Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [verb] us [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | King David shows us the way when he says , ‘ It is good to give thanks to the Lord … and make thy praise our pride . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Miss Honey gives us a little song about each word and we all sing it together and we learn to spell it in no time . |
| 3 | Linda Fraser gives us a bird 's eye view of this festive meat and makes saucy comments about cranberries |
| 4 | He says Sue Townsend sent us a recipe from Adrian Mole . |
| 5 | We sat down and Dr Jaffery handed us a plate of dates : traditionally the delicacy with which Muslims break the Ramadan fast . |
| 6 | We might reply that the simplicity of cave communities is idiosyncratic rather than typical : we might ask what general ecological insights we are going to obtain from communities that lack photosynthetic plants and herbivores , and are maintained by detritus flushed down from above : but Dr Culver gives us no answer . |
| 7 | And God and Saint Winifred send us a good ending ! ’ |
| 8 | P. L. Forey offers us a somewhat smug polemic directly on this view ( ’ In itself the scenario is harmless ’ ; ‘ the cause of that ( taxonomic ) pattern if it is considered desirable to know it ’ etc ) . |
| 9 | Former technical direct Dr Nigel Mykura told us the immediate cause of his February 1991 resignation was a transfer of £350,000 from AMS1s bank account to another MacDonald company , which Mykura believed would make it impossible for AMS to continue its research . |
| 10 | Sister Marcus gave us the report with her sleeves rolled up . |
| 11 | When we arrived , Helen Stoner showed us the three bedrooms . |
| 12 | Speaking without notes , Mr Denton gave us a clear picture of the way the railways were first developed as a freight service , and indeed their rapid rise as a people carrier was an unexpected consequence . |
| 13 | Mowbray said : ‘ A few years ago , Middlesbrough manager Bruce Rioch showed us a two-hour video of Bill Shankly talking about football and life in general . |
| 14 | When Sid Boyling gave us the light and waved us on , I read my brief prepared introduction and Mr Murray began : ‘ My friends , I speak to you from Melachusetuck , the old Indian name for Moose Jaw , and it is my pleasure to visit the studios of CHAB , your own community station , which your loyal support and encouragement over the years has made possible . |
| 15 | Can I ask Mr can I ask Mr Davis to give us a bit more explanation , please , as to his rationale behind continuing resistance to the development of greenfield sites on the edge of York . |
| 16 | Note : The Social Secretary is hoping to arrange for Mr Breeze to give us a further talk . |
| 17 | ‘ Mr Murphy read us a terrific piece about the IRA hunger strikers , ’ said Surkov , gulping vodka . |
| 18 | ‘ It was good of your Mr Barnet to lend us the carriage , ’ Ruth said when they were driving along . |
| 19 | Jo Spence gave us the courage to open our own family albums , to remember the past , to acknowledge both the pleasure and the pain , and to celebrate the sublime , scruffy , misunderstood mystery of growing up female . |
| 20 | In THE RAG NYMPH ( Corgi £4.99 ) Catherine Cookson gives us an engrossing tale of human trauma . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Vegetable juice is even less desirable , and the resulting plant print rarely has any relevance to the text Elizabeth Barrett Browning gave us a gentle reminder in Aurora Leigh : |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | At a meeting , our ward councillor Mr I. Hartley informed us the reason for this decision was because it was not viable . |
| 25 | Perhaps we need men like Denis O'Neil to give us the pointless perspective , to underline the fact we do not live by bread alone but by blarney and beauty and other indefinable things that do n't always make money . |
| 26 | La Rochefoucauld gives us an observation on behaviour , but withholds speculation on the causes of that behaviour . |
| 27 | In the first of a series of four reports this week , Mike Rowbottom brings us the Inside Story . |
| 28 | Kevin Price gave us a glimpse of what was to follow with a clever break and when the ball was set up from the resulting ruck , Paul Flood was equally successful with a drop goal . |
| 29 | Debbie White gave us a crash course on the Friday morning . |
| 30 | West Ham did us no favours . |