Example sentences of "he gave us " in BNC.
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| 1 | After he gave up the booze at Christmas 1977 — for good - he gave us his splendid Brian which is as clever and well-judged a piece of comic acting as you 'll see . |
| 2 | But he gave us that there . |
| 3 | He gave us a set of keys and we started going there regularly setting it up nicely . |
| 4 | He had spent several years in the Sudan and he gave us a tip : ‘ Never take a taxi there , ’ he said , ‘ without fixing the price for the journey before you get in . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Anyway , he gave us the tickets . ’ |
| 6 | He gave us licence to be silly , which is why there are thousands of us here today . ’ |
| 7 | He gave us a grin of yellow teeth . |
| 8 | We were always hidden away somewhere , I was packed off to various boarding-schools , he gave us piles of money , he just did n't want to see us ! |
| 9 | The running man took his opportunity , and as he passed , followed by his less competitive , wheezing companions , clearly suffering agonies by his pace-setting , he gave us a triumphant , knowing nod . |
| 10 | That finished , he gave us : ‘ Attention . |
| 11 | Ron was kind ; like Mr Scrooge he gave us Christmas Day off . |
| 12 | But he had it and he gave us food and wine out of it so we understood it was his . |
| 13 | Instead he gave us the Boredom Offensive . |
| 14 | So if God gave them the same gift as he gave us , who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ , who was I to think that I could oppose God ? ’ ' |
| 15 | He gave us the following answers : |
| 16 | If Professor Benson here were to make a very brief precis of the lecture he gave us in the wardroom this evening it might give them something more to think about . ’ |
| 17 | As a memorial of his sacrifice for us he gave us the sacrament of the Eucharist to be the food by which we share here on earth in the blessings of the world to come . |
| 18 | Before leaving him , we shook hands and he gave us each a yellow , fine-pointed Biro pen with which he was so fond of writing : a signal and a last gesture of kindness . |
| 19 | He gave us a cursory glance , then resumed his watch on the highway . |
| 20 | He gave us his story and we gave him ours . |
| 21 | He gave us his telephone number at the Ministry , and one afternoon when we rang him there he invited us to dinner . |
| 22 | He could no longer explain to us what was going to happen next , but he gave us complete carte blanche to explore and question as we pleased , and suggested that we begin by taking a look at the burial-cliffs , about a mile away from the Rante , where the king 's body would be interred . |
| 23 | He gave us an official letter to show the military commanders we might bump into along the way , and sent one of his high-ranking aides down to the dock to see us off . |
| 24 | ‘ He gave us the details of the phones . ’ |
| 25 | He gave us some money . |
| 26 | He gave us both his little interrogatory headshake . |
| 27 | Surely , do we know if we receive him and believe in his name and he gave us the power to become |
| 28 | ‘ And then he gave us the will and the other papers and he said to us , just before we toddled off to Morocco — ’ |
| 29 | He gave us a hard stare as he passed , very slowly . |
| 30 | He gave us coffee laced with Chilean brandy . |