Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] give we " in BNC.
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1 | At the Red Cross warehouse , we were met by Stoyaeka who drove us to her house where she gave us a meal of soup , bread , stew and dumplings , all washed down with a very palatable local red wine . |
2 | Whenever we need to go to and from the Institute , or even if we want to make an expedition into town , we go to the Car Office , at the hotel , where they give us deluxe transport by car , and pick us up again when we want to return . |
3 | ‘ And he just stood there , ’ Emlyn concluded , ‘ looking so desperate that I gave us both an enormous gin and tonic ! ’ |
4 | And then that 's the one that you gave us copies cos you had you said you were gon na get five |
5 | And then , turning its head to look round the workshops , it said , ‘ We do not ask of you that you give us your slaves , Robemaker , for it is vital that the Looms are kept weaving . |
6 | I was reading in the , in er , in that paper that you give us , you know , I was reading soaps and that |
7 | Now they keep saying , mummy you always give him more than you give us ! |
8 | But while the large number of coins means that they give us a large quantity of information , their small size and the consequent brevity of their inscriptions greatly restricts the level of interpretation we can make from them compared with , say , a lengthy edict of a Roman emperor fully inscribed on stone . |
9 | But you can see that er for someone who has no , a wife who has no income and her husband 's paying twenty five percent or forty percent then by moving a , say er twenty thousand at erm well er whatever percentage to fill up these allowances er if you 're getting ten thousand or twenty thousand put , put it into the wife 's name that they give us the interest is then hers , if she has no other income it neatly can be swallowed up by the allowance . |
10 | A council they oppose so much that they give us one of the lowest grants per head in the country , poll tax cap us , take us to court over redundancy payments , criticise us over the Meadow Well management and so on . |
11 | But anyway we , they must have been so impressed by the , the order that they got , that they gave us the agency for Galashiels and Selkirk for the Austin . |
12 | Erm mm , I do n't know whether there 's any way round it but that 's sort of the set up that they gave us when we started and I guess I 'll have to sort of conform to that , but it |
13 | It 's not B T , it used to be B T , erm until about 1984 , when we decided that the maintenance that they gave us was n't good enough , and got Plessey in . |
14 | Also they had to film the invasion in the dark so they gave us two lamps . |
15 | Anyway , so they gave us a bottle of wine . |
16 | They had to do the lot so they give us an invoice , we took it in to insurance and they 're gon na write a cheque , deduct it off that thing |
17 | In that it gives us ‘ knowledge ’ , as opposed to mere ‘ belief ’ or ‘ faith ’ , of course it has ; but Locke also means that revelation must be answerable to reason . |
18 | ( 1 ) If seeing something is like eating it with the eye , so that it gives us sensations in our eyes as eating manna gives us ‘ sensations of sickness , and sometimes of acute pains or gripings ’ in our stomachs , then what physically enters the eye comes to have an importance not only for understanding the physical mechanism of visual perception , but also for understand the concept of visual perception . |
19 | The definition is adopted , of course , not merely for the reason that it gives us a further explanation of the difference between causal items and their effects . |
20 | A realization that it gives us rights that we do n't have as well as some sharing , some loss . |
21 | If we just win freedom that freedom will become very empty if we 're not able to use the power that it gives us to create justice and peace in the region . |
22 | Do n't forget that it gives us another chance to make progress in Europe this season ; success for Linfield and of course Crusaders may yet lift us away from the bottom of the ladder and give us a chance of avoiding those detested preliminary rounds . |
23 | So it 's a very great honour and privilege for me to address you today because at the end it may be difficult for you to understand but when I return to South Africa , and forgive me for speaking personally I also realize the full meaning of the support of British trade unions and the labour movement and the churches because it was because of your political material and particularly in the case of the G M B , financial and material support that it gave us the means to do what some of us wanted to do about our country and our situation , and bring about change if we could peacefully . |
24 | I thank the Minister for delivering every one of the pledges that he gave us in Committee . |
25 | any way subsequent to that he gave us one which it was awkward working it out and then he gave us one over the same |
26 | I do n't know what his name was , but I was only a little kid like , you know We , we sung that He give us half a crown each , He said do you know on , on the I said oh yes . |
27 | However , if the department or faculty you are interested in is not listed , or it is impossible for you to come on the given dates , then we will do our best to arrange an individual visit for you provided you give us plenty of advance notice . |
28 | And you gave us ta you gave him a , you gave us tablets . |
29 | Er I suggest you pick up the phone and you give us a call now on , alright ? |
30 | Like all the members of staff , Miss Smith was dedicated to her work and she gave us a fine start in life . |