Example sentences of "us a good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have tried to make the questions simple but comprehensive so that it wo n't take many minutes to fill in but your answers will give us a good idea of what is wanted and what is not . |
| 2 | It gives us a good platform . ’ |
| 3 | And God and Saint Winifred send us a good ending ! ’ |
| 4 | We pay every week to get into the game ; this money goes to the manager and team , and in return they owe us a good afternoon 's entertainment . |
| 5 | It took us a good while to get to the location . |
| 6 | DURING Fun Fortnight we 've had jokes on everything from cows to coughs , doctors to dentists , and everyone has given us a good laugh . |
| 7 | DURING Fun Fortnight we 've had jokes on everything from cows to coughs , doctors to dentists , and everyone has given us a good laugh . |
| 8 | The Fish got us a good position at the back of the club , where we stood on wooden beer crates holding on to each other as the floor seemed about to crack open with heat and stomping . |
| 9 | We started many years ago by believing that innovation and uniqueness would provide the revenue to give us a good return , and for a time it did . |
| 10 | Her Report , finished just before she left , is clearly written , well argued , and , I hope , gives us a good chance of receiving funding . |
| 11 | ‘ City did us a good turn by beating Leeds on Saturday and we do n't want to waste it , ’ said Mr Ferguson . |
| 12 | ‘ Under John 's leadership , the last three years have seen significant progress and given us a good start in tackling the challenges that lie ahead . ’ |
| 13 | The satellite picture gives us a good indication of what 's to come this weekend . |
| 14 | It seems to us a good time to tap our shareholders . |
| 15 | But give us a good meal first , wo n't you — I have n't had good home-cooking for … for two and a half days . |
| 16 | Despite the lack of firewood , the generally damp conditions and intermittent fever , Habta Mariam , squatting in the open beside his fire with his pots resting on stones , cooked us a good meal every evening . |
| 17 | erm Sadly it wo n't be with the same riders we had last year , but the riders we 've brought in I 'm sure will erm , under the forty points erm give us a good team . |
| 18 | Does my right hon. Friend realise that in dealing with things that we hold so dear we want to make sure that the European Community gives us a good bargain and that what we give to it will be given back to us ? |
| 19 | Fortunately the teeth of higher vertebrates can tell us a good deal . |
| 20 | It tells us a good deal about the relative values of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that where the Victorians modelled their stations on cathedrals and palaces , Modern Man models his on shopping centres and office blocks . |
| 21 | The difference between the comfort of the villa owner 's quarters and the room sin which his slaves worked and lived , tells us a good deal about the low standards slaves had to accept for themselves . |
| 22 | RICHARD ROLLE 'S conversion to the solitary life tells us a good deal about his spirituality . |
| 23 | The Bar is a leader in the field of video conferencing applications within the courts and the legal profession and its endeavours have brought us a good deal of favourable publicity . |
| 24 | Two , our institute has its own hall and as this is now about seventy years old and was not particularly well built in the first place , you will understand that it costs us a good deal in money and effort to literally keep the roof over our heads . |
| 25 | I , I , it probably gave us a good grounding . |
| 26 | ‘ We are falling away from what made us a good side . |
| 27 | It gave us a good insight into a Labour Government . |
| 28 | So we did n't have to go all the way to Lime Street , Liverpool , Chapman , with his characteristic attention to such details , had arranged for the train to make a special stop at Edgehill Station , to give us a better chance of getting home the same night . |
| 29 | Erm , on the emergency call out I getting surprised that this council insist that it 's lit if we do n't need it er at all service , I 'm sure , I 'm quite certain that we have never been told that there 's always been a question of anything that goes to actually give us a better call out service . |
| 30 | We found the discussion very useful since it gave us a better idea of the strengths and weaknesses in the future household projections and where the points of political leverage may lie . |