Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] us [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burrows and Hunter 's general conclusion is that " from the views given us by local authorities the 1988 Housing Act 's strengthening of the anti-harassment laws have made prosecutions slightly easier for local authorities but , in practice , there is often a failure to prosecute for a range of non-legal reasons " ( p. 41 ) . |
| 2 | None the less , the Committee considered that the instruments were available and the time ripe for achieving this enormous ambition : " We have the advantage given us by then necessity of a new departure among rapidly changing conditions , and by the opportunity of avoiding some causes of past failure " . |
| 3 | We thought all was well until the Battlebus passed us at full speed in the opposite direction . |
| 4 | We went off to parade for lunch ; this meant ten minutes doing press-ups with the Corporal halting us in mid exercise so that we were poised between the ground and the arms-stretched position — as our limbs weakened so people started to slump and collapse , which resulted in kicks and blows . |
| 5 | I put on my coat and we went out to where the wind welcomed us with savage glee . |
| 6 | Suppose , however , that we resisted Wittgenstein 's attempt to push us from weak-kneed scepticism to solipsism ; we find the relevant argument ( see 5.4 ) unconvincing , perhaps . |
| 7 | Paper-thin circumstance separates us from other lives and alliances . |
| 8 | Each of these companies provided us with detailed information of their purchases , which provided the basis for our estimate of ‘ indirect ’ employment described in Section 3 . |
| 9 | As so often in the past , Our Lady blessed us with fine weather so that were able to hold our group procession on Wednesday morning , carrying her statue along the holy mile to the Shrine , singing hymns and reciting the Rosary . |
| 10 | Conflict theorists emphasise that most areas of our lives involve us in institutionalised power relationships , and most of us are subordinate most of the time . |
| 11 | But in the Lawrence passage , there is no such intermediary to deflect us from direct participation in the fictional world . |
| 12 | The task Gomez envisages for the black lesbian returns us to radical humanism , and both Fanon and Gide as important points of reference . |
| 13 | While Mary did her dance practice her husband Ian joined us with other families on some of the excursions . |
| 14 | Have we been expelled from an arcadia of fun where nature provided us with innocent automata , lowing and braying machines for our amusement ? |
| 15 | Maureen Ruchardson , who made a similar appearance in the B is for Book exhibition at the Shipley Art Gallery in Gateshead , continues to cook and beat the fibres of local plants to provide us with hand-made paper . |
| 16 | Mr told us about regional offices , about how many of those were there in nineteen eighty seven ? |
| 17 | The muscular derring-do of our film heroes inspired us to imitative feats of climbing , usually trees ; and their prowess in stalking and sniffing out was echoed in our exploration of sombre , dingy and often damp places . |
| 18 | I told the spaceship to take us to New Earth , the planet of the Star Council . |
| 19 | The Clio reaches us in perfect condition , excepting a few scuffs on the steel wheel trims . |
| 20 | The overall picture presented in his article is a little less clear than it might be , if only because of the multiplicity of interesting observations ( fortunately Bolinger provides us with copious examples ) but it may be summarized as follows : ( a ) Adjectives may qualify either the referent of a noun or its sense without simultaneously applying to the other . |
| 21 | One delegate commented : ‘ It could be used as a trick to keep us in residential care . ’ |
| 22 | The more video recordings we collected , the more we talked to hearing professionals , the greater appeared the gulf between what hearing people told us about deaf signing and what deaf people were actually doing . |
| 23 | This highlight sustains us through successive rooms of the flotsam and jetsam of royal life , not least a sample of the reams of press cuttings . |
| 24 | Nearly all of these are modern chemicals we have thoughtlessly introduced into our cats ' environment to help us in various ways . |
| 25 | A moment later , Dr Livesey , Gray , and Ben Gunn joined us with smoking guns , from among the trees . |
| 26 | Australia blinded us with torrential rain and howling gales and somehow two commercials were shot under sizzling arc-lamps , and wildly flapping plastic sheeting . |
| 27 | French press releases overran our positions , German amendments raked us with deadly fire . |
| 28 | I did n't show you the , the grade and the stage curves because we all know what they look like but what I 'm saying is that by doing the count provides us with additional information on this group of patients . |
| 29 | The problem arises because there is nothing in our day-to-day life to provide us with sufficient exercise . |
| 30 | The parish church helped us in other ways . |