Example sentences of "gave us [det] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day they told us we were to close gave us all a shock |
| 2 | ‘ You gave us all a start , ’ Rose said happily . |
| 3 | At the end of the EFL training course I did in London , a British Council type gave us all a pep talk before we were packed off to Ankara or Kuala Lumpur . |
| 4 | An American soldier gave us each a balloon and told us that the winner would be the one who could soonest burst the balloon by blowing it up beyond its stretching point . |
| 5 | ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ had just been released in England and David was doing well with it , or so I 'm told , but no-one had heard of him at all in America , so Tony DeFries gave us each a box of 25 albums to just give to whoever we thought was cool , which actually turned out to be a pretty good idea . |
| 6 | You gave us such a fright . |
| 7 | I suppose it was the isolation that gave us such a feeling of camaraderie . " |