Example sentences of "not [verb] us the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the police had not given us the benefit of the doubt , I should have been more than a little proud to go to jail in his company , together with the Cup . |
| 2 | It was clear that Holmes ' cleverness with the telegram had not given us the proof we needed . |
| 3 | Yet this did not bring us the surrender we hoped for . |
| 4 | Thousands of years of philosophy can not give us the answers to these questions . |
| 5 | I understand that you wish to run the tape on UNIX on Sun/3 , but you have not told us the tape density you need . |
| 6 | ‘ The early try did not cost us the game , but the late penalty certainly did lose it for us . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Without knowing what it is I ca n't say — and it 's not something I can rush because the girl wo n't talk if she 's frightened , or she 'll talk but not tell us the truth . |
| 8 | It is arguable whether these routes are worthwhile , but it would be nice if everybody could judge this rather than some narrow-minded person not giving us the choice . |
| 9 | Now they 're not giving us the time to make . |
| 10 | ‘ The arrival of another SeaCat vessel in May certainly has not hit us the way some people expected . |
| 11 | This gives us , if we know the date of the award ( which is easy to discover ) , the exact date of all the external fences or hedges , but it does not tell us the date of the internal fences on the bigger allotments . |
| 12 | The Government say that they can not tell us the value of the companies because the information is commercially sensitive . |
| 13 | The approach taken here does not afford us the luxury of such explanations : we must seek the reason for the peculiar distribution of the infinitive with perception verbs in the passive voice in the meaning expressed by the sentence . |
| 14 | ‘ As wholesalers we felt that Billingsgate was not offering us the facilities we needed , ’ he explains . |
| 15 | Er in use of other you should have the difference in survival between the patients that had more than twenty one or less than twenty one but actually it er you did n't show us the survival curves for |
| 16 | He said , but he said it does n't give us the excuse of not paying the invoices on time , and he said erm I have warned him for it this morning and he said he will process it , and he said the cheque will be in the post here on Monday . |
| 17 | But she did n't give us the satisfaction of raising her eyes to confirm the fact . |
| 18 | Volume numbers of Unix-based PC 's are n't there yet and Motif ca n't give us the cash returns we 're looking for with this product ’ . |
| 19 | The final question Chairman , there 's a lot of er , facts here with no remarks against them under the premises and involvement like here on page three , number fifty nine , Mental Health Act , the National Assistance Act , Health and Safety at Work Act , it does n't tell us the type of premises or what in so I say , well what involvement do we have with the Mental Heath Act for example ? |
| 20 | She wo n't tell us the truth , but I know it , she wets herself , she does n't want it to show on the chairs in school |