Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] us [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ends : ‘ Will the tight budget bring us to a grinding halt ? |
| 2 | In the course of dealing with those who demanded excessively high wages or who broke their contracts , the courts provided us with a great deal of evidence about wage rates , and continuity and frequency of employment . |
| 3 | Notice also how these skills provide us with a timeless wisdom , applicable to all people-situations anywhere . |
| 4 | Flows of assistance between generations provide us with an important example where , in practice , support is often one way , and where apparently this is regarded as quite proper . |
| 5 | The Jews provide us with the single most illuminating incident of the episcopate of Avitus . |
| 6 | John and his team have already extracted considerable concessions from the Inland Revenue , which means that the majority of us will be able to continue as before , i.e. we will be able to satisfy the Inland Revenue that the majority of priests do not have the liability to tax on their income from the Church , without the need for the Inland Revenue to meet us on an individual basis . |
| 7 | Here our itinerary takes us along the new section of the road , rather surprisingly signposted to Fort William , and brings us to the first railway so far seen , at Strathcarron Station . |
| 8 | Various speakers congratulated us on the marvellous work we had done over the past few months . |
| 9 | What do these syndromes tell us about the language-processing system as it exists in intact brains ? |
| 10 | Our nervous Iraqi guards kept us inside the small bungalow that was ‘ home ’ for the 12 of us . |
| 11 | After climbing to the top of the largest crater , the boat took us to a small bay on Palea Kameni where you can swim to the hot springs and delve into the orange mud of the sea bed , supposedly wonderful for your skin ! |
| 12 | The light dazzled us for a bare ten years with its brilliance , before it was extinguished . |
| 13 | Scotland international coach Roxburgh admitted : ‘ The loss of Richard presents us with a real problem . |
| 14 | We slanted across the river , the wind carrying us against the current , and coasted up the far bank . |
| 15 | The programme provides us with a quaint selection of Sons , Brides and other relations of Frankenstein , all based on some English lady 's knock-off of Rabbi Judah Loewe and the golem of Prague . |
| 16 | David Goldsmith treats us to a bumper four-page collection , including matting , bindings , boots and bleepers |
| 17 | In particular , Oakeshott 's conception provides us with an insightful critique of Dicey 's method in Law of the Constitution . |
| 18 | At its best , pluralist-orientated research provides us with an idealised description , in this case of the backward region , which puts certain features in very high relief ; in Banfield 's study , these features are mainly related to individual attitudes . |
| 19 | Is it not outrageous that so much British taxpayers ' money should have been spent trying to suppress a book which in part told us about the treacherous activities of the security services in trying to undermine the democratically elected Government of Harold Wilson ? |
| 20 | The texts of Roman law bring us to the intriguing conclusion that by late classical times the only person who acquired property under trust and with it an unassailable title was the bona fide purchaser for value without notice . |
| 21 | Occasional cairns led us to a challenging rocky descent into another forest , full of rhododendron blossom , pine scents and birdsong . |
| 22 | The Sandfords provided us with an elderly Amhara called Habta Mariam as cook . |
| 23 | Yet , despite the rapid growth of these more recent subjects , history retains its traditional importance in higher education , since its social , cultural , economic and political concerns provide us with an interdisciplinary approach to problems that includes the perspectives and many of the methods of the various social sciences , yet also seeks to establish a broader , overall assessment of the issues it examines . |
| 24 | Turtles provide us with a different example . |
| 25 | You are required by law to provide us with the following information : — |
| 26 | An unexpected gap in the mountains beckoned us to a silent lake fed by waterfalls and surrounded by woods with banks of moss , lichens and fungi alive with lemmings scurrying among holes and tree roots . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The ride home took us through the Red Light district ( not that I noticed ) . |
| 29 | The Feldwebel took us to a German Red Cross canteen . |
| 30 | The neck button disappeared — but not the buttonhole — and today a wedding boutonnière reminds us of the sporting ancestry of the coat . |