voluntary sector , which we 've heard from , but , if this is to be believed , by an even greater rate of increase in the private sector . |
| 30 | Er and the first gentleman I 'd like to call on er is Mister Anthony who is our Marketing Director to give us a market overview and assessment of the product opportunity . |