Example sentences of "gave we [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our resources were too widely deployed , which gave us stability , but lost us a competitive edge . |
| 2 | The environment that gave us opportunity was so dissimilar from that of the present as to seem more remote in time than it is . |
| 3 | He gave us licence to be silly , which is why there are thousands of us here today . ’ |
| 4 | The team who gave us SOUTH PACIFIC , OKLAHOMA , CAROUSEL , THE SOUND OF MUSIC and THE KING AND I are just some from the legacy of the best and most popular shows of the post-war era . |
| 5 | The booksellers were reluctant , even by 14th December , to have any stock that involved opening boxes , but they seemed to enjoy watching us lug books about for once , and happily gave us top-up orders . |
| 6 | You 've got ta pay to go through , all these tolls which we did okay cos what we done we bought a pack which gave us petrol coupons . |
| 7 | which gave us life ; |
| 8 | That now , when perhaps we need Him most of all , we allow ourselves to be weaned away from He who gave us life ? |
| 9 | that and so on , erm , erm , I , it would be nice in fact if the er Ipswich evening tabloid which gave us prominence to this rule er would give just a little space to er this latest development , erm but I would like to , not being excessively caracole I mean reading this document I do feel a slight er switch on your comments on er Pipers Vale , er which you note , there are no er nationally er or er common species which sounds as though you have designs on it , erm I , I wonder if this would be the place to ask you , you know , to make some sort of statement about Pipers Vale , you know that we are basically looking for a route which does not touch on Pipers Vale |
| 10 | P&O Ferries lent us all the props and gave us expert advice , ’ Peter says . |
| 11 | We played the harmonium and sang together and Dad sometimes gave us money to go to see a picture at the Queen 's Hall . |
| 12 | So people gave us money for the stamps that we put on and other people gave us donations . |
| 13 | It gave us hope . ’ |
| 14 | We knew he 'd taken a survival kit and space blanket on his trip , and that knowledge gave us hope . |
| 15 | Small things still gave us hope and the rare glimpses of colour we saw took on an almost spiritual quality . |
| 16 | ‘ Cynthia gave us pork pies and pickled cabbage . ’ |
| 17 | If Althusser gave us history without a subject , Habermas gives us subjects without history . |
| 18 | Y oh yes it gave us advantage to the extent that we 'd someone b behind us to fight for any , any er grievances that we had . |
| 19 | and gave us brandy , gave us brand oh oh that 's it |
| 20 | ‘ They appreciated the peace it gave them from the ones who wound them up and it gave us peace . |
| 21 | We tr I travelled to school on the railway one bit , when they gave us season tickets , because with a scholarship you got your fares paid . |
| 22 | At our pensione , they gave us melon every day ! |
| 23 | Last night he told TODAY : ‘ We were able to trace Watson after a member of the public contacted us and gave us information which suggested he was responsible for these attacks . |
| 24 | Ron was kind ; like Mr Scrooge he gave us Christmas Day off . |
| 25 | My mother laughed at this , scornfully ; but in fact she gave us Christmas and birthday presents of clothes and shoes , and the record player came into the house in this way , as my eleventh birthday present . |
| 26 | He gave us coffee laced with Chilean brandy . |
| 27 | They gave us ammunition for the guns , and many people were shot . " |
| 28 | A very dear friend from Hong Kong , a visiting Chinese University teacher , spent a weekend with us , and gave us news of friends we had met there . |
| 29 | Usually perhaps there was a servant , but my mother did everything for us ii the house , made many of our clothes and mended them , prepared and gave us food , tended us when sick , comforted us when cold , disappointed , or sorrowful . |
| 30 | But he had it and he gave us food and wine out of it so we understood it was his . |