Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] us [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But this only gave us a taste of the variety of altered states we would encounter ahead .
2 After a considerable amount of doubling back , hiding in bushes and around buildings and mingling with crowds , the poor fellow finally gave us the slip and disappeared .
3 ‘ Even so , you sure sent us a lulu . ’
4 The incident also offered us a glimpse of the glamorous , sometimes expensive , globe trotting lifestyle of a successful wine merchant .
5 Although the enclosure movement in all these forms was the last great revolution in the English landscape , radically changing much of the countryside as it took place , it also gave us a landscape which is aesthetically much more pleasing to most people .
6 It also gave us a taste of its international coproduction In search of paradise , starting it on Easter Monday , continuing it on the Tuesday , and on the Friday .
7 The first day also gave us the sight of an England captain losing the toss on his birthday , the first time this has happened in the history of Test cricket .
8 He also gave us the name of an excellent brickie who had worked with d-i-yers before and was to give us some good advice , as well as building straight walls .
9 Kay Evans also gave us the news that Kay Latto has re-married — and is now Mrs. Dan Maskell .
10 It also gave us the belief , probably misguided , that there are two fundamental learning processes : classical and instrumental conditioning .
11 I , I knew , I , I knew that it was because the , that the taxi cabs had insisted , but now told us the reason .
12 Lloyd even promised us an interview with Andrew Ball but we heard nothing .
13 So she ne , never even brought us a doughnut !
14 ‘ He even gave us a talk about his love of birds at the Tory Party Conference .
15 The use of this material could very well gave us a clue to the date of the first stone church at Halling .
16 He then showed us the brass plate of ‘ No. 1 ’ , still attached to the piece of cab as Selwyn Higgins cut it off .
17 ‘ He flew me , and a friend out there , put us up for three nights , then gave us a holiday in the Florida Keys , all paid for ’ .
18 Some of the expenditure er some of the income came from erm the Cheltenham Gold Cup which ra actually realized us the sum of ninety four pounds in comparison with twenty fo twenty four pounds the previous year .
19 I think the wives found it to their benefit to get amongst other wives who were sharing the same problems you know , how to pay the bills , how to buy food , and I think they seemed to get organized pretty well , they certainly helped us a hell of a lot .
20 Jack recently told us the plot of a 1951 Jane Wyman movie called The Blue Veil and we both broke down sobbing at the same point of the story and sobbed for minutes .
21 And you can always tell reflectors in training , cos sometimes you 'll think what 's happening , nobody else wants participation , reflectors will actually stand back and think well what did they ask for , what do I talk about then and it 's always like a delayed response you get a lot of reflectors and we had one course once and we had all high reflector scores and that actually told us a lot about participation cos people were n't disguising any they were thinking about it coming in had time to consider an opinion so that 's a reflector .
22 For a while my wife and I were helpless with laughter , but trying to clean up afterwards taught us a lesson !
23 We could n't review it ‘ coz US Gold never sent us a copy , but most of the games are featured in Phil 's Issue 88 sports roundup .
24 It certainly took us a while to understand John 's plus points .
25 They never gave us a chance with Stephen .
26 I think there were one or two er new items of information that he had concerning Oxfordshire which he did n't realise before , and he certainly gave us the impression that he would er , er take these into account when assessing the share out to Oxfordshire .
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