Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] us [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 You are required by law to provide us with the following information : —
2 Surkov signed the bill for our teas , and it was time to board the coach to take us to the late-afternoon theatrical performance .
3 But much exists in their architecture to tell us of the social conditions , wealth , success or decline of towns .
4 So JAMES ‘ FRANK N. FURTER ’ PRICE nips off into town to show us around the latest Zeppelin creation .
5 The amount of a christian 's concern for these issues should not be based upon denominational preference or doctrinal bias , but upon a willingness to allow the compassion of loving God to affect us at the deepest level of our beings .
6 We have the kitchen middens to inform us about the former and the dolmens and passage graves — both resting places and scenes of ancestor worship — to inform us of the latter .
7 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 .
8 This , however , is not the thinking — and it may be presumptuous — that moved BBC2 to hit us between the frontal lobes with Jonathan Miller 's states of mind ( 20 February ) , a series that will march on for 15 weeks in the cause of bringing us up to date with what is happening in psychology .
9 Annabel had said as much to Father Ross the last time he had come to tea , and Father Ross had looked at her sternly over his glasses , saying that if we all understood the way the Universe was run what would there be left for God to tell us on the Last Day .
10 And you know , if we wait for God to baptize us in the Holy Spirit , can I suggest you 'll wait until you die and still not know that experience .
11 In this mailing from the Office you will already see that a National Draw is taking place , this was planned 12 months ago to increase our income , now we have to rely on the profit to see us through the lean times .
12 R4 THIS MORNING SAYS DON HOWE IS ANOTHER LIKELY CANDIDATE TO TAKE US INTO THE NEW YEAR .
13 For example , historical materialism may have a lot to tell us about the political economy of immigrant labour and the unequal exchange between metropolitan capitalism and the third world , but it has proved quite incapable of grasping the micro-foundations of racist ideologies .
14 Onions are the link to take us to the nearby open market where we see these and other vegetables on display .
15 Secondly , he must be ‘ absolutely assured that the High Command was in a position to furnish us with the necessary men and material for the continuance of the offensive , and that not by driblets , but on a large scale ’ Thirdly , the campaign should be halted the moment ‘ we ourselves were losing more heavily and becoming exhausted more rapidly than the enemy ’ .
16 But neither should we enable this sympathy to blind us to the greater truth that more persons suffer , many fatally , from corporate crime than ‘ conventional ’ crime .
17 ‘ Look here : that was in broad daylight over a single strand of wire , not under fire from any machine guns , and with no patrolling goon with a gun to meet us on the other side .
  Next page