Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] us [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Jews provide us with the single most illuminating incident of the episcopate of Avitus . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Various speakers congratulated us on the marvellous work we had done over the past few months . |
| 4 | What do these syndromes tell us about the language-processing system as it exists in intact brains ? |
| 5 | Our nervous Iraqi guards kept us inside the small bungalow that was ‘ home ’ for the 12 of us . |
| 6 | We slanted across the river , the wind carrying us against the current , and coasted up the far bank . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | You are required by law to provide us with the following information : — |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The ride home took us through the Red Light district ( not that I noticed ) . |
| 12 | The neck button disappeared — but not the buttonhole — and today a wedding boutonnière reminds us of the sporting ancestry of the coat . |
| 13 | Surkov signed the bill for our teas , and it was time to board the coach to take us to the late-afternoon theatrical performance . |
| 14 | The Ego is our internal saboteur , our own worst enemy , which con fines us to the dark cellars of our mind . |
| 15 | But much exists in their architecture to tell us of the social conditions , wealth , success or decline of towns . |
| 16 | Analysis of the returns leads us to the following conclusions : |
| 17 | Or the planet gets it ! ’ our jolly NME team jive us from the inside back cover of a recent ish . |
| 18 | ‘ The threat from a nuclear war forced us in the post-war period to think in terms of war destroying the whole planet . |
| 19 | What does this survey of the impact of the second wave tell us about the likely impact of the third wave in the 1990s and the consequences for developing managers ? |
| 20 | The Quartet can be read as a ‘ simulacrum of simulation ’ in this sense : it reveals the simulated nature of the projections , speculations , and reconstructions fed us by the oral media and the role of story-telling in all so-called ‘ objective ’ compilations of factual information . |
| 21 | What you have seen today may well be the best lesson you will ever learn of the difficulties facing us in the outside world . |
| 22 | These studies tell us about the broad pattern of movement between school and work . |
| 23 | All the old historians when mentioning Hailing tell us of the old Manor of Langridge or Bavents , each one describes the antiquity of the Manor from Adam de Bavent to the various owners of their period until we reach William Baker . |
| 24 | The festival days , the sacred plays and dance , the processions which move jangling through the villages at night quicken us to the hidden rhythms by which the island lives . |
| 25 | The next day took us past the quarter-way mark , and brought us within seven miles of In Salah . |
| 26 | In contemporary Britain it seems almost impossible to go a single day without hearing , from some quarter or another , a senior policeman hectoring us on the deteriorated condition of public morals , while assuming the right to deliver homespun history lessons in which the past is lovingly remembered as a time of harmony . |
| 27 | Our competitors who use their better provision of education to beat us at the economic game — show us how a slender force of educated human resources , our current situation , is no basis for technical expertise in volume , for high intellect in commerce , for leadership quality in management , or for any other human component of economic success . |
| 28 | These questions take us to the very heart not only of recent theological debate about Barth , but of the inner problematic of the entire development of modern theology as we are tracing it . |
| 29 | Our crewmates warned us about the Biranese girls ' reputation as practitioners of a dangerous form of magic which could trap a man on their island for ever ; then they disappeared ashore into the backstreets . |
| 30 | Other member states bypassed us on the single currency by giving us an opt-out , for which the Prime Minister had to pay at Maastricht — and for which the British people will have to pay even more in the months ahead — and they bypassed us on the social chapter by simply going ahead without us . |