Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [prep] us the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , via the intermediary of reflected light rays , interaction between the corpuscles of gold and those of our eyes produces in us the idea of yellowness . |
| 2 | The Bible encourages in us the desire for God as the source of human happiness . |
| 3 | But these are some of the things , faith opens to us the door to every blessing that is ours in Christ . |
| 4 | He that will consider that the same fire that at one distance produces in us the sensation of warmth , does at a nearer approach produce in us the far different sensation of pain , ought to bethink himself what reason he has to say , that his idea of warmth which was produced in him by the fire , is actually in the fire , and his idea of pain which the same fire produced in him the same way is not in the fire . |
| 5 | This point Marx made much more explicitly in Capital , Book ‘ [ 378–9 ] : ‘ The simplicity of the productive organism in these self-sufficient communities — which continually reproduce their kind , and , if destroyed by chance , reconstruct themselves in the same locality and under the same name — this simplicity unlocks for us the mystery of the unchangeableness of Asiatic society , which contrasts so strongly with the perpetual dissolutions and reconstructions of Asiatic states . ’ |
| 6 | The nature or our existence hides from us the knowledge of first beginnings which are born of the Nothing ; and the littleness of our being conceals from us the sight of the Infinite . |
| 7 | The nature or our existence hides from us the knowledge of first beginnings which are born of the Nothing ; and the littleness of our being conceals from us the sight of the Infinite . |