Example sentences of "us a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New Zealanders gave us a rapturous welcome . |
| 2 | We also have a few little phrases in the UN 's so-called Global Plan of Action for Marine Mammals which give us a small hook on which to hang international actions for the benefits of both whales and seals . |
| 3 | So , by dint of various enquiries , we managed to locate a house in a more salubrious area , Cardington Road , where the landlady was prepared to offer us a small sitting-room in addition , for an extra guinea a week . |
| 4 | Lung are never short of ideas , but their appeal is seriously limited because they give us a small taste of everything on their creative menu but seldom enough of one thing to really satisfy . |
| 5 | Announcing this programme , the then Minister of Fuel and Power , Geoffrey Lloyd , said dramatically , ‘ Our nuclear pioneers have now given us a second chance — to lead another industrial revolution in the second half of the twentieth century . ' |
| 6 | Naturally , nobody gave us a second look and I had the traffic lights co-ordinated by computer so that we stopped near you just as Sergeant Plod , with perfect timing , gave you an excuse to mace him . |
| 7 | Actually , nobody gave us a second look as they must have presumed I was trying to get inside her knickers . |
| 8 | So , of course , we were getting a little bit panicky cos what 's worrying me , and it still worries me again we 've put all this time and effort in they may pay us alright , we 've got this twenty , they may pay us a second payment , but are they gon na pay up on the third ? |
| 9 | Plotting OU 1 against OY 1 on graph ( iv ) gives us a second point on the unemployment-income curve ( point B ) . |
| 10 | ‘ It gave us a second pop at Morley Street , and he was stopping , ’ said Elsworth . |
| 11 | This gives us a second combination of interest and income ( 10% and £40m. ) which must also be on the IS curve . |
| 12 | Well we could get the bus to take us a long route . |
| 13 | We should also note that there are at least two different factors which may lead us to feel that some notion deserves emphasis ; one of course is contrast with another property that might have been expressed ; the second is salience of the notion within the particular situation envisaged ; this would presumably be true for : ( 16 ) Geraldine told us a long story about bee-keepers With these points in mind , we should now compare ( 15 ) with ( 17 ) and ask ourselves how much emphasis of either kind is present in ( 17 ) , provided that it is not " read in " in order to support the hypothesis : ( 17 ) the ideas discussed will be put to our colonel topics suitable could include divorce and bankruptcy buildings adjacent will be closed for three days Since there is no doubt that these sentences might be used in situations where the property of the adjective would not be contrastive , the only candidate which may have any plausibility is the " salient on this occasion " variety , though there does not seem to be very strong reason to believe that in all cases where these sentences could be used the adjective property will be salient ; we return to this later . |
| 14 | This stress on the interdependence of social phenomena , though it may be circular and is not exhaustive , takes us a long way in understanding the basic dynamics of community life . |
| 15 | Plain text could get us a long way , but words are an imprecise medium , and pictures and other symbolic descriptions often help ; so we shall need a few mathematical ideas and notations . |
| 16 | Much of the work evaluated in this chapter takes us a long way towards identifying mechanisms for triggering the need for investment , screening the proposals and defining them . |
| 17 | Behind us a long chain of tiny lights danced slowly away from the refuge towards the col du Chardonnet , as last night 's occupants resumed the Haute Route . |
| 18 | This view of acting behaviour as no more than role function has taken us a long time to understand . |
| 19 | It just took us a long time . ’ |
| 20 | There is one who has been with us a long time — but then those are old maids of course . |
| 21 | You see the i it was er we used to make curtains then for Littlewoods , Littlewoods as it is now , they 're still , you know , the they were about the forerunners of the er tt this er catalogue business , and if they gave us an order that would last us a long time , and that usually the eight points , which was meant to say there were eight threads to an inch . |
| 22 | If we really fell in love and then never saw one another again , it would take us a long time to get over it and forget . |
| 23 | And er it took us a long time to get the special material because as you will gather , we tend to do everything properly , so we had to have the a cloth specially woven er handwoven of course and especially dyed and for once we had it especially fooled in other words the nap was raised . |
| 24 | That 'll be one read , but we 'd have to read it to you and it 'll take us a long time ! |
| 25 | But it took us a long time to actually get to that stage because er , the police are at fault , the police launch these schemes and they go away and say get on with it and off we go |
| 26 | Erm that 's the plan of course it it will take us a long time to find something suitable . |
| 27 | From some time in high summer until we left the Pit the guards started bringing us a regular supply of videos . |
| 28 | An increasingly broad appreciation of the Scriptures will give us a developing ability to scent the will of God in any given situation . |
| 29 | ‘ She seemed to us a shining light , who did a lot for Liverpool . |
| 30 | If we feel that someone has a high opinion of us we tend to want to live up to it , but few of us bother to make much effort with anyone we know who gives us a low rating , and this is very much the case between mothers-in-law and sons-in-law . |