Example sentences of "[noun pl] to give us [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A small investment — for INCUBUS — in certain companies to give us a toehold inside me Common Market . |
| 2 | We also use targets to give us a sense of achievement . |
| 3 | In his Reith lectures , broadcast in 1991 and now published as a book , he has set aside his snails to give us a glimpse of human evolution through his geneticist 's eye . |
| 4 | Information is relevant when it has a significant effect on our assumptions : in other words , when it will allow us to alter our knowledge structures to give us a more accurate representation of the world . |
| 5 | We need three or four decent players to give us a chance of getting promoted . ’ |
| 6 | Yes , I think it 's just to follow on from that erm about trusting children to give us the sort of clues that we need to be able to respond to , very often they do that in ways that are not directly associated perhaps with the anxiety that 's around , so that they may be expressing their anxiety by just generally difficult behaviour or by wetting the bed at night , or maybe being quite disruptive in their play , or provoking other children , and adults who are able to see that sort of behaviour as useful for information for us , so that we can respond appropriately , not out of anger and a erm judgemental sort of response , but in a way that we can support their anxiety by by not getting over excited and + and erm responding in a very aggressive way to the very aggression that they 're expressing as a result of their anxiety . |
| 7 | Tony and I dig a platform for the tent , lowering the snow by about seventy centimetres to give us a nice protective wall . |
| 8 | I , I think it was only a drop in the ocean really towards the national effort , but , but I remember erm at Darlaston , they used to build tanks over there and they , they used to pay us visits in sometimes they 'd send some of their men over in the tanks to give us a pep talk about the war effort and all that but er , they used to do things like that then to gee you up erm |