Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] we [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jean make us a cup of tea love . |
| 2 | King David shows us the way when he says , ‘ It is good to give thanks to the Lord … and make thy praise our pride . ’ |
| 3 | We sat down and Dr Jaffery handed us a plate of dates : traditionally the delicacy with which Muslims break the Ramadan fast . |
| 4 | ‘ Nothing really , except that last week Angy showed us a sketch she 'd done of him . |
| 5 | In this way Marx and Engels give us an alternative to the idealist philosophies which they reject . |
| 6 | Can the hon. Gentleman prevail on his right hon. and learned Friend to give us the assurance that there will be funds — public funds if necessary — to ensure that the King 's Cross scheme goes ahead ? |
| 7 | She says about herself and Medau : ‘ I think it was 1940 when Medau came my way — Molly , her mother and Edith came to a League of Health and Beauty group , and Molly gave us a Medau class . |
| 8 | ‘ Tencel reminds us a lot of gaberdine slacks . |
| 9 | The green sweep of the wooded hills on Morven and Mull gave us an impression of verdant lushness after the naked rock and brown moors of the Outer Isles . |
| 10 | To demonstrate the blacksmith 's craft , Pete made us a rams head fire poker . |
| 11 | Odd-Knut showed us a video of the Iditarod , intriguing for what it did n't tell you which , as it turned out , was quite a lot . |
| 12 | If the Prime Minister really wants to help the British people , he should use Maastricht to give us a system which will promote balanced regional economic development throughout the United Kingdom , attack some of the social ills and divisions which beset British society at present and , finally , enhance not detract from the quality of British democracy . |
| 13 | Could I ask er , Rotarian Alan to give us a vote of thanks ? |
| 14 | The clear majority view in my group in Brussels is that though not perfect Maastricht takes us a step in the right direction , setting about building the sense of a community on the market place created by the nineteen eighty seven Single Act . |
| 15 | Eventually , Lorraine tells us the way to Siobhan 's new house . |
| 16 | Eventually Birru brought us the ducks that Habta Mariam had cooked . |
| 17 | Pauline Freedman sent us a photograph of her brother and his wife wearing sweaters she had knitted using the alpine scene by Wendy Phillips from our January issue . |
| 18 | He was really upset about that , but Maastricht gave us the ability that we could ex have that in Britain on a majority decision . |
| 19 | In the same little volume Boulestin gives us an explanation of the old-fashioned French custom of serving a vegetable before the roast — an explanation which contains also some sound gastronomic advice : |
| 20 | Moreover — and more to the point — if as literary intellectuals we feel frustrated at having no channel of access to the figures who exercise decision-making power in our societies , Mrs Lowndes shows us a society in which literary intelligence had direct access to such centres of power , by way of the conjugal bed as well as over the dinner table . |
| 21 | Doctor Finlay , Miss Marple , All Creatures Great And Small and even sitcoms like You Rang M'Lord give us a flavour of life in the not too distant past . |
| 22 | It was so hot and dry , another party on Gimer made us an offer we could n't refuse . |
| 23 | And my father s he er he used to go in the Plum Tree and one of the landlords there he 'd say er , Tom lend us a quid . |
| 24 | One result of this difference of reference is that it is possible to construct sentences which will be analytic or contradictory on the one interpretation but not on the other : ( 11 ) Nikolai offered us the message decoded but it was not decoded when he offered it to us 4.2 One curious feature about these adjectives is that they somehow seem to modify not only the noun which they accompany but simultaneously the verb as well ; if this is a genuine observation it will be surprising on general grounds , since it would be decidedly abnormal in syntax for one element to simultaneously qualify two different items . |
| 25 | In his autobiography , ‘ Inward Hunger ’ , ( 1969 ) Williams gives us an insight to how he felt at the end of this speech , ‘ the audience had listened with rapt attention ’ … then … |
| 26 | For apart from Lenin 's conviction that there is always a dominant instance at a time of social stability , and a dominant contradiction at a time of social change , Althusser gives us no reason to believe that there need only be one aspect of society which bears this relation to the mode of production . |
| 27 | We asked him many questions , and finally Johann gave us the information we wanted . |
| 28 | And as we heard this morning Jesus told us a parable about a mustard seed , although it 's small it grows into quite a large shrub . |
| 29 | The voices of , among others , Joss Ackland , Claire Bloom , Roy Kinnear and Rik Mayall give us a tale of pretty Princess Irene whose father the King goes off on business . |
| 30 | But caring for Biggles taught us a lot . |