Example sentences of "us with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do n't you think , ’ he began to plead , ‘ that sleeping together automatically provides us with a kind of contract ? ’ |
| 2 | Roland Smith has provided us with a fascinating and interesting book that should whet the appetite of many hill walkers and will certainly provide a wealth of useful background information when planning a walk to some of the ‘ Great Viewpoints ’ of Britain . |
| 3 | Like so many of Lonsdale 's ladies she is surprising ; yet she speaks to us with a directness that wipes out the centuries . |
| 4 | ‘ This particularly rich pagan cemetery still contains skeletons and grave goods in good condition and will provide us with a wealth of information on the health and culture of the sixth-century inhabitants of Cambridgeshire , ’ Mr Malim said . |
| 5 | She presents us with a glistening floor bordered by a number of bells hanging from long ropes , each lit from above to produce its own pool of light . |
| 6 | As he was moving away , he paused , and looking round at us with a smile on his face , he said , ‘ Oh yes , and a direct hit on the newly-dug shithouse … shit everywhere ! ’ |
| 7 | The church of St Clement Danes , the RAF Memorial on the Victoria Embankment , the Runnymede Air Forces Memorial and the thousands of graves carefully tended by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission provide us with a structure of remembrance . |
| 8 | The ‘ Dust in the air suspended ’ seems to present us with a barren desert of death . |
| 9 | He also presents us with a fairly strict unilineal theory of evolution , ( if we forget about the difference between the New and the Old Worlds ) . |
| 10 | ‘ My God , ’ said Wexford in disgust , ‘ I just hope you have n't landed us with a female Tichborne claimant . ’ |
| 11 | And if you will help us with a donation today , I know we can get the action we need . |
| 12 | Lord , hear us : And bless us with a living faith . |
| 13 | Alexander Fabrics kindly supplied us with a combination of cotton gingham , poplin , crepe de Chine , taffeta and silk dupion . |
| 14 | Commander Michael Porter , Tory chairman of the council 's education committee , said he had hoped for a decision that would ‘ provide us with a way to achieve the best possible education for pupils in south Reading , allowing us to set up a super new school designed for the demands of the 21st century , and a sixth form college . ’ |
| 15 | This lascivious hankering for the impossible , this lusty speculation and mystification , what the Vermorels call ‘ consumer mysticism ’ , all of this was written off by Punk , which left us with a shame about worship , made it a pad of its task to negotiate equal terms between audience and artist . |
| 16 | He used to tell us with a sparkle of pride of enormous weights lifted by him in his youth , and of fights where he felled a man like a bullock . |
| 17 | the ordering of the strata ( layers ) of sediment on an archaeological site provides us with a relative dating technique . |
| 18 | Some are based upon the effects of seasonal change and are therefore directly related to the orbit of the earth about the sun , which provides us with a useful unit of time , the year . |
| 19 | The Gospels present us with a picture of Jesus of Nazareth searching out those left on the edge , and bringing them into the heart of God 's kingdom . |
| 20 | ‘ They 'd run over us with a steamroller if they felt like it . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ They 've got no consideration , ’ Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke stormed as she met us with a supply of dusters and aerosols and impregnated cloths . |
| 22 | If we persist in interpreting virginity and motherhood only in a physical sense this leaves us with a problem , and she once again becomes a burden by being an impossible act to follow . |
| 23 | Additionally , a horse that enjoys eating a wider range of foodstuffs — alfalfa , oats , horse mixes , apples , carrots , and so on — provides us with a larger range of inducements to motivate it to do what we want as well as rewards for when it does do what we ask . |
| 24 | Last week he promised to supply us with a written explanation of the way his company had treated Debbie , but it never arrived . |
| 25 | ‘ We are happy to support local schemes which wo n't worsen our mainstream business , and while hitherto we 've waited for passenger executives or consortiums to come to us with a proposal , we might in the future consider taking more initiative . ’ |
| 26 | And it is also extremely worrying for those of us with a wardrobe full of abbreviated skirts , and abbreviated bank accounts to match . |
| 27 | He added his own comments that Ashby 's tributes to voluntaryism present us with a very serious challenge — to the professional to be patient in service , to aid and abet but not to take over from the voluntary worker any of the tasks or decisions which he should do and make : to the voluntary worker to recognise that the only sure safeguard against injury to the mainstream of voluntaryism is that that mainstream , which is himself , shall never slacken . |
| 28 | Recent developments of Darwinian theory provide us with a new and deeper understanding of the processes of natural selection . |
| 29 | And yet inspir 'd us with a thinking Soul , |
| 30 | The treaty of Brest-Litovsk , which the military superiority of Germany forced upon the young Soviet State at the end of the year , revealed the limits of its power : ‘ The past keeps fast hold of us , ’ Lenin observed gloomily at the 8th Party Congress , ‘ grasps us with a thousand tentacles , and does not allow us to take a single forward step , or compels us to take these steps badly . ’ |