Example sentences of "but [pron] give us " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 're so sorry about what happened to poor old Goosie Lucy but she gave us no choice . |
| 2 | ‘ But something gives us all — including Graham — the strength to keep going . |
| 3 | In response Kosygin admitted that ‘ they may not be hurting us , but they give us no pleasure either ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ We rang your own number but they gave us this one … |
| 5 | But he gave us that there . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He did not mention the patients charter , but he gave us some other insights into his approach to the problems . |
| 8 | He 's short of games but he gives us something different . ’ |
| 9 | In view of the fact that I am walking this is somewhat academic , but it gives us a point of contact . |
| 10 | Because we 've got sixties all over the place so maybe it was n't a brilliant one to try but it gives us some indication of what 's going on . |
| 11 | But it gives us an advantage . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's a dangerous game , but it gives us a chance of winning . ’ |
| 13 | It would n't convict our man , but it gives us an excuse to go and pay a call on the Putts of Swinbrook Manor . ’ |
| 14 | he never made any thing else in his image , but he made you to be created in his image and with that there 's that status , were not just a more intelligent animal , were not just something else that God made even , but were that , that peak of his creative genius , the peak of it , the very pinnacle of it , not because of what we are , but because of the image , the pattern that he was using , his own self , created us in his image , so that gave us status but it gives us responsibility . |
| 15 | It was hot and the demonstration went on much too long , but it gave us all some idea of how caring the teachers were and it was a practical illustration of what the school was trying to do . |
| 16 | True that the railway did not invent much of this beauty , but it gave us new vistas of it . |
| 17 | Erm I 'm not saying that er there were n't problems in security and using public transport and fear of using public transport after dark , but we were quite surprised that compared with the rest of the U K it was erm not acceptable but it gave us an indication on , on where to go from there on , erm and also I think er the important factor that in the lower in Strathclyde that we 've actually consulted women in terms of er what they want and what they need er in the transport world erm in public transport and that 's not lip service we 've actually had discussions groups and that information has been fed into the large erm public transport review that were undertaking at the present time . |
| 18 | But what gives us the sequence ? |