Example sentences of "not [verb] us the " 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 | Basically , the methods we used , although tried and tested by other organisations did not bring us the 4,000 members we hoped to see by the end of 1992 . |
| 5 | It is argued here , that economics can not show us the correct policy choice ( as some economists would appear to claim ) ; yet it may help us to avoid a wrong , or overly costly , policy choice . |
| 6 | However , although we can keep this association in mind , it does not give us the whole picture . |
| 7 | It is a reminder that Chaucer and Langland do not give us the total picture . |
| 8 | But despite the undeniable tendency in financial markets towards a more laissez-faire environment , the term deregulation does not give us the full flavour of events . |
| 9 | Thousands of years of philosophy can not give us the answers to these questions . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The hon. Member for Sedgefield ( Mr. Blair ) has huffed and puffed , but he has not told us the Labour party 's position on a single proposal contained in the Green Paper . |
| 12 | This afternoon , he has treated the House to an extraordinary collection of half-truths and inaccuracies , but he has not told us the Labour party 's attitude to the proposals that I identified in the statement . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 16 | Now they 're not giving us the time to make . |
| 17 | ‘ The arrival of another SeaCat vessel in May certainly has not hit us the way some people expected . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The Government say that they can not tell us the value of the companies because the information is commercially sensitive . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ As wholesalers we felt that Billingsgate was not offering us the facilities we needed , ’ he explains . |