Example sentences of "[verb] us [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wrangham 's work goes far to provide us with the essential spatial structuring that underlies this flexibility . |
| 2 | Unfortunately none of the five provide us with the expected objective measure of pain which we could apply with confidence to adults or to babies or to animals . |
| 3 | This , and the quoted safe level for serum bismuth ( 10–50 µg/l ) reassures us of the low toxic potential for this enema . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , these counts do provide us with the best available source of information about the common birds of Sussex woodland . |
| 5 | This was a sort of celebration meal , as word had reached us of the successful British attack on Caen . |
| 6 | If we slip up they 'll all join us in the wide blue yonder or whatever . |
| 7 | This they have plainly not been able to do and yet they still try and bounce us along the same old route through their friends in the media . |
| 8 | He warned us of the considerable social upset that these advances might cause . |
| 9 | With an agreeable mixture of personal and scientific detail , Robertson tells us about the early Australian work on radio emission from the Sun , the planets and the mysterious radio ‘ stars ’ ( point sources ) and explains how the 21-cm line from interstellar hydrogen was used to map the spiral arms of our Galaxy ; he also describes the development of the solar radio spectrograph by Paul Wild and of the high resolution ‘ cross ’ antennae by Bernard Mills and Wilbur Christiansen . |
| 10 | So the mysteries of migration routes , which prompted this brief foray into the biological and geological past , is only one of a myriad miraculous facets of nature , of the greater Mind , that tells us of the great planetary drama in which life has existed , maintained within such finely balanced parameters , for hundreds of millions , if not billions of years . |
| 11 | The man forgot one issue , the European Monetary Union , it was Mr Major that took us into the Economic Monetary Union at the wrong way , he took us in on a political decision on the last day of a Labour Party Conference in Blackpool and he 's forgotten that . |
| 12 | The ride home took us through the Red Light district ( not that I noticed ) . |
| 13 | At the end of our golden period in the 1930s a 2–0 victory over Ditchford Colliery took us past the Preliminary Preliminary First Qualifying Round , although we faltered in the following Preliminary First Qualifying Round , losing 6–2 to Bonsford Hartley of the South FC . |
| 14 | However , they do not tell us about the complex subjective processes which this involved . |
| 15 | One lady , daughter of the proprietor of Jura said to the Captain — " Captain , do you mean to say you are going to turn us off the only nice place in the steamer and put sheep in it ? " |
| 16 | In the Miller 's Prologue , the Miller 's supposed drunkenness should not blind us to the measured good sense and balance of the mind implied within the character who speaks as the Miller . |
| 17 | ‘ The Palace wants to portray us in the worst possible light . |
| 18 | What I am going to talk about next is erm I 'll just mention that , about another 5 minutes , I think , will get us to the other great bit of work that poor old Edward Heath had to do in St Aldate 's , which again , that gives us a great deal about the insight as to what it was like there . |
| 19 | Goody points out that the written form of language releases us from the linear experiential mode : ‘ the fact that it takes a visual form means that one can escape from the problem of the succession of events in time , by backtracking , skipping , looking to see who-done-it before we know what it is they did . |
| 20 | To get us to the sustainable financial position I have just referred to , we have accelerated the pace of implementing our strategy of focusing our assets , increasing our cost-efficiency and improving our performance . |
| 21 | The point I am making now is that , even if we look on the dark side and assume that individual man is fundamentally selfish , our conscious foresight — our capacity to simulate the future in imagination — could save us from the worst selfish excesses of the blind replicators . |
| 22 | Surely those were good questions which need answering , and to abandon the community interpretation deprives us of the only possible answer . |
| 23 | Culdrose Radar cleared us through the inactive low level danger area and agreed that we would follow the coastline through the combined MATZs . |
| 24 | The main quibble about classing us in the same generic clade is that Homo sapiens was named before the chimpanzee genus , Pan ; in fact chimps should properly be called the other two kinds of human . |
| 25 | Surkov signed the bill for our teas , and it was time to board the coach to take us to the late-afternoon theatrical performance . |
| 26 | Onions are the link to take us to the nearby open market where we see these and other vegetables on display . |
| 27 | I roll a joint and turn off the bright neon , leaving us with the sultry lilac glow of a smaller and older lamp , the first I ever bought . |
| 28 | But he added : ‘ It is not evident that most of our partners often perceive us in the same constructive light as we see ourselves . ’ |
| 29 | Back in the main town , we explored twisting alleys which eventually led us to the old Frankish quarter . |
| 30 | In Britain of the 1960s this challenge of the Welfare State is not isolated : it is but one aspect of the challenge which confronts us throughout the whole political field . |