Example sentences of "gave us [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vegetable juice is even less desirable , and the resulting plant print rarely has any relevance to the text Elizabeth Barrett Browning gave us a gentle reminder in Aurora Leigh : |
| 2 | But in a way what happened last season gave us a necessary jolt . |
| 3 | , writes : LIKE the duck that warned of air raids in Germany , we had a Manchester terrier who gave us a similar warning . |
| 4 | This was especially so at Birmingham , where at 6.00 a.m. on Friday an ‘ End of Stage 2 ’ banner was erected and more than twenty insomniacs gave us a great breakfast and a marvellous reception that we will not forget , thanks to everyone who turned up , you certainly made us feel very welcome . |
| 5 | Doolin says : ‘ The result gave us a great boost . |
| 6 | I am the delighted winner of the Outdoor Action Splash competition and I 'd just like to say that Andy Middleton and his colleagues gave us a great time on our week 's holiday at the Twr-y-Felin outdoor centre . |
| 7 | My only other memory of that period was Schultz 's , the sausage-maker — a Saturday night treat for us , especially when he gave us a toothless grin and slipped an extra sausage in free . |
| 8 | The fact that we were able to change the front page up to 3 am. if necessary gave us a tremendous advantage over the national papers , already on their way to Wales by train . |
| 9 | New Zealanders gave us a rapturous welcome . |
| 10 | ‘ It was interesting to take on these different values and it gave us a new perspective . ’ |
| 11 | Oh it just gave us a nice thing saying I 've fixed your mouse , thank you very much . |
| 12 | Listening to news from home on the BBC gave us a real sense of belonging again . |
| 13 | ‘ Pompey gave us a real chasing . |
| 14 | ‘ We equalised their opening goal very quickly and that gave us a real lift because by then Liverpool could have been two or three up . ’ |
| 15 | The walk from the campsite near Hrabusice gave us a real taste of Paradise . |
| 16 | It gave us a good insight into a Labour Government . |
| 17 | I , I , it probably gave us a good grounding . |
| 18 | Of course , we had many political differences but the twin oppressions of being Irish lesbians and immigrants brought us together and gave us a strong framework upon which to build our own movement and within which to begin articulating our anger at English feminism . |
| 19 | For the first meeting of our 1990-91 winter programme our invited speaker was Mr Michael Parker of ‘ Centro ’ , the West Midlands Transport Executive , who gave us a fascinating insight into the planning , routes and probable operation of the intended West Midlands light rail system . |
| 20 | They gave us a consolidated figure of various numbers of P W's that are held , and of the numbers of erm dead that are held . |
| 21 | He gave us a cursory glance , then resumed his watch on the highway . |
| 22 | ‘ Brentford gave us a terrific battle but we deserved to win even though we missed chances . |
| 23 | It gave us a marvellous opportunity to listen to your views about IDEAL HOME , face to face . |
| 24 | Graham gave us a judicious mixture of archive material of these railway systems and some modern photographs of survivals and restorations . |
| 25 | He was a friend of a friend , and gave us a warm welcome and invited us to lunch . |
| 26 | The owners , the Signori Grignaffini , gave us a warm welcome before showing us our new home , and then insisted that we should have supper with them . |
| 27 | If we designed a questionnaire to ask people what they did in their free time , how would we know whether the answers we received gave us a true picture of how they spend that time ; or a picture of what they will say to a researcher when they are asked the question ? |
| 28 | Rechristened ‘ Rambos ’ , a reflection of their basic and rugged form , they offered us refuge from a rare rainstorm , and gave us a safe place to store excess baggage . |
| 29 | I am sure they thought that if they just gave us a token punishment , then the whole thing would all be forgotten . |
| 30 | My feeble little quip was self-diminishing , it might raise a smile , it paid a homage to her own earlier remark , and it gave us a shared history . |