Example sentences of "[to-vb] us with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some horses also like to tease us , to irritate us with trivial annoyances — and especially in front of an audience . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | We can not answer that question with certainty , but the details of the story itself would seem to provide us with several clues . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Wrangham 's work goes far to provide us with the essential spatial structuring that underlies this flexibility . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The problem arises because there is nothing in our day-to-day life to provide us with sufficient exercise . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He wants to provide us with the insight from his word and the power from his Holy Spirit that our lives should be transformed . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Without perceptual systems to provide us with knowledge of the outside world we are impotent . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Foster 's review is particularly good on the deficiencies of theorizations which fail to provide us with : |
| 22 | Is either of these two properties able to provide us with a slightly weaker but still attractive form of classical foundationalism ? |
| 23 | You are required by law to provide us with the following information : — |
| 24 | Stock markets fluctuate wildly , economists have difficulty forecasting performance or prescribing remedies ; the indicators and institutions that used to provide us with reliable and reassuring benchmarks no longer seem to be functioning properly . |
| 25 | Constitutional theory , in explaining how the various institutions of the state work together and in offering a particular theory of representation connecting state to society , seeks to provide us with answers to large and profound questions about who governs and how ; about who should govern and how ; and about the respective rights of people and the privileges of property in British politics . |
| 26 | Apparently the retired sea captain , in whose house we were billeted , was willing to provide us with beds ashore , but nothing else . |
| 27 | Omar learnt that he was related to the Sultan , and we hoped that we might persuade him to provide us with a guide to Aussa . |
| 28 | Finally he agreed to provide us with an escort to Aussa . |
| 29 | The general effect of moral rules linked with the category distinction normal/abnormal is to provide us with a sense of social order . |
| 30 | As reports from the Select Committee on Defence have made clear over the past few years , defence cuts are proceeding at such a pace that , if a future Labour Government continued in the same way , we would be left with Securicor and Group 4 to defend our shores and a steamship company to provide us with a substitute for the Royal Navy . |