Example sentences of "us the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They can also tell us the correct name of a city .
2 Our instructors taught us the correct names for the parts of the Topper .
3 To enable the House and the country to clear the matter up , will the Secretary of State tell us the correct figure ?
4 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 .
5 Mercier , by contrast , gives us the working man , drawn with almost Hogarthian candour .
6 He still feeds us the odd titbit , apparently . ’
7 At the German border we were helped by a German trucker who got us the required stamps .
8 Just tell him what we want him to give us , you know if he gave us the advance nod on something then we could either you know deal it exclusive or we 'll put it all round , you know , whichever they prefer .
9 Flashman has made us the laughing stock of football .
10 To a number of us the crucial omission was any help for industry , which was going through an appalling time .
11 There is only what from our side is neither predictable nor controllable — the coming of the Word from beyond which opens and displays to us the overwhelming advent of God as he makes himself known in the ‘ eternal moment ’ .
12 For most of us the mental picture of an experiment goes back to school laboratories .
13 Perhaps this afternoon he will tell us the Labour party 's attitude to this imaginative development .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 I yes , I 've just had my massive little row with The Savoy about the prices and they just wanted to charge us the normal price !
17 And this gives us the final say .
18 Although writing here with a different purpose from our own — and exclusively from a psychodynamic perspective — Anthony nevertheless articulates for us the final theme that remains to be developed in this chapter , which concerns the formal similarities between the mechanisms of mad and creative thought .
19 His willingness to accept violation and destruction at our hands out of love for us the loving obedience to his Father is the darkness of the aboriginal prayer , the prayer that makes sense of any other prayer , the mystery of hope at the heart of hopelessness that Dr Spufford refers to in the death of Robert Aske .
20 It is God as Spirit who brings us the intimate presence of God to us , enabling us to be friends of God .
21 Who would like to have a go at describing for us the General Assembly of the United Nations ?
22 We had a very good time , & good weather , for the rest of our stay , & I think Richard enjoyed showing us the many attractions of his area as much as we enjoyed seeing them .
23 Next month even brings us The Good Cat Food Guide ( Chatto & Windus , £4.99 ) .
24 Jesus , as the Alpha and Omega , the beginning and the end , Jesus , who came to give us the good news , news worth singing about .
25 ‘ Give us the good news . ’
26 Christmas Eve brought us the good news that we had also been awarded Phase II of the East Merthyr Reclamation Scheme , known as Great White Tip .
27 May he bestow the riches of his peace upon us , bring us the good news of salvation and always fill us with love for all peoples .
28 A very delighted Nick Harris bringing us the good news about Oxford United getting through and winning today against Portsmouth by a goal to nil .
29 Ahead of us the tall pines that stretch out across the frozen plain of Estonia distinguished themselves from the snow-coated sky and earth .
30 ‘ They 're giving us the extra points !
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