Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] us [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were soon to discover that Masha might be in no condition to set us on any track . |
| 2 | Note We will make payments as stated above provided ( a ) the injured clients notify us of any claim for personal injury within 3 months of their return from holiday ; ( b ) they assign to Horizon Holidays Ltd. any rights against a supplier or any other person or party they may have relating to the claim ; and ( c ) they agree to co-operate fully with us should we or our insurers wish to enforce those rights which have been assigned to us or to which we are subrogated . |
| 3 | This year we are asking a selected sample of readers to help us with this process . |
| 4 | As for the Chancellor himself , Mr Parkinson said : ‘ I think he has both the backbone and the brains and the determination to see us through this difficulty . ’ |
| 5 | Bourdieu 's work on the new middle classes ( what he calls the new petit bourgeoisie ) and Goldthorpe et al. 's study of the service class 's social mobility provide us with some clues . |
| 6 | Instead of prayers to protect us from these sources of guilt , shame and terror Freud suggested that dreams took over , transforming the Gothic horrors into cryptic symbols only interpretable by psycho-analysts , the new priests of nineteenth century rationalism . |
| 7 | What is n't is A Winter Tan 's capacity to move us in another way , in particular with a riveting and lacerating piece of acting that underlines and illustrates its argument . |
| 8 | John Betjeman leaves us with this vignette : |
| 9 | The apes provide us with much information concerning possible roots of sociable behaviour in man . |
| 10 | Books are essential and it is a sad day when financial troubles force us to this action , ’ he said . |
| 11 | It is often part of an author 's technique to leave us in some doubt as to what precisely is going on in the fictional world , as Katherine Mansfield does here . |
| 12 | That she , who has always denied any further consequences of their evil — ‘ A little water clears us of this deed : /How easy is it then ! ’ |
| 13 | What with the cacophony of sounds assailing us from all sides and the crowd of shoppers jostling and pressing between and around us , this reply may not give him a very clear indication of where I am standing . |
| 14 | Jesus releases us from this addiction by revealing himself as the willing servant , humbled to the point of death , submitting his will to the will of God . |
| 15 | My own daughter , God preserve us from such wickedness . ’ |
| 16 | Why does the Lord bring us into this land , to fall by the sword ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ God save us from another war , ’ Mrs Sanderson murmured , a glance taking in her two sons . |
| 18 | Life was not quite a state of nature or a question of the survival of the fittest , but in times of no food parcels the partition separating us from that state was unpleasantly thin and even at the best of times it was thin enough to be able to hear most of what went on on the other side . |
| 19 | The implementation of policy leads us into many aspects of nature conservation not necessarily just on the Council 's own land but as you work for Fife Regional Council you will understand the ramifications of local authority influence . |
| 20 | We intend to place the money in our building fund and it is also a faith-building experience for us to see God blessing us in this way . |
| 21 | But God wanted us in that society and we now have a choice . |
| 22 | Erm you know any anyone we met and and spoke to I think some people held us in some kind of suspicion , but a lot of people were glad er to have the er you know have the company and erm that were were available to them . |
| 23 | With another black look , the man led us to that door over there . |
| 24 | The voyage of the good ship ‘ Ceilidh ’ in September provided us with many lessons in seamanship and Christian living . |
| 25 | With our daughter Sara here too , we were ten of us in the house , with Barney and his family and his in-laws joining us for several parties . |
| 26 | This is when we started forming consumer groups and demanding watchdogs to protect us in this shopping jungle . |
| 27 | As Hilary Land reminds us in another article ( Land , 1980 ) Ada Nield Chew , a radical suffragist , wrote that women should eschew the role of the ‘ domestic tabby cat ’ and that ‘ marriage and motherhood should not be for sale . |
| 28 | In the 80s , the banks , with poor management , had conspired with government to get us into this situation . |
| 29 | I was beginning to think that we 'd missed the boat , even though we knew in our heart of hearts that the Lord wanted us in some form of full-time capacity . |
| 30 | For one thing it is for the Holy Spirit to tell us in that hour what we are to say , and for another thing the people we prove to be in that hour will be determined , not by our thinking about that hour , but by our thinking and living in this hour . |