Example sentences of "we a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They renovate and enhance our reactions to life by disrupting established habits of response , and creating in us a state of equilibrium of a kind that other sorts of experience can rarely achieve . |
| 2 | Yes they gave us a drink of beer and that erm and that was entirely up to them and erm . |
| 3 | Here , too , though we are not looking to carve up the territory between us a degree of competition never does any harm we should at least be getting together to think out how best to collaborate in the future . |
| 4 | In former days the economical cycle hit different parts of the world at different times and the spread gave us a degree of stability . |
| 5 | Two , two or three week 's running Jenny came up on a weekend and brought us a bar of chocolate each |
| 6 | It 's costing us a bit of money but er , you know , we do n't do these things for the short term , er |
| 7 | I thought I 'd give us a bit of cabbage last night . |
| 8 | Give us a bit of credit tonight . |
| 9 | Give us a bit of support . |
| 10 | ‘ Give us a bit of time , ’ whined Jackie 's voice . |
| 11 | That is going to take us a bit of time to put into place , but we 're , you know we 're moving just about as fast as our legs can carry us . |
| 12 | Afford us a bit of respect now and again . |
| 13 | Well , he 's saved us a bit of trouble , I suppose . " |
| 14 | Before us a spectre of technology dominates the skyline . |
| 15 | The values tabulated here give us a measure of comparison for Kaimann 's experimental results . |
| 16 | Ask Rosemary to make us a pot of tea . " |
| 17 | In the days of the Bestiary and the Emblem Book , animal pictures had shown the world of Aesop 's fables ; butterflies giving us a symbol of resurrection , and also of feckless enjoyment , in pictures waiting to be decoded . |
| 18 | showing us a mouthful of guava . |
| 19 | And RZB 's willingness to find flexible solutions to trading problems have gained us a reputation for business without barriers . |
| 20 | they sent us a parcel before Christmas three weeks before Christmas , and they were ringing se , because he knew with overseas or anything . |
| 21 | ‘ The recession gave us a window of opportunity , ’ he said at the time . |
| 22 | that 's why he 's had the paper out , must of cost us a fortune in phone calls |
| 23 | We only paid interest on what we had borrowed , which saved us a fortune in interest charges . ’ |
| 24 | But many archbishops were delighted by the excuse to go on pilgrimage to Rome ; and one of the first to benefit from the custom was Sigeric , archbishop of Canterbury ( 990 — 4 ) , who has left us a kind of diary of his visit — first of the churches in Rome which a pilgrim had especially to visit and to pray in , and then of the stages on his long journey back to Canterbury . |
| 25 | But the dangers in observation are perhaps implicit in the word , and observation can all too easily become realism , and realism is as Piaget has reminded us a kind of confusion between the inner and the outer — a fixing in the object something which is an activity of the thinking subject . |
| 26 | Do you think he was trying to tell us something when he moved house without leaving us a change of address ? |
| 27 | ‘ They give us a sense of achievement too because we like to take on a caring role and feel responsible . |
| 28 | We also use targets to give us a sense of achievement . |
| 29 | This passage from her writings gives us a sense of proportion about our joy through suffering : |
| 30 | There are some targets which we never expect to achieve but as we move towards them they give us a sense of direction . |