Example sentences of "us through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anthropological modes of enquiry are therefore programmed to steer us through the assumptions of police society , so that contradictions no longer remain incomprehensible . |
| 2 | ‘ His factor will be feeling it now , for letting us through the gates . ’ |
| 3 | This surely is the basic English policy of helping and solidarity , which took us through the last war and into the first Labour Government and the welfare state . |
| 4 | It turned out that he 'd inched along the parapet — a thin one about six inches wide — and had a good peek at us through the windows . |
| 5 | We are grateful for a flysheet-pitch-first tent in the Tromsdalen campsite and as we work speedily on its erection , the man in the camp reception hut watches us through the windows . |
| 6 | His Burmese is n't as good as Thubron 's Chinese , but he gets on terms with the locals without patronage , and his wit gets us through the potentially boring bits . |
| 7 | I CA N'T think of anything more likely to get us through the pre-Christmas traumas than a new play by Don Hayworth . |
| 8 | Having said that , this place has been made ‘ valid through prayer ’ and can be seen as a sacrament of God 's coming to us through the demands of human life . |
| 9 | Before we begin , we need to take on board the mystery , a word which will follow us through the five sessions . |
| 10 | In a similar way the Desert Fathers , whose ascetical practices frequently seem to pass into the range of farce , are regarded at least with affection and more often with deep admiration , partly of course because of the delightful anecdotery that has collected around them , and is known to us through the works of writers like Helen Waddell . |
| 11 | A tall muscular Lance-Corporal ( I think ) in a red beret and camouflage suit stepped into the doorway of the coach , gave us all a knowing look , and stepped out and nodded us through the outer gate . |
| 12 | Whoever she was — if she existed at all — she went with us through the mild , cleaned-up sordor of Soho side streets . |
| 13 | That master would seem to have been Taglioni , now filtered to us through the Bournonville version . |
| 14 | He reveals him to us through the operas , which ‘ lay at the core of Mozart 's life as a thinking artist ’ and on which Mr Till has worked as a producer . |
| 15 | Outside the city we passed by a refugee camp where white-faced , unsmiling boys and girls gazed at us through the railings . |
| 16 | The drums lead us through the warren of narrow alleys to a courtyard whose entrance is blocked by a knot of people . |
| 17 | It is estimated that as much as 98% of dioxin intake by humans comes to us through the food chain , notably meat , milk , fish and eggs . |
| 18 | I think he was convinced the green was fast , but maybe he had forgotten we were coming out of the rough and the topspin ran us through the green . |
| 19 | At the Regina station Mr Murray insisted on climbing up into the engine tender to shake hands with and thank the engineer and fireman who had brought us through the storm on this far-from-ordinary journey . |
| 20 | Passers-by are frequent : children to and from school , neighbours shopping , horse riders , and frequently friends who waved to us through the windows . |
| 21 | We went with our newly found friend who took us through the side door to a shed at the back of his premises and showed us what could only be described as treasure — five large horse collars of black leather . |
| 22 | The acquisition of a skill is a tortuous process that takes us through the following sequence : |
| 23 | Rupert Hall 's short history of the college guides us through the years leading up to this event , then on through the 20th century to recent times . |
| 24 | We have to remember that every time we make a purchase , we are converting our assets , which are very compact , and have the ability to maintain us through the interest they accrue , into bulky or fragile items which require maintenance , space and insurance . |
| 25 | As ever , time constraints meant that we could n't try absolutely everything , and so the Bass Centre 's manager Martin Gravestock agreed to guide us through the popular models within our categories , and we chose random examples from there . |
| 26 | Pannick takes us through the details . |
| 27 | It is therefore an immensely energetic , hopeful verb — and because our states of mind are influenced , without our conscious knowledge , by the language that surrounds us , this energy and hope is ‘ fed ’ to us through the verb . |
| 28 | Or at least , we are told so daily by politicians , police , judges , and journalists who speak to us through the media of newspapers and television . |
| 29 | Misha Glenny takes us through the historical background to the war , before giving us a more detailed account of the political manoeuvring and stirring from August 1990 to May 1992 . |
| 30 | They watched us through the holes , and always had two guns pointing directly at us . |