Example sentences of "[vb pp] us the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flashman has made us the laughing stock of football . |
| 2 | The hon. Member for Sedgefield ( Mr. Blair ) has huffed and puffed , but he has not told us the Labour party 's position on a single proposal contained in the Green Paper . |
| 3 | This afternoon , he has treated the House to an extraordinary collection of half-truths and inaccuracies , but he has not told us the Labour party 's attitude to the proposals that I identified in the statement . |
| 4 | ‘ They have n't called us the United Nations team yet , but after Tuesday I think they might , ’ admits captain Michael Patton . |
| 5 | This is a memo to Caroline at Aiden Mouth Good evening Caroline , can I refer you to Aiden Mouth , invoice number A four hundred which is linked to invoice number one , nine , O , seven , six , paragraph invoice where total is one , sorry , seventeen thousand , one hundred and six kilos , of which Aran A R A N contributes twelve thousand , eight hundred and ninety two kilos , which is seventy five point three seven percent of the total weight , stop , in your invoice number A four hundred you have charged us the full charges , whereas we are only liable for seventy five point three seven percent of the New Zealand to U K charges , dash , am I not correct , question mark . |
| 6 | ‘ Although you have assured us the massive cut in income will not now occur , the fear among our members is any compromise will result in an inevitable fall in the standard of care we can offer to patients in the future . |
| 7 | Heading up Wood Group engineering 's activities in Dubai and Abu Dhabi is Bill Reid who has sent us the following report : . |
| 8 | I only wonder why nobody has given us the small print of the Social Chapter that Labour and the Liberal Democrats want so badly . |
| 9 | The onward march of technological progress has given us the user-friendly sealed cassette , much more difficult to damage or tamper with — or to intervene in ( and to recreate on modern machines ) . |
| 10 | It 's also given us the new agreement on working time which our own government have tried to work against consistently for the last two years , they now say they 'll challenge it in Europe 's Court of Justice , well what they seem to forget is it 's got ta come back to Parliament for a second reading yet and they 've created such ill feeling in the Parliament and among the Commission , that it 's likely to be strengthened , we 're gon na end up with a strengthened agreement on working time by the autumn of this year . |
| 11 | TELEVISION has given us the dramatised documentary Last week The Sunday Telegraph , in its report ‘ Cambridge blues as Oxford bags title ’ , gave us the dramatised book review . |
| 12 | God has given us the Holy Spirit so that He can work in His world . |
| 13 | The East , on the other hand , has given us the long-haired Persian cat from sixteenth-century Iran , the silky Angora cat from Turkey at the same period ( when Ankara was pronounced Angora ) , and the exotic , long-legged Siamese cat from seventeenth-century Thailand . |