Example sentences of "giving us [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He brings Abraham down to earth with a bump , by giving us a subtle piece of comedy in which he features as something of a country bumpkin and gets , to use unsubtle language for a moment , ‘ right done ’ ! |
| 2 | And we did it first half , and when we were in possession , we were winning it in their sort of last third of the field , and that was giving us a great chance to create scoring chances and that 's what we 've done again today which has worked very well . |
| 3 | Rayleen helped too , or rather her uniform did , giving us a pseudo-official status which meant we could jump the queue . |
| 4 | I am sure that that former right hon. Member of this House could do a lot to help Northern Ireland by giving us a favourable response in the very near future , as I believe he will . |
| 5 | So giving us a total income for the year of about a hundred and twelve thousand pounds . |
| 6 | The high quality applications which we received , in addition to giving us a wide choice of suitable applicants , gave us incidentally an encouraging snap-shot of the future of the book industry . |
| 7 | Reg Marshall said : ‘ They are wasting their money giving us a wooden hut . |
| 8 | ‘ You , shut up , ’ Blanche cut in firmly , ‘ or I 'll arrest you for wasting police time by giving us a false alibi . ’ |
| 9 | But the weather deteriorated and the wind increased to around 30 miles-per-hour by the time Jack was out and shot a 76 , giving us a three-stroke advantage over the Bear . |
| 10 | Turning south overhead Dunster Castle we climbed through the cloud which had now formed giving us a restful trip home VMC on top . |
| 11 | At the end of the year , BP Oil had 17 service stations operating in Hungary , giving us a significant market share in the Budapest area . |
| 12 | ‘ He was giving us a bad time , though , till you came in . |
| 13 | But they were , at that particular time with the Germans , giving us a bad time in the Western Desert . |
| 14 | Perhaps the greatest contribution that fictional novels can make to human rights and changing attitudes is in giving us a timely reminder that all the statistics we 're constantly bombarded with actually constitute human lives , just as valuable as our own . |
| 15 | It might have been difficult for the headmaster of our school to believe that we were late because of a derailment , but fortunately a teacher of theology at the school , Don Cavalli , travelled on the tram every day , and he was able to explain what had happened , giving us a cast-iron alibi . |
| 16 | We have advanced ‘ moral careers ’ as another useful concept , this giving us a special purchase on that elusive quality : human agency . |
| 17 | as if that was not shocking enough , we later on found Derek giving us a learned address on the provenance and composition of La Bohème . |
| 18 | well — we are sixth from bottom and I guess Pool will be giving us a hard time at Anfield after loosing against Spurs . |
| 19 | In supporting our own active participation in , and control over our own affairs , such people are giving us the right kind of help . |
| 20 | Modern performers , failing to appreciate the tremendous range of tempos covered by these dances [ minuets ] , are giving us the bottom half only . |