Example sentences of "and [vb base] we [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as I 'm awake , I stick the kettle on and make us two cups of tea . |
| 2 | Fellow pilgrims , the wonderful reality of incarnation is a message to us all that God can take the foolish things of this life and make us rich vessels for his use . |
| 3 | May God send us His Holy Spirit and make us courageous followers of Jesus Christ our Lord . |
| 4 | ‘ Get up and make us some tea . |
| 5 | Please come and see what we do and bring us any problem you feel we can solve . ’ |
| 6 | But if you look deeper into it , you 'll find that it 's really calculated to give us inferior education and deny us full rights as human beings . |
| 7 | If the population of burrowing earthworms could be increased five-fold ( and there is no reason why it should not ) , the natural improvement in soil structure and fertility could transform the productivity of our land and save us enormous expense . |
| 8 | It is not only advantageous for us to know which of a horse 's emotions are destructive to us having a good working relationship with it ; but ideally , if we also consider horse will do more for us and give us greater pleasure . |
| 9 | Why does n't this poor excuse for a human being stick his head back in his colostomy bag for a good feed and give us real music fans a bit of a rest ? |
| 10 | Why does n't this poor excuse for a human being stick his head back in his colostomy bag for a good feed and give us real music fans a bit of a rest ? |
| 11 | He referred to plans to develop social programmes and infrastructure projects as a ‘ vision that I hope will sustain Hong Kong during the present period of uncertainty and give us all confidence in our ability to overcome whatever problems confront us ’ . |
| 12 | Guide us oh God with your love as we await the coming of your son and give us all grace to welcome him into our hearts as his mother welcomed him in Bethlehem , and we ask her help as we pray . |
| 13 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
| 14 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
| 15 | Join the Trust and give us some help . |
| 16 | So come on and give us some respect . |
| 17 | Moreover , Noorda must finally set up a line of succession and give us some indication of how Novell ( and Unix ) will function when he bows out . |
| 18 | The agency takes on any kind of job — you just name the subject and give us some indication of the kind of thing you want to know , and then we go out and get it for you . ’ |
| 19 | Let's hope advertisers get the message and give us more laughs and less po-faced hype in future . |
| 20 | ‘ Now we are selling 50,000 vehicles it gives us encouragement that European consumers will forget the past and give us another chance , ’ said Mr Miller . |
| 21 | All right , if you insist , but do come round this evening and give us another chance to try to persuade you … |
| 22 | His blind refusal to break the rules and give us any information was so bloody irritating . |
| 23 | They can tell us about political slogans ( see pp. 37–8 ) , and give us important information about the people and places who made them . |
| 24 | And tell us such shou 'd ne'er be wore , |
| 25 | Instead of lean convictions and supple value judgments , they treat us to a slick orgy of channel-hopping ( Hiltler word-bite plus Mapplethorpe sight-bite and so on ) and feed us quivering slices of deconstruction , done to a turn . |
| 26 | ‘ Go and find us some clothes , Nails — we 're all starving , and I 've got to get home and do Midnight . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Come and see us some time , ’ said John Postlethwaite . |
| 28 | ‘ Come up and see us some time , ’ they wrote , dangling as bait the finest toasties West of the A1 . |