Example sentences of "not [verb] us [art] [noun sg] " 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 | They can not send us a box that is filled only with good apples , there has to be one that is bruised . ’ |
| 5 | So why not give us a call ! |
| 6 | In the meantime , if you 've got a story you think we should be investigating , why not give us a call on the news line . |
| 7 | If you too believe you 're being exploited and do n't get a decent wage why not give us a call and tell us about it . |
| 8 | If so , why not give us a pension ? |
| 9 | But the Bible does not give us a miracle on every page . |
| 10 | But does this observation not give us an insight into a deeper foundation on which the individual disciplinary culture is based , a foundation which is common to all disciplinary formations permitted entry into the academic community ? |
| 11 | ‘ The standard of football we produced against Marseille did not warrant us a place in the final . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ The early try did not cost us the game , but the late penalty certainly did lose it for us . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | Why not drop us a line here at Outdoor Action ? |
| 16 | Why not drop us a line here at Outdoor Action ? |
| 17 | ‘ You are not giving us a chance . |
| 18 | Not giving us a drop . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Now they 're not giving us the time to make . |
| 21 | ‘ The arrival of another SeaCat vessel in May certainly has not hit us the way some people expected . |
| 22 | WHY NOT PAY US A VISIT AND SEE US AT WORK . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The Government say that they can not tell us the value of the companies because the information is commercially sensitive . |
| 25 | The ‘ Thatcher governments ’ of 1979 onwards argued that ‘ the world does not owe us a living ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She did not offer us a tour of the house . |
| 28 | I was hoping he would not offer us a glass of his very potent drink that I now know as Calvados . |