Example sentences of "giving us the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The roads , though , were completely blocked , giving us the problem of at least a six-mile walk through the snow to reach the base of either mountain . |
| 2 | One might have hoped for silence from Diana Mosley but now she has been giving us the benefit of her experience on the subject of sexual politics : ‘ There are quite as many henpecked husbands in the world as there are battered wives , something feminists fail to notice . ’ |
| 3 | Complete our coupon , giving us the name of the movie star you would most like to look like . |
| 4 | I see this marvellous mechanism as giving us the certainty of immortality , for the impact of our thoughts and personality becomes imprinted in the brains of other men and they will continue in the minds of future generations . |
| 5 | We do n't pray to win ; we pray before and after each game to thank God for giving us the gift of talent and the capacity to express it . |