Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] us [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almut Suerbaum , of the university of Munster , has joined us as the new Fellow in German ; as a specialist in Medieval German literature she continues the tradition of her predecessor . |
| 2 | Our footsteps echoed as though there were other people walking to meet us from the far end . |
| 3 | Henry Porter doubtless spoke for many when he wrote recently in the Guardian : ‘ Little in the post-war years of decline in Britain has prepared us for the deep sense of unease now being experienced by its people . |
| 4 | Professor Black 's TGAT report , for all its expensive complexity , has saved us from the test-led teaching that seemed at one time inevitable . |
| 5 | We are particularly grateful to members of the undergraduate years 1965 , who responded to the Librarian 's appeal for items to display at the Gaudy in June , and to Nina Bawden ( Mabey , 1943 ) who has supplied us with a complete set of her novels . |
| 6 | There in Ephesians one three Blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ . |
| 7 | Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ . |
| 8 | We did not really listen , but it helped to put us in the right mood . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Bruno Bettelheim ( 1976 ) — — not without his critics , see , for example , Tucker ( 1984 ) — clearly takes this view , for he has provided us with a detailed study of fairy tales , The uses of enchantment . |
| 11 | He regrets that ‘ language , which adapts itself for the most part only to the common uses of life , has provided us with no single-worded or immediate designation ’ for the impression . |
| 12 | If nothing else , he has provided us with an excellent description of coffin-making , coffin furniture and grave clothes of the mid seventeenth century . |
| 13 | It is a difficult process , since it has to be directed against one 's mental processes , which are designed to protect us from an alien world . |
| 14 | Russian , ultimately , has brought us to a similar endeavour . |
| 15 | Mr Brown 's trip to Harlem has brought us into an urban landscape known to tabloid headline writers as Beirut-on-Hudson , an advance on their earlier versions of , first , Naples-on-Hudson , and then Calcutta-on-Hudson . |
| 16 | But our attitude towards them has to be based on the understanding that they want to transform us into a different party — a party which could never win , and might well not deserve to win , against a Conservative government which itself embraces the social market . |
| 17 | Our discussion of the evolution of the logogen model has led us to the following view of the organisation of the mental lexicon . |
| 18 | Last week he promised to supply us with a written explanation of the way his company had treated Debbie , but it never arrived . |
| 19 | ‘ By pushing the boat out unilaterally , ’ says Weir Group 's Ron Garrick , ‘ the Government has put us at a severe disadvantage compared with our German and American counterparts . |
| 20 | Orwell has left us with a graphic description of a typical reader , the elderly lady who always took out the same books , year-in year-out — a thing not possible incidentally in today 's rapid-turnover public libraries — with the word , ‘ I do love a drop of Dell ! ’ referring to the popular writer Ethel M. Dell . |
| 21 | The age of the PC has left us with a messy low grade grumbling crisis . |
| 22 | Their joint commissions reached well over a hundred , and though by the time the Dolls ' House was created , Miss Jekyll was nearly eighty and practically blind , being asked to design the garden gave her immense satisfaction , and has left us with an unaltered glimpse of this period of England 's gardening history . |
| 23 | Although my household and ARP duties did not allow of a visit to the Western hospital some folk came to see us at the main post , and laugh at the fact that the Steward of the hospital had had to send the last of his well-trained clerks to Egypt to help count the number of prisoners and try to get the provision for them in some sort of order . |
| 24 | Well our company decided to send us for a fucking first aid course and this , it 's er most embarrassing on this particular night we 'd stopped in er in the Chapel Hill in Lisburn |
| 25 | This feedback will be used to guide us in the possible uses of the tape when we come to launching the 4th edition in early 1990 , which will be the published version of the tape . |
| 26 | One lady , daughter of the proprietor of Jura said to the Captain — " Captain , do you mean to say you are going to turn us off the only nice place in the steamer and put sheep in it ? " |
| 27 | Surely the language of religion is being used to direct us towards a new kind of philosophy , for which no language of its own exists . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Yes , and I remember the tanks moving down Whitehall ; or at any rate I remember the picture I had of them in my head as Tilly Tilling , in the middle of a history class , suddenly began to tell us about the military putsch that was coming . |
| 30 | We expected a big postbag but nothing could have prepared us for the fantastic response we received ! |