Example sentences of "[verb] us [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 You are required by law to provide us with the following information : —
2 If you are currently unable to provide us with the relevant information , please indicate by which date this would be possible .
3 One of the Taï chimpanzee mothers , Ricci , was kind enough to provide us with the first record of observable active teaching ( acceptable to a psychologist ) in a non-human animal in the wild .
4 ‘ Have you booked us into the same hotel , Drew ?
5 If we are intended for great ends , we are called to great hazards ; and , whereas we are given absolute certainty in nothing , we must in all things choose between doubt and inactivity , and the conviction that we are under the eye of One who , for whatever reason , exercises us with the less evidence when He might give us the greater .
6 Goals and values plus energy provide us with the vital information on motivation to perform and it is these variables which provide the best data on how an individual is likely to perform .
7 Legislation helped us with the medical practice booklets .
8 May they preserve us from the hermetic seal .
9 He did n't catch us until the last peak , Creag nan Damh , where a number of ridge-walkers were gathered , basking in the delight of the afternoon and resting on their laurels after a mammoth expedition .
10 This may also mean protecting us from the seamier side of Chinese life .
11 There were many amusing things that happened on the way out , to distract us from the utter boredom of slogging through the Med and down the Red Sea .
12 As a general approach , this presents a very attractive picture of human beings , but we must not , on the other hand , allow this to distract us from the pressing reality of society as an institutionalised , patterned , constraining system .
13 GUIL : He caught us on the wrong foot once or twice , perhaps , but I thought we gained some ground .
14 They do n't direct us to the late survival of a gypsy paradise .
15 ‘ 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 .
16 Our footsteps echoed as though there were other people walking to meet us from the far end .
17 They put us in the deep end with everything that came along , you know , you really had to learn by doing it .
18 They put us in the padded room overnight .
19 So how we 're going to actually interpret that and er act on that here in Manchester and we set out our against er er to achieve that on the simple basis of quality and you 've heard enough about quality over the last two years to not be too surprised that that 's what we 've said was going to give us the cutting edge and perhaps put us in the leading position here in Manchester .
20 PLAYER : Why , we grow rusty and you catch us at the very point of decadence — by this time tomorrow we might have forgotten everything we ever knew .
21 This data set , coupled with extensive satellite observations , will give us for the first time a essentially a snapshot view of the behaviour of the ocean .
22 A is indeed more precise , but only in a trivial sense , for in B does present us with the same referent as in A. If , on the other hand , the lines changed places , so that we read :
23 Meditation can bring us into the immediate presence of God .
24 Even so , these cautionary comments should not dislodge us from the main point .
25 but power us to the next disgrace .
26 Professor Black 's TGAT report , for all its expensive complexity , has saved us from the test-led teaching that seemed at one time inevitable .
27 We expected a big postbag but nothing could have prepared us for the fantastic response we received !
28 Henry Porter doubtless spoke for many when he wrote recently in the Guardian : ‘ Little in the post-war years of decline in Britain has prepared us for the deep sense of unease now being experienced by its people .
29 Nothing had quite prepared us for the sheer presence of king penguins .
30 Our enjoyment of his resourcefulness can ( temporarily ! ) blind us to the moral significance of his actions .
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