Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Recall Fodor 's example of blinking when a good friend goes to poke us in the eye . ) |
| 2 | Finally , I have enclosed membership forms for CPRW and would be delighted to enrol you and anyone else who wants to support us . |
| 3 | Other radicals demanded that foreign policy should no longer be at the mercy of " the ideas , valuations and methods of a sporting aristo-plutocracy " or " the obscure convolutions of diplomatic staffs " , that " there must be an end of the secret diplomacy which has plunged us into this catastrophe " and that the working classes should " lay down our own terms , make our own proclamations , establish our own diplomacy " . |
| 4 | This accursed recession has blinded us to the fact that we are well placed , vis-a-vis our competitors in Europe , to create wealth . |
| 5 | We live in a house of treasure but some disease of the eyes has blinded us so that we search always for vulgar and expensive toys . |
| 6 | Ground elder is said to have been brought to Britain by the Romans as a remedy for gout and has plagued us ever since . |
| 7 | Not only do we feel disorientated with respect to our habits but also there are more objective measurements to indicate that the flight has disorganized us . |
| 8 | Clinical manager Janet Powell said : ‘ We have tried to make our service as accessible as possible so that anyone who needs to see us , whether about themselves , a relative or friend , can do so at a time convenient to them , ’ she said . |
| 9 | No politician could have bettered it : ‘ Experience has taught us the fallibility of the assertion that crime rates amongst those of West Indian origin are no higher than those of the population at large . ’ |
| 10 | Our struggle has taught us also that black workers must never for a moment entertain the thought of separate black unions . |
| 11 | If science has taught us anything , however , it is that the environment is full of uncertainty . |
| 12 | The nitrate problem has taught us that to protect our drinking water , we must monitor the unsaturated zone . |
| 13 | But the doctrine of the extended phenotype has taught us that it need n't have been so . |
| 14 | But , says Hall modestly and realistically , ‘ Drilling has taught us that the first models we worked with were only the simplest of a large number of possibilities that were consistent with the observations . |
| 15 | Modern psychoanalysis has taught us a great deal about the ‘ splitting ’ and division that takes place within our own personality . |
| 16 | ‘ You ca n't just ignore everything that medical science has taught us . ’ |
| 17 | But Christians think that God Himself has taught us how to speak of Him . |
| 18 | The second important lesson which Margaret Donaldson has taught us is the need to consider the situation from the child 's point of view . |
| 19 | What Donaldson has taught us , however , is that at the heart of the experimental situation is a child who is actively trying to make his or her own sense of the situation — and in particular , trying to understand , from what the adult says and does , and from how the materials are manipulated , what the adult 's motives and intentions might be . |
| 20 | Writing of the work of Chardin , whose most profoundly moving paintings are revelations of how trivial , homely , everyday scenes and objects are transformed for us when we see them through the eyes of a great painter , Proust says , " Chardin has taught us that a pear is as living as a woman , a kitchen crock as beautiful as an emerald . " |
| 21 | The Good Book has taught us their image , they must be outcasts with the mark of Cain upon them , Ishmaels for whom the savage wilderness is home till they come to know the wisdom of the Lord . |
| 22 | Only because the experience of tens of thousands of recovered alcoholics has taught us some basic truths about the symptoms of problem drinking — and about ourselves . |
| 23 | Jud. 12.145–6 ) , and its authenticity has been proved beyond any doubt by Elias Bickerman , the scholar who , more than any other , has taught us to understand Judaism in its Hellenistic surroundings ( Syria 25 ( 1946–8 ) , 67–85 ) . |
| 24 | Quantum theory has taught us that the vacuum is not a featureless void but is continuously disturbed by particle-anti-particle pair creation and annihilation and that this endows the vacuum with energy . |
| 25 | Experience has taught us that it has not been necessary to invoke the similar or parallel provisions made for those industries . |
| 26 | The recession that we 've gone through in materials and elsewhere in the economy has taught us , or should have taught us I believe , a very clear lesson and that is that we must end the situation that 's in the building materials industry where our members rely for a reasonable standard of living on bonus earnings the problem being of course that as soon as the recession starts to bite , then the bonus pay becomes very vulnerable to attack and reduction by the employers . |
| 27 | ‘ The Braer has taught us a terrible and forceful lesson and the real tragedy will be if we fail to learn from it … |
| 28 | ‘ The Braer has taught us a terrible and forceful lesson and the real tragedy will be if we fail to learn from it . ’ |
| 29 | In brief he has humbugged us . |
| 30 | Dave Herriot , now 67 , convener of shop stewards at Walkerburn when the mill crashed , said : ‘ Everyone has been sickened by the way the system has treated us . |