Sentence examples for would grant us from inspiring English sources

Or Liam Fox's promise that the EU would grant us the "easiest trade deal" in history?

We were excited, because we were sure that she would grant us a visa, so to speak.

Maybe a commander who would never talk to a woman from his own country would grant us an interview.

The cause of our conflict with the Israelis is their desire to make of us a servile minority or an emigrant memory and they have done nothing that would grant us the dignity of self-determination.

I am not self-important enough to believe it is part of many voters' deliberations, but a yes vote would free us as Scottish writers from a hidden war that rages inside our minds; it would grant us the light wings of a new responsibility.

Just by doing a search on a Web site, we'd find a password or usernames that would grant us access.

And BP, the biggest Western oil company in Baku, has been a great friend to the country for a decade and a half.The president, who would not grant us an interview, is no democrat, even though his economic advisers insist that he has liberalised the economy and cut back on red tape.

There was the old man at the corner bodega who would only grant us a reprieve from the sweltering summer heat in his air-conditioned store for as long as it took us to finish a popsicle.

As I followed him to security, I asked when he'd finally grant us a real interview.

Cavendish would grant that some of us might squirm at using expressions like "muscle memory", but she would worry that when we do (squirm), we are in the grip of a theory, and a theory that has us denying the obvious.

Nonetheless, if we are to afford people the same agency and fluidity of character that we'd like them to grant us, it's time we took the wordier route when talking about them.