Example sentences of "[verb] us the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 's kept us on file and will give us the first date available in June . |
| 2 | Then we effectively double their money , because that would give us the fourth and final one that we do need to set up and start operating . |
| 3 | So she told us the last time she was round she was going on a course for that sort of thing and she said now would you like to try it said fair enough . |
| 4 | 1.7 Example ( 26 ) shows us the second and less common relation contributing to the unfolding of syntactic structures , which we shall call equation , adopting the obvious symbol to represent it : ( 26 ) Fitzpatrick , our neighbour , used to plant potatoes the subject exemplifies the basic pattern [ E = E ] , ( as does the underlined portion of ( 22 ) ) ; in more exact terms , what we have in this subject phrase is : As we have just remarked , equational phrases are rarer than phrases involving qualification ; and , among them , there is a very large disproportion in favour of equation between E and E , rather than between P and P. Nevertheless , the latter can be found ; two examples would be : ( 28 ) what I need is a cup of strong , dark coffee for a fast , convenient trip to the city , take the Skytram This is clearly not to say that strong and dark , or fast and convenient , are equivalent at the type level ; only that on some particular occasion of use , as here , they may be regarded by speaker , or copywriter , as equivalent . |
| 5 | It was going to be a major battle and there were plenty of press predictions that the radical changes would cost us the next general election . |
| 6 | Ministers had rejected the report but politically it took us the next two general elections to repair the damage . |
| 7 | ‘ If they would n't tell us the first time , why should they do so now ? ’ |
| 8 | Bukharin gave us the first fully algebraic exposition of accumulation in the Marxist tradition ; and as such his contribution marked a turning point in discussions of the reproduction schemas , since he was able to formulate general conditions of capitalist development . |
| 9 | Phrasal verbs come in for more attention with Phrasal Verbs Organiser from LTP ( by the man who gave us the First Certificate Organiser ) , while HarperCollins is publishing a Phrasal Verbs Workbook to accompany its dictionary . |
| 10 | For many years we sought access to him and the inner sanctum of his medieval palace , until in 1981 he finally gave us the first filmed interview ever granted by one of his line . |
| 11 | But chapter 23 gives us the last piece of true storytelling in which Abraham is centre stage throughout . |
| 12 | Q : We paid for our holiday in Paphos , Cyprus , in January , but 36 hours before we were due to leave our tour operator , Saga Holidays , rang to tell us the Roman Hotel in Paphos was double-booked and to offer us the first week at another hotel which was , in our opinion , inferior . |
| 13 | ‘ This made us the second most successful regional morning in the UK and one of only a handful of papers to increase annual sales . |
| 14 | Or maybe , seeing us the second time , he might have suspected . |
| 15 | We had no way of knowing it , but those messages were to bring us the first concrete news of John for eighteen months . |