Example sentences of "[to-vb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All cancellations incur a charge payable by you to compensate us for our offices . |
| 2 | All cancellations incur a charge payable by you to compensate us for our estimated losses and expenses , calculated as shown here as a percentage of the total holiday price of the person(s) making the cancellation , inclusive of all extras except holiday insurance premiums as shown here . |
| 3 | To compensate us for the expense of processing your booking and for the risk that we may not be able to resell the holiday we charge a cancellation fee on the scale shown below . |
| 4 | Our new landlady made it clear that she was delighted to accept us in preference to yet more evacuee children . |
| 5 | The policy seems to be to segregate us from the Chinese as regards eating , sleeping travel , etc. as much as possible , but mainly for our own comfort , so that we can enjoy a higher standard of life than the Chinese themselves could expect . |
| 6 | We left the trees and walked now between high stands of phragmites and reedmace , pausing at a reed screen positioned to hide us from sight . |
| 7 | Despite fourteen years of trying to smash us into submission , they 'll fail to break the spirit of the working people of Britain . |
| 8 | But you 're right about Willesden and how you ladies managed to find us in the blackout beats me . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Yet she made it known to Brother Tutilo , ’ retorted Herluin , burning up in his turn , ‘ that she has felt compassion towards afflicted Ramsey , and wishes to benefit us in our distress . |
| 10 | And I was trying to ask another sort of question which was , ‘ How is our illness represented and how does that help to position us through our basic ignorance ? |
| 11 | Some horses also like to tease us , to irritate us with trivial annoyances — and especially in front of an audience . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm sure I do n't know for what act of yours the Deity has seen fit to bless us with mounted Normans , and shiploads of mercenaries , and woods that burn in a trice , but you must have dropped a word somewhere that commended itself . ’ |
| 13 | We can not answer that question with certainty , but the details of the story itself would seem to provide us with several clues . |
| 14 | Our billetors were obliged to provide us with breakfast , which might be taken about 7.30 ( or 10.30 if we had been on night duty ) , and one other meal which had also to be a moveable feast . |
| 15 | Our billetors were obliged , wherever possible , to provide us with one bath per week ; where this was not possible , facilities were available at B.P. , but this interfered with transport provisions , and sometimes a request for private transport was necessary , though not readily granted , and arrangements for this were in the hands of a Mrs Wildboar-Smith . |
| 16 | Wrangham 's work goes far to provide us with the essential spatial structuring that underlies this flexibility . |
| 17 | As the great British biologist/mathematician J.B.S. Haldane commented , human beings would be hard pressed , however long natural selection acted upon them , to sprout the wings of an angel ; we just do not have the genes that would even begin to provide the appropriate structures , and past selection has never acted to provide us with these structures . |
| 18 | The problem arises because there is nothing in our day-to-day life to provide us with sufficient exercise . |
| 19 | The intervening years have seen the chip gradually replacing the cathode ray to provide us with the most pervasive and persuasive form of global mass communication . |
| 20 | Labour is said to be in terminal decline because we have failed to identify , let alone appeal to , a natural constituency we might expect to provide us with majority support . |
| 21 | It is highly probable that by early in the next century it will require no more than ten per cent of the labour force to provide us with all our material needs — that is , all the food we eat , all the clothing we wear , all the textiles and furnishings in our houses , the houses themselves , the appliances , the automobiles , and so on . |
| 22 | In accordance with Section 29 of the Companies Act 1982 we require you to provide us with the names and addresses of the partners in your business . |
| 23 | He wants to provide us with the insight from his word and the power from his Holy Spirit that our lives should be transformed . |
| 24 | Not only were the British Consul staff unable to answer questions about the search and weather conditions , but they were also reluctant to provide us with any basic help . |
| 25 | Without perceptual systems to provide us with knowledge of the outside world we are impotent . |
| 26 | The job of perceptual systems is to provide us with representations of what is happening in the outside world , representations based on information gathered from receptors based in different parts of the body that are tuned to specific classes of physical events . |
| 27 | Instead , I hope to show that Poulantzas relies , for the explanatory force of these claims , on our pre-theoretical , voluntarist understanding of them , and thus fails to provide us with examples of the holistic form of explanation he advocates . |
| 28 | In Chapter ii we found that a good deal of social science has been informed by this view ; but it is nevertheless natural to wonder why individualism should be excluded from the group of disciplines that aim to provide us with a grasp of the social world . |
| 29 | He is also firmly committed to proactive management : ‘ This is n't the kind of business environment in which we can set targets and expect something to happen , and we 're not waiting for an economic turnaround to provide us with the kind of results we want to turn in . |
| 30 | One of the Taï chimpanzee mothers , Ricci , was kind enough to provide us with the first record of observable active teaching ( acceptable to a psychologist ) in a non-human animal in the wild . |