Example sentences of "[conj] gave us " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those in the East End included a half-share in Chandler 's Wiltshire Brewery in the Hackney Road , Bethnal Green ( via the Lion brewery , Lambeth , the brewery that gave us the South Bank lion ) ; some of the pubs belonging to the Commercial Brewery Co in Commercial Road , Stepney , in 1927 ( the rest went to Hammerton 's brewery , Stockwell ) ; and West and Co , of the Three Crowns brewery , Hackney Road , Bethnal Green , with 60 pubs , in 1929 . |
| 2 | It was proving to be an ideal choice of holiday with a programme of free activities that gave us an easy opportunity to make friends with the guests form other nations who gave the Club such a cosmopolitan atmosphere . |
| 3 | It opened up a three-shot lead going into the second and that gave us a nice little cushion to work with . |
| 4 | FRANKMOBILE : A certain tour van that gave us so much pleasure and pain during the first six months of this year . |
| 5 | IT IS the magazine that gave us Sid The Sexist , Biffa Bacon and the Fat Slags and made a fortune for editor Chris Donald . |
| 6 | The city that gave us Cheers certainly knows how to seduce visitors . |
| 7 | ‘ We equalised their opening goal very quickly and that gave us a real lift because by then Liverpool could have been two or three up . ’ |
| 8 | Newcastle manager Keegan admitted : ‘ We created a lot of chances but it has to be said that it was a dubious penalty that gave us a goal . |
| 9 | It 's a black celebration , a grimy , twisted tribute to an era that gave us The Black Panthers , Jeremy Thorpe and Paper Lace . |
| 10 | GHI comment : The only sets that gave us a really good picture on the loop aerial were Philips and Sony . |
| 11 | The environment that gave us opportunity was so dissimilar from that of the present as to seem more remote in time than it is . |
| 12 | I suppose it was the isolation that gave us such a feeling of camaraderie . " |
| 13 | And erm , the other aspect , the last aspect that gave us er anxiety was something I touched on this morning when I joined in at the end of the Selby discussion . |
| 14 | ‘ Second , once sterling left the ERM , and with inflation sharply down , we were right to take the opportunity that gave us to relax policy and get interest rates down . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | We never rested five minutes that he did not fall asleep and gave us a little nasal music , and which hindered me nothing so fully as I wished to have done . |
| 17 | ‘ Some guys approached us and gave us one ( tablet ) each . ’ |
| 18 | Rechristened ‘ Rambos ’ , a reflection of their basic and rugged form , they offered us refuge from a rare rainstorm , and gave us a safe place to store excess baggage . |
| 19 | Usually perhaps there was a servant , but my mother did everything for us ii the house , made many of our clothes and mended them , prepared and gave us food , tended us when sick , comforted us when cold , disappointed , or sorrowful . |
| 20 | A very dear friend from Hong Kong , a visiting Chinese University teacher , spent a weekend with us , and gave us news of friends we had met there . |
| 21 | Bob Eaton , the man who brought Lotus to GM and gave us the Calibra , is about to become chairman of Chrysler . |
| 22 | The ‘ sheriff ’ came out and said that Customs wanted us to fly to Darwin for clearance , but we begged for mercy and he let us stay and gave us a ride to a lodge in the police wagon . |
| 23 | County and district councillors came along and after searching questions , agreed with our plan wholeheartedly and gave us very good advice . |
| 24 | Gordon showed us clearly the path of forgiveness , and gave us the strength to forgive from his experience . |
| 25 | Headmaster , Mr John O'Brien , commented : ‘ It was a great surprise to everyone in our team to hear of the win , and it certainly boosted morale and gave us lots of enjoyment in distributing the Wispa bars ’ . |
| 26 | Miles Lessingham is here and gave us the details . |
| 27 | Donald , alas , had been dead for thirty years when Hilary Spurling published her admirable biography Ivy when Young and gave us the answers to our questions . |
| 28 | ‘ Some bloke tried to stop us jamming in the lobby and gave us loads of attitude , ’ he said . |
| 29 | Mum came in from the shops and gave us the news that , starting from September , we are to have 2 morning services . |
| 30 | Any account of English book illustration would be inadequate without a tribute to Edmund Evans ( 1826–1905 ) who brought to a wonderful peak of success the revival of the art of colour printing from wood blocks and gave us the delightful colour plate books of Kate Greenaway , ’ Richard E. Doyle , Randolph Caldecott and Walter Crane . |